young driver insurance specialists?

How does that work then? Speed camera detector picks up the radar so you pull over, attach false numberplates and then speed safely past the camera? ;-)

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John Stumbles
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No. The pillocks that failed my MOT due to number plate damage on my car (a water mark behind the sticker) managed to install a number plate with two of the numbers the wrong way around. I just cannot be arsed to get it swapped.

No use for forward facing GATSOs.

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ARWadsworth

Umm .. till ANR plod comes along and makes a fuss of it then its your licence that'll get the blame?. Why didn't you take it up with the garage concerned?..

Are there any?. I'd have thought that a flash going off right in front of a driver was 'agin some regs or other. Never seen one doing that...

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tony sayer

Unless there have been changes, number plate offences are subject to fine only, not points.

The Truvelo cameras are forward facing, I seem to think they have infrared flash.

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Andy Burns

And the chance to speed through some cameras would be gone. And most fixed ANPR cameras pick up the front number plate.

Truvelo, as Andy ponted out. All are forward facing cameras.

Front facing cameras are the prefered choice as they can ID the driver when Chris Huhne is behind the wheel.

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ARWadsworth

Correct.

Used on the A14 through Cambridgeshire, among other places I frequent. It is rumoured that the most common picture found on their films is of a motorcyclist extending his second finger in the time honoured manner while doing well in excess of 100mph. Which is why they're being replaced with normal cameras as quckly as can be afforded.

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John Williamson

Any decent motorcyclist would then just do a wheelie at 100mph so that the number plate cannot be seen.

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ARWadsworth

Well fine then;!...

I thought we had those time trial ones that measured your average speed over a fixed distance on the A14?...

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tony sayer

No, the A14 definitely has the blue Truvelos, the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham has the SPECS cameras (as well as various routes within Nottingham).

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Andy Burns

It doesn't in the bit between Huntingdon and Cambridge...

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tony sayer

Fair enough, it's the bit between the M1 and Huntingdon that I use most.

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Andy Burns

Right its amazing that you can get going alone there fast enough to trigger the cameras anyway..

I do WISH they had a camera that caught lorries tailgating. I saw some the other week that were around 1 to 2 metres apart they might just as well called it a road train;!...

If they get up my bumper then they'll get ever increasing brake light flashes till they learn not to. Deffo not the class of driver they once were;(...

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tony sayer

I've put a cheap camera in the back window, and it is amazing how often a tail-gater retreats to a reasonable distance once they have seen it. It can also be used as evidence if required.

David

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David

Which of those measures carbon emissions?

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Man at B&Q

And the cars electrics might not be built to modern EMC standards and suffer when the 'phone dials out. might only be the stereo that actually suffers but people will complain.

MBQ

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Man at B&Q

Cmax 1.6 diseasel is =A3300 or less for me and SWMBO. I'm spending what I've saved on the diseasel bit, however. Never again.

MBQ

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Man at B&Q

Why didn't you also ask which of those measures road type?

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Andrew Morton

Google Truvelo.

MBQ

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Man at B&Q

Kingscroft Volvo in Leatherhead managed to do something similar for a mate of mine some years ago. Put their own plates on a second hand car he bought from them: OBD on the front and ODB on the rear.

I noticed it when I was looking around it. He'd had it a fortnight by then!

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Doctor D

Quite. 80k so far in an automatic with original pads and discs all round. Last service said they were about 60% worn, so I'll be gutted if they don't last the 100k.

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Doctor D

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