Car Number plates

Plates by post can supply car number plates to order to suit any vehicle on the road in the UK. The car number plates we supply conform to the legal requirements, car registration number plates we do do, not show plates or custom number plates as they are sometimes referred to. The reason for this is simple, show or custom plates all completely illegal and any one who supplies them in the UK are liable for prosecution.

It is also illegal to have a car no plate to look like a foreign plate, there has been a trend for some motorists to get car number plate makers to create new car number plates looking similar to that used in Germany and even to look like American car license plates. The car plate has to follow the legal requirements and so do ALL of our plates. We can't emphasise enough that you should avoid any outlet that supplies car number plates that fail to conform to UK law. If you can't make car number plates you want using our car plates builder then it the variation is quite simply illegal. You shouldn't need a fitting service, check out our car number plate fitting video

You can legally have European or national flag / badges on your car no plates and we have a wide range of GB, England, Wales & Scotland variation for you to select from on our car number plate builder, this allows you to preview the car number plates to order. Cheap number plates available to order today. You can see all of the different flag badges on our online plate builder.


Car Number Plates, car registration number plates

The Dimensions For Car Number Plates

The most popular size of number plates is 520mm x 111mm often referred to as a standard or Euro car number plate, some folks call them a car license plate. Although the law requires number plates to have the characters at a certain size, the actual size of the number plate is not defined.

  • Character height 79mm

  • Character width (except the figure 1 or letter I) 50mm

  • Character stroke 14mm

  • Space between characters 11mm

  • Space between groups 33mm

  • Top, bottom and side margins (minimum) 11mm

  • Vertical space between groups 19mm

Contoured Car Number Plates