"Bright Lights" Number plate recalled

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:37 pm

White on black suits everything. I paid the extra $50 on Vic for it (that's the max I'd pay).

hks_kansei · Postby **hks_kansei** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:22 pm

bruce wrote:White on black suits everything. I paid the extra $50 on Vic for it (that's the max I'd pay).

Must have been a while ago, since it's about $200 these days.

I think it was only $100 when I got the black plates for my car.

Rob · Postby **Rob** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:16 am

I thought this day was coming; they got pulled for sale months and months and months ago.

Always seemed clear they were going to yank the existing ones off the road at some stage, likely with a replacement.

They truly were hard to read unless you were up quite close.

mx54nb · Postby **mx54nb** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:35 am

Agree they are hard to read but they were supplied by RMS, approved by them
It really sucks that you don't have the opportunity to select the replacement colour seeing as this plate was chosen and a premium paid to get it.
The red is likely to be pink from what I've seen and really? People want that??
Seeing as they are making the replacement, why doesn't RMS actually talk to the holders of these, now problem plates, to get an alternative they may actually want. Rather than screw them for more money!
Those plates look great on Roadrunner's car...if they become pink...eww

JayMo · Postby **JayMo** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:21 pm

I have the red on black, paid good money for it... a black background plate is the only plate that works in the maw of a new Mazda 3 that doesn't look like a Hitler moustache, if the red on black were not offered I would have gotten the premium white on black, but the red on black was offered and it matched the car perfectly... just looked at the replacement on the interwebs and it looks terrible...

They offered it, looks awesome on my car, so I bought it, now I read through this thread and my Mx5 peers are judging me for it (I thought we were enthusiasts?) Farrk! . And No... 99% of the population did not purchase them because they are hard to see, they were tested and past (like ADRs of their day) so 7000 of us bought them ...

And no, "allowed to revert to standard?" pi$$ off, I want to be allowed to pick an equivalent premium plate.

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:13 pm

JayMo wrote:..now I read through this thread and my Mx5 peers are judging me for it...

Sure you don't just have a persecution complex? Literally not a single post in this thread is aggressive toward the owners of these plates, blaming them in any way, or accusing them of buying them to get out of trouble. It's been 100% comments that the government screwed up by allowing them for sale in the first place, and are handling it badly with the replacements.

JayMo · Postby **JayMo** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:20 pm

I do have a persecution complex, although yeah I admit I have probably pushed it on to this forum, (I apologise at the end...)

I have taken a week off to do some renovations, morrel in the drive, car in the street, and me out there often... ever since this got published in the NRMA magazine I have had three walk-by and one drive by - self appointed custodians of the law (nosey retirees- one of those suburbs where the subdivision means all the long timers are of the same certain age, and the whole suburb walks up my street to get to the shops/doctors/chemist) take the time out of there busy schedule (of nothing) to inform me that my number plates are illegible.

One of them said "I should be ashamed" (for what, a number plate with red letters?), another told me that "You could be breaking the law, doing break and enters, and we couldn't catch you" (who is we? you? and me do break and enters?), the third was the bush-care natzi, so I suppose I should not count that loony bin...

Then the piece of cake... A silver haired furry faced dude drives down the road whilst I am throwing tiles in my morrel at the end of (another)long, hard, humid day. Stops his Silver Mazda6 across the road (car behind swerves somewhat to get around him), gets out, marches across the road, walks to the front of the car... shakes his head and pulls a face, walks around to the back of the car, arms on hips, shakes head, frowns clicks tongue... hanging to do his civic duty and tell me what a crim I am...

starts walking towards my drive, I am about to go off like a frog in a sock... In a moment of clarity I decide now would be a good time to go to bunnings, I charge over to the SUV before he got his chest off

Two weeks ago this was not news... Today the NRMA members were up in arms... and they "won" and the politiking occurs with knee jerk responses. Surely there are plenty of Crap roads they could be up in arms about...

So when scanning through this thread I read "I'm surprised they don't just fine the owners for having illegible plates" and the red mist decends... Re-reading in context , I did take your post the wrong way (Trackphotos) and for that I apologise ...

hks_kansei · Postby **hks_kansei** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:40 pm

Just spray the back of the car with mud, covering the plate.

To really piss them off.

Roadrunner · Postby **Roadrunner** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:07 pm

I do love the irony of someone breaking the road rules to tell someone else that they are breaking the road rules :lol:

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:15 pm

JayMo wrote:I do have a persecution complex, although yeah I admit I have probably pushed it on to this forum, (I apologise at the end...)

I have taken a week off to do some renovations, morrel in the drive, car in the street, and me out there often... ever since this got published in the NRMA magazine I have had three walk-by and one drive by - self appointed custodians of the law (nosey retirees- one of those suburbs where the subdivision means all the long timers are of the same certain age, and the whole suburb walks up my street to get to the shops/doctors/chemist) take the time out of there busy schedule (of nothing) to inform me that my number plates are illegible.

One of them said "I should be ashamed" (for what, a number plate with red letters?), another told me that "You could be breaking the law, doing break and enters, and we couldn't catch you" (who is we? you? and me do break and enters?), the third was the bush-care natzi, so I suppose I should not count that loony bin...

Then the piece of cake... A silver haired furry faced dude drives down the road whilst I am throwing tiles in my morrel at the end of (another)long, hard, humid day. Stops his Silver Mazda6 across the road (car behind swerves somewhat to get around him), gets out, marches across the road, walks to the front of the car... shakes his head and pulls a face, walks around to the back of the car, arms on hips, shakes head, frowns clicks tongue... hanging to do his civic duty and tell me what a crim I am...

starts walking towards my drive, I am about to go off like a frog in a sock... In a moment of clarity I decide now would be a good time to go to bunnings, I charge over to the SUV before he got his chest off

Two weeks ago this was not news... Today the NRMA members were up in arms... and they "won" and the politiking occurs with knee jerk responses. Surely there are plenty of Crap roads they could be up in arms about...

So when scanning through this thread I read "I'm surprised they don't just fine the owners for having illegible plates" and the red mist decends... Re-reading in context , I did take your post the wrong way (Trackphotos) and for that I apologise ...

Sounds like some pretty good reasons to expect it from everywhere else then, if you get it from random people on the street. Can't say I would have picture that kind of outrage over rego plates. A little bit of media attention does have the strange effect of rallying people into mobs over nothing, though. Sorry to hear it's such a big deal for them.

project.r.racing · Postby **project.r.racing** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:52 am

Calmer than me. I would've been alot less polite to strangers sitting on their ivory towers about my number plates.

Mr Morlock · Postby **Mr Morlock** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:28 pm

I think its all over the top i.e. the responses and clear evidence of ageism. If the older gent wanted to make a complaint it would probably have been defused in a few moments if he got a smile or a good response. I had an instance not that long ago where a trady parked his ute with a piece of wood on a rack at roughly head height partially blocking the footpath. My concern was that someone could easily walk into it at night i.e. walking the dog and do themselves an injury. So I knocked on the door and a young bloke about the size of Arnie said it was his brothers car and he could not have been thinking straight and he would get him to move it straightaway- I could have easily been told where to go and probably would have gone.

They would not have recalled the plates without a good reason. Recalls are expensive exercises.

Roadrunner · Postby **Roadrunner** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:26 pm

I think my biggest gripe with it is, is that people paid for red and black, but they are replacing it with what looks like pink. If you don't like pink you have to pay near on $300 to change it.
Rather than them just going ahead and making pink plates for everyone, they could have offered us a choice of alternate colours if we didn't want pink number plates. Similar cost for the RMS and everyone's (mostly) happy.

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:43 pm

They should be allowing full refunds for anybody who bought them. They offered goods at a price, people paid that price and received those goods. Now they say they're taking them back, keeping your money, and giving you what they consider an equivalent replacement. No company would get away with that, why should they? The guy they interviewed in the original article even said, "We’ve got to take a hit out of this – it’s our fault but it’s something we had to do." Apparently they aren't taking enough responsibility to issue refunds though, rather they're using peoples dislike of their elected replacements to gouge them for another $300.

mattyredlocks · Postby **mattyredlocks** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:07 am

I'll second that, full refunds ("here, have a normal plate and your money back") or at least any other custom plate of the same value.

It's not like it'd be hard to ask the current owners if they would like A) normal plates and a refund, B) New version of the plate they bought, C) Replacement plate of your choosing, with the owner paying the difference if they pick a more expensive plate.

It's just good PR and business.