What color can license plate lights be?
Stop lamps or taillights must all be red and license plate lights can only be white. The backup lights are also being restricted to only amber or white.
Are Number Plate Bulbs legal?
The regulations governing number plates state they should only be illuminated by white lights at the front and red at the back of the car, and that they shouldn’t be positioned in any way that might distract other drivers. The exception to the coloured-light placement are reversing and indicator lights.
Is it illegal to drive without number plate lights?
There are no restrictions to the number of lights on the vehicle. The only requirement is that the rear number plate is sufficiently illuminated.
What is the penalty for no number plate?
Motorists caught displaying their registrations incorrectly can be stopped by traffic police, fail MOT tests and even pay fines of up to £1,000. It is also illegal to re-arrange the letters or obscure a number plate rendering it hard to read.
Are LED number plate bulbs legal?
In fact, LEDs last so long, you may never have to replace a license plate bulb. If your car didn’t have LEDs as standard, you can easily install them yourself. It’s worth noting that some LED number plate bulbs are not road legal.
Are glow in the dark number plates legal?
You cannot have any colour other than white, yellow, or black on a number plate. Some companies have been seen to falsely promote their 4D coloured crystal number plates as road legal, however this is not the case and could result in trouble with the Road Traffic Policing teams!
Are 4D number plates being banned?
The British Standards Institute (BSI) has updated the technical standards for number plates in the UK. This means that 3D Gel and 4D number plates will be banned.
Are 4D ghost plates legal?
Providing they conform to the rules regulating UK number plates, 4D plates are entirely legal to use on your car. The material of the plate the 4D characters are attached to must also meet the same high level of British Standard (BS AU 145d) in order to be legal.
Are 4D white plates legal?
Yes. ‘4D’ style number plates are fully road legal, as long as they follow some important rules. To be road legal, your number plates must: Have a backing made from a reflective material.
Are Raised number plates illegal?
3D gel style number plates are manufactured by coating sheet-cut alphanumeric characters in a polyurethane gel to give them a raised profile on the number plate. This type of plate is 100% legal providing it fully complies with registration laws, including using the Charles Wright font seen on all UK plates.
Is a 7×5 number plate legal?
It’s illegal. Here’s the regs direct from the DVLA: Motorcycles registered from 1 September 2001 must only display a number plate at the rear of the vehicle.
What’s the difference between 3D and 4D plates?
The key difference between them is how they are made and how they look. 3D plates are easier and faster to make than 4D plates, which also makes them cheaper. 4D characters are more raised and more rectangular. 3D characters are less raised and more rounded for an understated look.
Do 4D plates look good?
They look fine, quite subtle and hardly noticeable unless you know.
Why is the number plate 70?
What do the numbers mean? The year in which the car was manufactured is shown by the numbers on the registration plate: For example, cars made in September 2020 will feature a ’70’, because 20+50 = 70. This is why registration plates registered in September 2020 – February 2021 feature a ’70’.