Modding P Plates?

[Lloyd]

Bollocks. If its going on an old car then its as rice as putting old style mags on

[BlakJak]

I see your point, but I disagree.

A license plate is exactly that. It's supplied as a part of the act of making your car road-registered. You work within the law.

(If you want to lobby the Govt to institute a 'historical class' of license plate for restored cars of the older era, for example, then that's your call. Otherwise we run the plates we're given.)

The same argument could be made for sticker plates on the front of sports cars - people running them are doing it for ergonomic reasons, not because the extra coupla percentage points of performance really mean much to them... (on the track, where it matters, you could remove your front plate for the run.)

Put it this way, at least with one rule for all, we're all in the same boat. There's plenty of old cars with new style plates on them....
Thus whilst there might be an appeal to looking 'original', everyone who has to reregister their old vehicle gets new plates. Stuff happens.

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[Mike-]

yeh but sticker plates are mentioned specifically, they are illegal

and no way its rice its just like an original bumper or rims back on your car

[method]

I think its rice.

Id laugh if i saw a new 3 letter plate white on black background. Its just trying too hard.

Its not cool unless its the original.

[Lloyd]

You haven't seen one then, though they aren't the same as the old one

[Emperor]

Ive seen a commodore and a vectra go aorund with black background and silver letter plates..
Brand new cars too..

Holden got their ins with the government or do the owners just have money to pay fines while looking gay?

[Santa'sBoostinSleigh]

basically as far as i understand, youre not allowed to do anything at all to modify your plate, including painting, trimming, putting stickers or overlays on.

i ran out of time looking for the facts i have seen before, may get onto it later - home time!

random facts: http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/fascin ... lates.html