Number plates & Road Angel

Guest · Sep 1, 2003

Hi

Two questions

1. I saw a whole host of number plates at Eynsham this weekend with the Porsche crest on one side and the PCGB badge on the other. Can any one tell me where I can get a set ?

2. I am toying with buying a Road angel as it seems to be about the best on the market ... does any one have one and are they any good ? and , oops, third question, is any one else thinking of buying one ? Maybe we could negotiate a bulk purchase ?

Regards

Steve Tatham
M11 BOX

Nick Moss · Sep 1, 2003

Try http://www.malplates.co.uk

Andrew Killington · Sep 1, 2003

Steve
re Road Angel - Norfolk and Suffolk region are receiving a Road Angel demo at the next club night - September 16th from 7.30pm. Special deals on the night for those buying.
Andy

Ian Gilmour · Sep 1, 2003

I had my plates made locally, just got the stickers from the club shop and loacl specialist, told the guy what I wanted and he made them, simple as that. This was about 3 years ago before the new number plate regulations came in - I' m not sure how these have changed things for number plate makers.

I bought a road angel about 2 months ago. So far, so good. Hasn' t yet failed to pick up a camera (which was useful driving to Eynsham at the weekend) although it sometimes picks up " ghost" cameras, presumably where they used to be before road works were completed. You can delete these alerts when they happen but when you update your unit from the database (which, incidentally is quite easy), the ghost cameras reappear.

Sometimes the beeping for blackspots and cameras can be annoying but you can alter the range at which it detects them which means that it doesn' t beep for so long. I just haven' t get round to changing the settings on mine yet.

Guest · Sep 1, 2003

The plates that you saw probably came from " Type 911" of Beckenham Kent. We had a pair made about seven years ago. They do not seem to advertise them now but may be worth giving them a call. Tel: 020 8402 8424 or www.type911.co.uk. The number plates are not obvious on their website.

Charlie_McLaughlin · Sep 1, 2003

Buy the Porsche emblems from Club shop or your OPC. Phone Malplates, tell them its for a set of " Show Plates" , negotiate a price and send off your Porsche bits and about 5 days later your plates arrive.

Grant · Sep 2, 2003

I' ve had the road angel for a few months, initially it missed the odd camera, but after an internet update seems spot on. It found 6 camera' s for me on the way down to Eynsham, no false alarms. It also has a built in Laser detector, which is important, but I have yet (thankfully) to test out. Shopping around the prices all seem the same although I got an extra years updates free as part of an EVO mag. deal.

Guest · Sep 4, 2003

If your still interested in plates. I have a set with the logo they are designed and ordered on the web with all sorts of fonts/sizes etc. www.fancyplates.com they have a next day despatch from their base in Ireland. As I recall - about £35 a set.

Guest · Sep 5, 2003

Contacted Type911 and they say that they no longer do the number plates with logos.

Guest · Sep 5, 2003

Even Halfords do plates with logos - well, the UK/EU one, at least - for approx. £15.00 (each ?). My local Halfords has gone upmarket, and orange, so I popped in yesterday to nose around.

Fancyplates seem to put the logo on both/neither plates - I would only want it on the rear. I don' t know why, it just seems right.

Andy Tims · Sep 9, 2003

Steve

Sorry for the delay in replying but I' ve been away on hols.

Road Angel is very good. If youv' e not alreadry bought, I negotiated a great deal for 5 units with John Fenton of GPS Megastores early this year. His phone numbers are 01772 601525 / 07850 173120.

Mention my name if you like.

Andy Tims

Helen Goff · Sep 9, 2003

Road Angel is very good

Andy are these as good as people say? do they have to be fitted/fixed into the car?

Guest · Sep 9, 2003

If you can arrange a good price I want one. I noticed that the DTConcours people had a competitive show price.

As a cautionary note I picked up an SP30 and fine when I was " spotted" by a mobile detector, even though he was facing the opposite direction and aiming at on-coming traffic. I shan' t be making the same mistake and with a detector I hope to get advanced warning. Although (so I don' t get moderated), of course I don' t often speed [8|].

Grant · Sep 9, 2003

ORIGINAL: Helen Goff

Road Angel is very good

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Andy are these as good as people say? do they have to be fitted/fixed into the car?

Helen, you simply plug them into the cigarette lighter & the unit then sits on the dash board secured by two " suckers" , it' s a plug & play thing, picks up all the fixed sites via GPS & Lazer by a seperate/small plug in addition, complete with it' s own built in" sucker"
to secure it to the screen.

Brian..the only trouble with mobile Lazer' s is the camera' s fire such a narrow beam, by the time the detector has picked it up, you have probably been done !!! You have to be lucky with these things & hope they shoot a car next to you first , so your detector can get wind of things !! But at least you know if you have been shot, then you can hunt out the copper & find out if you have been done, rather than agonise for weeks !!!

Guest · Sep 10, 2003

Hi. I am going to buy a Road Angel and would be interested if others were thinking of a bulk purchase. What is the best rate people have seen at the moment?

I' ll call John Fenton of GPS Megastores (01772 601525 / 07850 173120). Andy - do you mind me asking what price you negotiated?

Actually - just called but no answer so will report back later.

NicD · Sep 10, 2003

(so I don' t get moderated),

Brian, you have to say a lot more than that to get moderated!
Actually, I have a Bell unit, am thinking of upgrading.

Helen Goff · Sep 10, 2003

how much do they cost?

how do i get hold of one with out being ripped off?

can it be used on more than one car or do i need a unit for each car?

evoke · Sep 10, 2003

Helen,

The Road Angel + Laser alert add-on are selling for around 393GBP. I' ve not seen any discounted prices yet. The unit is very portable as the only direct connection to the car is the power via the cigarrette lighter.

You can put it into another car simply by unplugging the power cord from the cigarette lighter. The current Road Angel units sit on your dash via a high-friction mat. No sticky tape, suckers or adhesive is required. The laser alert is fixed to your windscreen via a sucker and it has one cable that plugs into the Road Angel unit. Ideally, the unit should be updated once a week from your PC. The unit is supplied with a 9-pin serial cable for this purpose.

I' m about to buy the Road Angel + Laser Alert so if any others are interested we can try for a bulk purchase (as ferozboxter has already said).

It should be noted that the Road Angel is a GPS-based unit - it is *not* a radar detector (unless the radar is actually a laser gun). Being a GPS unit, it stores the positions of all known fixed cameras and warns you when you are near one (whether or not the camera is still there). However, it is generally considered a very good unit, particularly if you live in a city centre where a real radar detector will give many false alerts from sliding doors, phone masts, mobile phones, etc.

Taz