[KevinC]

I find it amusing that you NEVER hear a European complain about being required to display a front plate.

[///MPhatic]

Originally Posted by KevinC

I find it amusing that you NEVER hear a European complain about being required to display a front plate.

I don't find it amusing, I find it interesting since their front plates are the very worst IMO. Maybe they don't get upset about it because they have no taste? lol



J/K

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by bmwspice

Over 20 years, I’ve never been pulled over for it.

I have been pulled over for something else and got a warning for the moving violation and a fixit-ticket for the plate. Where I live getting it dismissed is super easy barely an inconvenience

I do avoid parking anywhere with meters bc meter maids do ticket for it. Actual cops don’t care.

Originally Posted by Kilabyte

Got pulled over the first week of owning the car. Decided to go for the tow hook mount instead of drilling holes. I know it's not for everyone. You can probably barely see it in the sig pic because of the angle.

MA used to have rear plates only but that changed in the 90s.

This wrap thing looks horrible IMO.

I got a ticket in Nebraska for no front plate! I guess he couldn't get me for speeding (THANKS radar detector) so he gave me a fix-it-ticket. When he came up to the car I heard over his radio "affirmative, California."

[leopard print]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

I got a ticket in Nebraska for no front plate! I guess he couldn't get me for speeding (THANKS radar detector) so he gave me a fix-it-ticket. When he came up to the car I heard over his radio "affirmative, California."

Hahahaha.

[PYE46M3]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

I got a ticket in Nebraska for no front plate! I guess he couldn't get me for speeding (THANKS radar detector) so he gave me a fix-it-ticket. When he came up to the car I heard over his radio "affirmative, California."

funny you mention this ! years ago I was driving from CA to MI and Nebraska state trooper pulled me over on the highway for not having a front license plate on a CA registered car. I was like are you fookin serious? you trying to enforce laws of another state? he gave me a fix it ticket.... Like I am gonna fix it and drive back to nebraska to show it was fixed. GTFO

[Kilabyte]

Originally Posted by PYE46M3

funny you mention this ! years ago I was driving from CA to MI and Nebraska state trooper pulled me over on the highway for not having a front license plate on a CA registered car. I was like are you fookin serious? you trying to enforce laws of another state? he gave me a fix it ticket.... Like I am gonna fix it and drive back to nebraska to show it was fixed. GTFO

That's EXACTLY why they do it. My family and a bunch of their friends own homes in FL and tend to drive down occasionally. Virginia is officially known to be the worst state to go through, it's like they pull over any car with New England plates that is doing 2 miles over. It's done for that same reason.

[IsleOfMs]

Originally Posted by PYE46M3

funny you mention this ! years ago I was driving from CA to MI and Nebraska state trooper pulled me over on the highway for not having a front license plate on a CA registered car. I was like are you fookin serious? you trying to enforce laws of another state? he gave me a fix it ticket.... Like I am gonna fix it and drive back to nebraska to show it was fixed. GTFO

Not out of state but I got pulled over 200 miles out of town. I was doing 75 in a 75 with a trailer (so 75 in a 55) ((it’s a very stupid CA thing that clogs the highways with truckers)). Anyway, all I had to do was drive to a police station 2 miles from my house and have a cop there confirm I mounted a plate and sign the ticket. Mailed the ticket to the town where I got the ticket. Easy peasy. Took less than 10 minutes and didn’t cost me a thing.

[Maynard]

I run the US Millworks, with the quick release; very solid. The QR feature lets you swap it in/out without any tools. So to be perfectly accurate, I constantly 'forget to put it back on' and keep it in the trunk, so if I were to ever get stopped, or need to use meters, I could put it on in under 5 minutes. Never gotten stopped, and only put it on a few times for trips downstate to the hoity regions where meters are everywhere. FWIW, the wife inherited my first 2'er and keeps her Milworks on 24/7; they hold up excellent, never shifted or got loose (2+years now).

[SpeedBuggy]

Not fond of the wrap, maybe if the area where the plate was flat and no curves unlike the photo where the plate wraps up over a body curve. More of a fan of the bracket that fits into the tow hook.

Ohio just removed the front license plate requirement, so just had the front bumper cover repaired and repainted since the car had the front license mount attached to the front bumper. Still trying to get used to seeing the front end without the plate.

[dradernh]

"California spent over seven years testing the front plate wrap concept starting with highway patrol cars."

This makes sense. I mean, you want to make sure you've got it right before rolling it out.

I now live in a state that hands over two plates, but the front isn't required to be displayed. Being obsessed with front aero as I am, my car rolls without the front plate.

Originally Posted by SpeedBuggy

Still trying to get used to seeing the front end without the plate.

Yeah, I struggled with that, too. It took me about 14 minutes to get used to not having this weird attachment on the front end of the car.

[mjr24]

No front plate would get you pulled over a decent amount 15 years ago. However, it's pretty fucking pathetic if a cop pulls you over for it in today's world….they should be out doing way more important stuff and just about every community nowadays has more important stuff going on. Hence, I can't remember the last time I've been pulled over for it (I haven't had front plates in 20 years or so). That being said, they will use no front plate as a reason to pull you over in a minute if they suspect you might have more interesting stuff going on (meaning driving drunk, carrying drugs or weapons, etc.).