Granturismo front number plate
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c4sman
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No, the car is 100% standard. I think it largely depends on where you normally drive and how you approach speed bumps. Normal speed bumps that go accross the whole road are fine, but the small ones that allow you to place your wheels either side are not. Even at crawling pace on some of the bigger ones, if they go under the middle of the car, the plate scrapes. The alternative is to I place one of the wheels so that you drive over the crown of the speed bump. I prefer not to do this due to the extra stress I would be putting through the suspension every time. To be honest, most of the time this is not a problem as there are very few of these on my normal routes, however I visited a mate at the weekend and all access roads to him are swamped with these type of speed humps that seem extra large.
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My standard-sized front plate gets scraped quite often, mainly exiting downward ramps. The whole thing fell off once in France on a speed bump, an hour or so before a forward facing speed camera photographed me. Overall I prefer the look of it without but it's a handy sacrificial early-warning system for out-sized obstacles.
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The stress imposed doing a crawl over a speed hump is as nothing compared to just about anything at 70 I think you'll find.
Personally I try to get a wheel on each pillow, although I don't have the same issues around the plate as you.
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With the small ones you are better having just one side of the car go over them - at low speed - to reduce the risk of the inside of your tyres getting shredded.
c4sman
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Fair point from you and Catman. The slow crawl over speed humps can be stressful when you have numpties an inch off your rear bumper who want to jump the speedhumps at 50mph in 30mph limits. I had a woman attempt an overtake with busy oncoming traffic as she wasn't happy with my road hump speed. The attempt was impossible and even If I had stopped she would have had a head on with the cars on the other side of the road or just ended up stranded on the wrong side of the road. Luckily she aborted and pulled back in behind me. Dangerous and totally unnecessary as we were both stopped in stationaly traffic 10 seconds later.....
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Having had two nobles that have nigh on zero ground clearance, the 45 degree angle approach to the speed bumps always works. One wheel on first at 45 degree, then turn forwards onto the ramp, and then 45 degrees going down it. Apologies if I'm telling anyone to suck eggs!
As long as the characters are standard and the space around them is standard then you can shorten the plate down depending on how many characters you have. For example, I have 87ME which is a lot shorter but still maintains the correct character font, size and spacing. You also need to have the manufacturers post code and the BS mark present.
I posted some pictures earlier on in the thread (see post # 87 - spooky!).
I posted some pictures earlier on in the thread (see post # 87 - spooky!).
87 for 87! My plates are pretty much the same front and back for a 2x2. The Maserati dealer fitted them to the car for it's first registration and I can't imagine them fitting something illegal with the garage name and postcode on them.