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Feb 8, 2008 | 07:33 PM

#26

Deviant

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From: Southern IL

Quote:

Originally Posted by DME

He was probably lying. The front plate has always been a convenient target for radar guns as it is reflective and, depending on the car, maybe the only vertical surface on the car.

You ever see a cop aim a radar gun? What do you think he's aiming at?

Dave

If a cop can accurately aim an invisible beam of light at a 6" by 10" piece of metal, attached to the front of an object traveling at 60+mph then traffic enforcement is not where he needs to be. Everything on your car that's not angled at 45 degrees to the Radar gun or painted with lead paint will reflect some energy back to the gun.
There's a lot of cars that simply couldn't accept a Euro plate so tooling for that style in the US would require the states to be able to make both style of plates from now on. The funny thing is, when I was in Germany, a lot of the American car fans wanted US plates:

Feb 8, 2008 | 08:06 PM

#27

Bunny318

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From: mantec ca

The cop arfen't always aiming at the plate. Our Mini doesn't have a front plate, and Jim got nailed in a speed trap with the cop getting a reading from the front.

Feb 11, 2008 | 07:05 PM

#28

Kentiki

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From: Miami, FL

For all you R56 owners:

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Last edited by Kentiki; Feb 11, 2008 at 07:05 PM. Reason: spelling

Feb 12, 2008 | 09:03 AM

#29

rdwatt

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 89AKurt

The government doesn't care what they look like.

But Arizona doesn't require a front plate, so that's half the problem solved. If you can get your state to drop the front plate, that would save resources (that should be the tactic, not aethestics).
Good luck!

+1 Front plates are out of date!