How should new car's on trade plates be driven? Today on the m25 saw a new Oct'y est Tdi 105 elegance in silver, being driven at over 80mph for about 12 miles :eek: I thought they had a limit 60mph when on trade plates. As the car wasn't even registered i thought it a bit cheeky to drive it that fast. so if anyone has got an Silver Oct'y Elegance on order from a south east dealer ask how it got to the dealers.

How should new car's on trade plates be driven? Today on the m25 saw a new Oct'y est Tdi 105 elegance in silver, being driven at over 80mph for about 12 miles :eek: I thought they had a limit 60mph when on trade plates. As the car wasn't even registered i thought it a bit cheeky to drive it that fast. so if anyone has got an Silver Oct'y Elegance on order from a south east dealer ask how it got to the dealers.

I was given to understand a vehicle with trade plates was driven on a motor traders insurance, which covers them for any vehicle they are in possesion of.

The way the vehicle is driven is governed by the same rules as you or I have over us.

I was given to understand a vehicle with trade plates was driven on a motor traders insurance' date=' which covers them for any vehicle they are in possesion of.

The way the vehicle is driven is governed by the same rules as you or I have over us.[/quote']

That's what I thought and there's no info on DVLA to contradict that, as far as I can find......

Chris

I think the same rules apply as ordinary plated cars, otherwise I'd have been done speeding numerous times whilst out on test drives with trade plates.

When I was a delivery driver for a Ford dealer (many years ago) I got reported to my boss by a Ford Motor Co exec who saw me giving a new car some welly on the M5. D'oh!

That wasn't really as bad as the time (working for the same dealer) I was driving a pre-PDI'd, pre-tuning, Fiesta on the M5 in roadworks on a very hot day when I was very tired, and fell asleep ... at 50mph. :help: Fortunately I woke up at the right moment and yanked things back into some semblance of normality.

The boss was strangely reluctant to let me out in the Escort RS Turbos (the fastest cars they had at the time) after the first incident. :(

Im sure there is a speed limit in force when trade plates are in use too? Unless I am mistaken, which is normally the case.

A guy down the road from me opened a car import business a couple of years ago specialising in Alfa's and and ran it from a local mechanic's garage .

He would round up 2 or 3 mechanics once every couple of weeks and drive them to Dublin where upon these guys would drive the new motors up to his place near Belfast (about 100 miles) on 'trade plates'.

I was chatting to him one day when 2 new spiders arrived. We could see them in the distance and they appeared to be racing each other along the B roads. They raced into the car yard, spun around and parked up either side of an old rusted Fiat 121 and a Ford Fiesta which were sitting side by side in the corner of the site.

The drivers jumped out and headed into the workshop with sheepish looks on their faces. Then the unmarked cop car had been following them pulled in, did a slow loop of the site, stopped, looked at the two alfas parked beside the bangers and drove out.

Afterwards I noticed that the reg on one alfa was the same as that on the Fiat 121. The reg on the other alfa matched that on the Fiesta. He'd been using plates off scrap cars instead of getting trade plates. I'd call that a very lucky escape indeed.