Local garage saying they will probably fail the car with Dubmeisters pressed plates on!!

IM NOT HAPPY

Anyone else had this happen yet

1 tech from the garage said he would fail it straight off

2nd said if it doesnt reflect its a fail!!

DAM IT

police interceptors had this issue on a show.

They said the law says them must be plastic (for the age of the car) and use the correct typeface as per vosa/dvla and show the plate markers details.

They gave the driver a notice to rectify.

They're clamping down on black silver plates too, unless your car was made when black pressed plates were in force (70's or earlier).

I'd take the failure up with dubmeisters, and if they claim are legal put this in writing with covering evidence. If they won't or say they are show plates, then ask where they make this specifically clear and get them to pay for your retest!

The ones on my car are the ones from the "legal pressplate" group buy..

Kinda false advertising if this is so...

If your invoice clearly states UK legal, then show this to the MOT station and get their response in writing.

It can be legal to have pressed plates, but they must display the relevant BS number that specifies the reflectivaty of them. If that number and the other bits are not present or the lettering is incorrect then the Tester is quite correct in failing the car.

Might be useful:

http://www.theplatemarket.com/display_of_registration_numbers.php

Edited 5 October, 201015 yr by Llanigraham

Got a pass with my plates on Scot!!!!!!

I'd change your test station

There's an official word on it from Dubmeister posted somewhere on a forum.

It was a big discussion awhile back about it and the plates are legal (also as advertised on DUbmiesters website)

They do have the BS number on them and the Postcode. *Check

i dont see any reason to fail the plates

The garage is a VW garage who is doin the test.. when it can be slotted in (where my other half works)

Results will be given soon when test finally takes place

Here we go http://the-corrado.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=90428#p1044078

Re: Acrylic pressed plates

Postby Leonard » March 15th, 2010, 10:05 pm

From Dubmeister:

Our plates have been developed with a large plate manufacturer that supplies for example official Netherlands plates and serves other countries and manufactures to many differing standards world wide.. They don't have to be tested by BSI, just be designed to comply, and actually comply if tested, and this is what we have done.

The BSAU 145d regulation has been finely gone through by our manufacturer and relevant sections have be exceeded or met, including a section specifically designed to exclude metal plates, which necessitated a subtle exclusive redesign of the metal base plate and different material to 'regular' Euro show plates, as well as altered letter tooling and lastly permanent laser marking of supplier info and maker info and the standard they are made to.

They have been fully tested by our manufacturer and pre tested against the BS145d standard by the German DIN institute – (in case any major flaws we hadn’t picked up on), who have set up testing environments for BSAU145d now, are testing and will award a certificate to this effect on completion.

We are fully satisfied they comply or exceed BSAU145d and have been told by a British Standards institute they can be marked as such if we are sure they comply by cross referencing DIN regs that duplicate/exceed sections of BS145d and amendments we have made, and they offered additional help if we needed, which we don't.

No UK authority has the knowledge or means to test plates other than British Standard Institute. No Police or local authority can challenge a user as they are marked correctly as to comply, and that’s the end of it as far as prosecution of the user.

If they want to test them they would have to send off to BSI and pay the £6000 to £15,000 fee...and result would be they pass anyway.

Our dealers/suppliers take proper relevant driver/vehicle ID which is a major part of plates being legal, correct lettering and physical plate spec alone is not sufficient as prevention of vehicle cloning is probably the main issue in 'illegal' plates and prosecutions.

So, we welcome any test to disprove our claim, which is that they do 100% fully comply when supplied by a DVLA registered licence plate supplier.

Just had results.. They passed.. with the test of .. will it reflect lol

Those are some beautiful plates.

Oooohhhh, i might get a set.