debadging illegal?

Glover12 · Post by **Glover12** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:00 pm

i know this is a really dum question,he might just be winding me up but one of my mates today told me that its illegal to take the polo badge off on my car.before telling him to shut up i actually went braindead and thought that maybe he is correct but had a strong feeling he wasnt!
can someone just varify that it is not illegal for me please?
cheers

Shmosh · Post by **Shmosh** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:43 pm

no its not illegal! it's an optional extra at the garage to have it on or off!

Dan 6N · Post by **Dan 6N** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:58 pm

Nah, its not illegal..

kipper · Post by **kipper** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:12 am

either hes having u on or hes not all that bright himself. def not illegal. i dont have n e badges or names on my car to say its a polo or even a vw and i never been pulled. wont fail an mot either. nowa days some cars dont have them on when they leave the factory.

Glover12 · Post by **Glover12** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:11 am

good good he said something about the police not be able to identify the make and model when there running checks on you.i said surely theyd just use the registration if they didnt know what model it is
cheers

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:23 am

i think hes a bit confused

the police will check the vehicle details through the reg number and the vin! i have no badges on mine and it definately hasn't failed its MOT because of this fact

NOZ · Post by **NOZ** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:40 pm

I wouldn't go to your mate for any future car related advice if I was you mate

As said before, some cars don't even have the badge so your mate should've thought about that before making a un-educated remark! funny tho

olop_chris · Post by **olop_chris** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:08 pm

Haha, some people...honestly!

Smidley · Post by **Smidley** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:38 pm

OMG! Tell him to go and open the door, insert his head in between the frame and door, and slam the door repeatedly until he knocks some sense in.

Shame on you for considering...

kipper · Post by **kipper** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:11 pm

Smidley wrote:OMG! Tell him to go and open the door, insert his head in between the frame and door, and slam the door repeatedly until he knocks some sense in.

Shame on you for considering...

ahhh that was quite funny....... made me laugh.

police wont be bothered about debadging. there are about 4 or 5 main things they will care about tho but debadging aint one of them.

the things they will care about tho is:
sound system: weather u have it to loud or not in a built up area.
rear light tinting: legal as long as its not like colour coded to the car so u can barely see the lights through it.
exhaust: cant be to loud.
number plates: if they have ghost writing in the background or if the lettering isnt a certain size and the spacing.

i think theyre worst one tho is window tinting: they will screw u left right and centre if either the front passenger and driver side windows are to dark to let the certain amount of light through.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:52 am

kipper wrote:
i think theyre worst one tho is window tinting: they will screw u left right and centre if either the front passenger and driver side windows are to dark to let the certain amount of light through.

VW windows come factory tinted, so any film on the front two makes them illegal

NOZ · Post by **NOZ** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:07 am

Any idea what percentage the factory tints are? Remember it needs to pass 7 or 80% light through.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:28 pm

I can't remember now. When I got mine done though, the guy that did them said there wasn't a film on the market that he knows of that won't tip them over the legal limit.

There may be some though?

NOZ · Post by **NOZ** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:45 pm

^^ Really; factory tints ain't that much and i'd think 15% tints would be ok. Anyway, i'll come to the problem if ever plan to get tints.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:05 pm

Well I'd imagine factorys would be something in the region of 10% tinted, so 15% on top of that maybe too much?

It's hard to say though, would be good if an exact figure could be obtained for factory tints