Are you using a registration with fewer characters, or just "shrinking" a standard seven character plate?
If you go ahead with this, could you post a photo please?
Seeing this sort of thing really does put me off keeping my 370 long term, which is unfortunate.
Okay, mine is only five years old at the end of this year, but I've recently been told that it's not a case of "if", but "when", the rot sets in.