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Yellow rear number plate (Mod Note Post #169)

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    #32
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    KevRossi wrote: »
    I put them on a Sprinter van once a few years back as I was advised to do so by the site foreman. Was working in Belfast, out near Holywood. Had to pick up and drop off people at Belfast Central train station in the morning and evenings, then go out to a B&B on the Antrim Rd.

    Drove Dublin - Belfast Monday morning and back on a Friday afternoon. Van was usually parked up in Dublin at the weekends.

    Did it for 5 months, I was never stopped once by the Gardai. PSNI asked me once about the plates, when I explained it, he said 'fair enough', and let me go. That was in Belfast City Centre.

    To be honest they make no difference, the people you need to be careful of aren't that thick and will spot a southern a mile away..,


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    #33
    Esel
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    To be honest they make no difference, the people you need to be careful of aren't that thick and will spot a southern a mile away..,
    By the paper on the windscreen.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #34
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    If you were that worried, rental van would have been best option....


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    #35
    [Deleted User]
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    At first glance someone might not notice. That might be enough.


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    #36
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Me and my cousin used to punch each other in the arm when we'd see a car with a yellow reg. Did anyone else do that?

    "Yellow reg, no return"

    "Ouch, I said no return"


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    #37
    muffler
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    .anon. wrote: »
    Me and my cousin used to punch each other in the arm when we'd see a car with a yellow reg. Did anyone else do that?
    No. I think you need help :pac:


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    #38
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Its a big thing with the young bucks....

    A lot tend to have mats as mud flaps and a CB ariel too....

    As mentioned smoke marks and puffs out the rear and many tend to be lowered to the point of beyond dangerous.

    Only really see it outside Dublin. Rarely see boy racer type vehicles in Dublin anymore.


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    #39
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    GT89 wrote: »
    Only really see it outside Dublin. Rarely boy racer type vehicles in Dublin anymore.

    I do see it a lot in the whest....

    An odd time in Dublin.


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    #40
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    I do see it a lot in the whest....

    An odd time in Dublin.

    I've seen a bit in the midlands as well


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    #41
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    To be honest they make no difference, the people you need to be careful of aren't that thick and will spot a southern a mile away..,
    I like seeing the yellow plates. It mean that I wont give Nordies or Nordie wannabees any leeway and they can wait to enter the line of traffic


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    #42
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Felt spec. Magherafelt spec. Been around donkeys.


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    #43
    bobbyy gee
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭bobbyy gee


    they are illegal and can get you 5000 fine

    https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html


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    #44
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    :o
    kravmaga wrote: »
    NI and UK are both on rear yellow reg plates.

    3 Letters on left rear yellow plate is NI.

    4 Letters on left rear yellow plate is UK.

    No you're wrong ......

    All UK plates are yellow, with NI plates having three letters on the left, while GB plates have two letters on the left followed by two digits, then the remainder of the plate, either way, UK plates are yellow and ROI plates are not (normally) yellow.


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    #45
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Why do people change their rear number plates to yellow ones? Irish cars with say a DL reg but its yellow. The white plates look better so why change them? do they want to be British or what is the story?

    Either west brits or the clowns assume the speed cameras cannot read them


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    #46
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,805 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    From reading this, it appears that yellow isn’t exactly legal....

    https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html


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    #47
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Strumms wrote: »
    From reading this, it appears that yellow isn’t exactly legal....

    https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html

    What is legal in Ireland is white front and red on rear but that's very old, then we have the black/silver which you see on the army trucks and jeeps.... Then we have the EU style and that's it.


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    #48
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Ive seen a few old VRs with the yellow reg with Irish numbers.
    I just thought it was a boy-racer type thing.


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    #49
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    More likely to be a NI reg car.
    ... different to an English reg.

    No it said DL in the middle. It was a donegal reg. I was stopped in traffic so had a load of time to look at it.


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    #50
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Amirani wrote: »
    I'd say it's a border county thing where they used a print shop in Northern Ireland that only had yellow plates.

    Front plates on UK cars are white.


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    #51
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Also UK plates must have a garage or point of sale on them.


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    #52
    JustAThought
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    fin12 wrote: »
    No it said DL in the middle. It was a donegal reg. I was stopped in traffic so had a load of time to look at it.

    I thought it was to do with where the car is registered. White front and back = RofI registered and taxed. White front plate and yellow back plate = N. Ire. Yellow back & front = Uk ref car. Of course it also used mean speeding tickets, penalty points and parking fines were uninforcible. I think they may have a token gesture to address that now.

    It helped a lit more before the ‘new’ regs and NCT rules on ‘standardised’ plates & fonts were brought in.

    I usually taKe it to mean unconvictable unless a really messy incident.


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    #53
    FanadMan
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    It's a boy racer thing - they think that it is cool. It's def not west brit thing. Most of the lads I know locally that have them are the ones that'd be singing rebel songs in the pub (when that was a thing).

    Don't know if the Gardai can do anything about them other than warn the drivers that they are illegal. Think it's dealt with by Revenue.


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    #54
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    FanadMan wrote: »
    It's a boy racer thing - they think that it is cool. It's def not west brit thing. Most of the lads I know locally that have them are the ones that'd be singing rebel songs in the pub (when that was a thing).

    Don't know if the Gardai can do anything about them other than warn the drivers that they are illegal. Think it's dealt with by Revenue.

    Fcpn


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    #55
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭xabi


    JustAThought wrote: »
    I thought it was to do with where the car is registered. White front and back = RofI registered and taxed. White front plate and yellow back plate = N. Ire. Yellow back & front = Uk ref car. Of course it also used mean speeding tickets, penalty points and parking fines were uninforcible. I think they may have a token gesture to address that now.

    It helped a lit more before the ‘new’ regs and NCT rules on ‘standardised’ plates & fonts were brought in.

    I usually taKe it to mean unconvictable unless a really messy incident.

    GB is white front and yellow rear, same as NI.


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    #56
    Trouser Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭Trouser Snake


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Also UK plates must have a garage or point of sale on them.

    You learn something new every day! Had it down as advertising, what's the real reason?


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    #57
    jmlad2020
    Registered Users Posts: 691 ✭✭✭jmlad2020


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Why do people change their rear number plates to yellow ones? Irish cars with say a DL reg but its yellow. The white plates look better so why change them? do they want to be British or what is the story?

    .....yes im sure they would just love to pledge allegiance to the Queen tomorrow. Such an obvious giveaway when they have a yellow number plate with an Irish Reg. *sarcasm*


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    #58
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    jmlad2020 wrote: »
    .....yes im sure they would just love to pledge allegiance to the Queen tomorrow. Such an obvious giveaway when they have a yellow number plate with an Irish Reg. *sarcasm*

    Well if u live in the republic, you are supposed to have an Irish reg on your vehicle so might just come down to that. Doesn’t mean they don’t consider themselves British.


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    #59
    Grab All Association
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    Soup slurpers


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    #60
    Snails pace
    Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Snails pace


    Aliyah Rapping Plantain wrote: »
    I've seen loads of them. Usually youngfellas in a ****box jetta with some cringworthy stickers on the back windscreen, lowered as low as it could possibly go, super bright and out of focus HID kit lights, tinted windows darker than night and them driving around with a hood up thinking they're harder than a quarry..

    Sounds like me when I was younger except it was a van and I didn't bother with the stickers. Still actually have the CB radio and all.


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    #61
    colm_mcm
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    bobbyy gee wrote: »
    they are illegal and can get you 5000 fine

    https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html

    Except nobody’s ever been fined €5000


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