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Can't find the post where we were discussing no. plate sprays but this might be of interest:

http://www.beatthespeedtrap.co.uk/protectorplate.html

The spray I used (which in a rough test using a ordinary SLR camera flash gave an overexposed no. plate bit) is called Photoblocker from the States

Beem on Adams mailing list for a while, tempted

I would have thought you could apply a filter to the reflected image and re-create the numbers..

I reckon they'll have the technology to sort this by now and then do you for attempting to pervert the course of justice

I am 99% sure that they can that they can filter the plates. Yes its perverting the course of justice.

And if its a private plate DVLA can withdraw the number.

The number plate is perfectly visible if the police could be bothered to look at it and complies with the law.

In any event, the act of spraying is done before any (alleged) speeding therefore no course of justice is being taken to pervert by the spraying.

Suppose keeping a magnet in the boot interfered with some police toy to harass motorists - unless keeping a magnet in the boot is made expressly illegal then the police can do nothing.

one of my neighbours inadvertantly had the ideal answer to speed cameras, got a brand new jeep grand cherokee thingy, and it wasn't 'til he came to tax it at 12 months old that he discovered that the dealer had not only but the wrong reg no on the plate, but also on the tax disc, dealer had misread a U as J, he asked me previous to this how long after a camera flashed would he expect to receive the nip as he hadn't and never did lucky chap

Very lucky as if he had been pulled he would have been done for the false plate, regardless of what the dealer did its still the drivers responsibility to check its legal.

Not so sure they tend to be pretty lethargic until somthing is done en - mass and the money dries up, they like the easy target route and can't be arsed to put effort in with most crime and crims. Alledgedly its something to do with high output of speed camera flashes that make it easier for these sprays to work, I'm not saying these sprays work but it would be far easier for authorities to claim they don't and hope we didn't try them than invest in expensive apparatus to catch the very few who had already sprayed. On most scamera's they already have more offenders than they can prosecute anyway and do not have time to chase up bad images, the only down side being the fact we drive rare to very rare motors that are easilly tracable and a feather in the cap to the traffic taliband than say silver Astra's

Paul I believe that Operation Larch has been extended, so take car out there all of you will altered plates

Yes they are still on with operation Larch but unfortunately my local traffic headquarters has gone from nearly 40 vehicles to less than 10, you would have to be unlucky to get caught

I see that, but it only takes one pull.

At least were better off here than in OZ. I have been driving here since 1969 and never been pulled for speeding, not for the want of trying that is.

After 10 days in OZ £430 fine and 7 demerit points on my OZ license , if I ever get one

Bit O/T but I was once pulled for doing 110 in a Cooper S (Old proper one.) The copper just wanted to look at the car When he'd finished he just said. Take it easy lad. Thought I was going to lose my licence. They don't make coppers like that any more.

Easily done - also juxtapositioning of letters or numbers when ordering them from showplates

Broken number plates are a nuisance too. Sometimes one just doesn't spot them.
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I read that the operation was largely to stop people from using P8NIS plates rather than
P8 NIS and other trivial nonsense that the Police like to bang on about rather than having to do some real work