WWWWWWwwwwwwww not good.

You're lucky to catch any Council departments after 4pm on a weekday here, never mind on a Saturday!!

Being nosey please explain why change plates?

Some scrote stole the last ones.

As Linux said, somebody stole the rear plate from my car, when it was parked (outside a police station!) in town.

I reported it to the police, who have now blocked the old plate for 2 years. That means I needed to get news plates issued.

As I said, pain as we used to have consecutive plates, which was kind of nice, now I have a totally different range.

In Germany, the plate is issued when you purchase the car. If you move to a different area, you need to re-register the car and get new plates local to the area you live in (I used to live in Geltendor, area town was Landsburg am Lech, so I had an LL prefix, I then moved to Bramsche, area town is Osnabrück, so I now have an OS prefix).

The rest of the plate is made up of letters and numbers (normally 5 digits, made up of 1 or 2 characters, followed by 1 - 4 numbers, to a max of 5 digits). Unless you go for a personalised plate (but must start with your area town prefix), you will be assigned the next one on the list for your local town hall.

The year of manufacture/first registration is not marked on the plate, you can have a 20 year old car and a brand new, just rolled out the show room car with consecutive numbers. The only indicator is on the front the plaque which says when the next exhaust test is due and at the back, where it says when the next MOT is due (separate tests here, although usually they coincide with each other.

Cheers amazing the different systems in different countries.

I should have also said, when you sell the car, you remove your plates and the new owner puts their newly issued plates on the car.

You have to take the old plates back the the town hall and get them cancelled, then you have to either remove the MOT and exhaust date stamps or grind them off (Bavaria had plug in ones, many other states use a sticker).

That's 9 more than any child should need.

Not really

The majority of children can't learn by writing things down.

Have you thought of one yet?
(8+)

Mark

Are you OK Ben ?

Nite Nite.

Yea I remember that Big_D , we had a draw going with the names of countries in and waited to see who was first with a big accident I think we had something like 200 or 250 dm in the pot almost as good as the xmas lottery .hahahaha.

Oh that's good. I need to get a train via the [LIFTED] [LIFTED] [LIFTED] [LIFTED] [LIFTED] [LIFTED] that is Reading station later.

Did you get to see his exhibition in Bristol in the summer - It was Brilliant