This standard specifies the classification, performance requirements and test methods of the plates and labels used on road vehicles for stating the vehicle information.
This standard is applicable to various types of plates and labels used on road vehicles for stating vehicle manufacture information, warning information, operating and indicating information.
This standard is not applicable to the vehicle identifications directly formed by means of punching, etching, casting, spraying or printing on the vehicle or its component body or sewing on component body.
This standard is not applicable to the identifications, which are removable before the vehicle puts into normal use and which is applied on the vehicle or its component during production, transportation and delivery.
Various types of plates and labels intended for vehicle parts, components and assemblies may use this standard as a reference.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
GB/T 250 Textiles - Tests for color fastness - Grey scale for assessing change in color
GB/T 3280 Cold rolled stainless steel plate, sheet and strip
GB/T 13306 Plates
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
plate
marker of a rigid structure with vehicle information, which is installed at vehicle through riveting, welding, tape sticking, etc. and classified into metal plate and nonmetal plate
3.2
label
marker of a flexible structure with vehicle information, which is installed at vehicle through sticking and classified by application position into engine compartment label, exposed exterior label, non-exposed exterior label, exposed interior label, non-exposed interior label and engine/transmission label
GB/T 25978-2018 The following standards are cited：
