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I'm travelling to France and Spain next week for an extended road trip over a month. I need to put a 'UK' sticker on the back but have run into a problem. As the car is aluminium and plastic a magnetic one won't work. I don't want to attach a highly adhesive one that will leave marks when I take it off and the car is a convertible so rear window is out, Any suggestions please?
Thanks
Jim
Use some black car wrap film, it's easily removable and you can place a sticker on that. When finished, remove the wrap which will also remove the sticker.
I just got a blue sticker that affixed to the left side of the license plate. It may not fit the best on your style of plate (could trim it slightly?), but that's still probably better than doing something to the car's paint.
Have a good trip!
Last edited by equatorial; Apr 16, 2024 at 10:17 AM.
You can use the UK sticker on the LH side of the number plate in FRANCE but you MUST have a UK sticker in SPAIN. The Spanish police will check everything if you are stopped.
I used the self adhesive type on my F-Pace last year. Make sure the paint is clean and polished before attaching then just warm it with a hair drier to peel it off after the trip to remove it without leaving any residue.
Things used to be so much easier when we could just get in the car and go with a Euro GB registration plate.
After writing the previous post, I realised I'd had four different vehicles at that same interchange on the A7 which is 2000 miles from home.
Unfortunately, as well as the additional bureaucracy, the speeding tickets still find me but those long open roads in Continental Europe are such a temptation.
Unrelated question to my colleagues on the other side of the pond: What in your opinion is the motivation to post your nationalityon the car? After all, you can tell by the plate, anyways.
Are you allowed to have a number plate with a UK logo on the side like the EU-style ones? You could have one made and swap it over when travelling. .....
It is allowed but the idiots who negotiated the Brexit agreement overlooked arranging for the country's GB identifier on registration plates to be accepted throughout the Schengen Area whilst continuing to accept the use of EU plates for temporary travel in the UK. The buffoon in charge then changed our national identifier from GB to UK. Some EU countries accept the identifier on the left of our registration plates but Spain is one that does not.
Unrelated question to my colleagues on the other side of the pond: What in your opinion is the motivation to post your nationalityon the car? After all, you can tell by the plate, anyways.
Unless you are familiar with all the UK and European registration systems, it's difficult to tell just from the number where the vehicle originates. The "motivation" is that national identifiers are required by regulations for travel outside the territorial limits of the country of registration. You don't usually need to display this in your "home" country but many find it easier to fit the plates showing the national identifier.
For example, I could use a plate like this within the UK but not travel to mainland Europe with it unless there was a UK sticker on the rear of the vehicle.
As a "personal" registration (and this one is not mine), there is almost no way of knowing where the vehicle is registered.
Yes, I travel over often but I suppose I just have the national oriented plates in my mind.
Coincidentally, when I travel anywhere I insist on renting a car with a local registration, only. That way no one mistakes me as “not local”.
Thanks.
'UK' sticker on rear.
