*Legal* Euro-style pressed plates?

Yeah they look nice, give it quite a different look.

temp to get some

Very nice, are they metal instead of plastic?

yep these ones are metal

I'm tempted too! As I got pulled after having my Euro's on for a year! 60 pound FINE! Be Warned!

The new Dubmeister ones are legal, they've been printing them on the spot at some of the vw shows if you take your v5 with you.

Yo. Update on the pressed plates. Andy had some that he got off eBay [not marked with the British standard]. Needless to say he got pulled, and fined <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->
Anyway, Dubmeister [ www.dubmeister.co.uk/ ] definately are 100% legal these days. You have to send your docs away to them so that they can mark the plates up correctly to be compliant with the law.

I'm deffo gettin some for the Pug when I next get paid.

Anyway, nabbed this info off a Seat site for your reading pleasure but maybe we could email them and get a club discount set up? You never know unless you ask I guess! <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->] Hope this info helps

As promised here is details of correspondence ive had with Dubmeister regarding these plates.
Paul from dubmeister has been most helpful and I’m sure you will find the following interesting and pleasing (I have highlighted some important points).

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.

Paul also commented:

It was a long battle, we had to convince the German blank maker it was worth their while helping us, but they put a lot of R & D into it, and it was lucky they work with the DIN people on testing so closely. A £30,000 investment in laser marking was the final step..
Finished result is pleasing though...

If members of the forum are happy to mail in their legal docs (special delivery is best) we can return then safe with the plates they are entitled to, by guaranteed next day post (24hr turnaround)


Paul has offered:

A discount of £5.00 a set - That’s £31.90 delivered.

To be clear, we must stick to the law and supply original docs. Im sure you can understand this and only legal character spacing for these plates.

Show plates can also have a £5.00 discount on. GB, E band etc.

Tel 01275 851069/866069 10am-6pm M-F 10am-2pm Sat
Fax 01275 866458

Kind Regards
Paul

Tel 01275 851069/866069 10am-6pm M-F 10am-2pm Sat
Fax 01275 866458

Dubmeister
Unit 1 Blackfriars Industrial Estate
Blackfriars Road
Nailsea
Bristol
BS48 4DJ

lorraine (lorrie) bought me some plates from dubmeister and i never had to send my doc's off.

more importantly they were a fuckin joke with the delivery, totally cocked up the order.

waited 3 weeks for them to send 2 front plates instead of 1 front and 1 rear, then after speaking to them numerous times over the course of &quot;ONE MONTH&quot; <!-- s:o --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_surprised.gif" alt="" title="Surprised" /><!-- s:o --> <!-- s:twisted: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_twisted.gif" alt="" title="Twisted Evil" /><!-- s:twisted: --> they said they would refund the money. i would never use them again. hope nobody else has the same problem.

Anbody else think that the pressed plates are getting seriously over-used?

retro dan wrote: Anbody else think that the pressed plates are getting seriously over-used?

No i personally don't think there getting over used, each to there own! Everybody has there own prefrences on exterior styling of there car. I think they look really smart and stand out a treat!! So there.....