Got pulled over for no front plate
06-29-2008, 06:20 AM
#11
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Join Date: 09-13-2006
Location: USA
Posts: 378
In Massachusetts, if you are given tow plates by the RMV, you are required to have both on the vehicle. We still have an older series of single plates left over from the late 70's that are still active, but that's your only excuse. My plates....I was issued Firefighter Memorial plates last year. They took years to get the registry to produce, and I am a retired firefighter, so I am more than proud to display them. The money collected these paid for a monument to recognize firefighters killed in the line of duty that was unveiled behind the statehouse in Boston last September. A long overdue, fitting tribute and a very worthwile cause.
BTW - In Massachusetts, specialty plates are an additional 40 dollars above the regular fee. This extra money goes to the cause being recognized by these special plates. We are up to 16 different plates these days. Check'em out.
http://www.mass.gov/rmv/express/plates.htm
BTW - In Massachusetts, specialty plates are an additional 40 dollars above the regular fee. This extra money goes to the cause being recognized by these special plates. We are up to 16 different plates these days. Check'em out.
http://www.mass.gov/rmv/express/plates.htm
06-30-2008, 08:00 AM
#13
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Join Date: 06-09-2008
Location: Saint Clair, MO
Posts: 344
In MO
Here in Missouri the greatest thing I've found about plates is that retired military get FREE military plates...including the customization!!! Can you believe that. Sad thing is I'm still active duty so I have to pay $15. My wife pays out the nose for her St. Louis Cardinals plates though...good thing I'm a Cubs fan.
06-30-2008, 08:01 AM
#14
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Join Date: 06-29-2008
Location: Colorado
Posts: 272
NY requires a front plate but I just couldn't bring myself to let the dealer install it. I don't un one on my TA. I was on my way home from the grocery store and .7 mile from home, He did let me go but scolded me for it but seemd to buy my lame excuse that when I got it the dealer didn't have the bracket.
I have to decide if I'm going to install it or not. I drive my 5-10 cops a day on local roads an none seem to care but since it's my daily driver I don't really want to keep getting hassled.
I have to decide if I'm going to install it or not. I drive my 5-10 cops a day on local roads an none seem to care but since it's my daily driver I don't really want to keep getting hassled.
06-30-2008, 08:46 AM
#15
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Join Date: 06-02-2008
Location: Fairport Harbor, OH
Posts: 2,358
That's what you get!
Actually, my 30 day tag just expired, and I only have the back plate. The front bracket has pop-revets with it. Like I have a pop-rivet tool. So I have to take it to the dealer to have them intall the stupid bracket. Unless I can figure out a way to mount neodyum magnets behind the fascia and just stick it on there.
07-01-2008, 04:07 AM
#17
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Join Date: 09-13-2006
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07-01-2008, 04:12 AM
#18
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got a couple of cans of matching victory red and painted the plate frame... clear coated ... used carbon fiber plate cover... cut and trimmed the mounting frame so that the plate frame would fit flush
i think it looks ok
have to have a front plate anyway... make it look nice
i think it looks ok
have to have a front plate anyway... make it look nice
