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Old Aug 3, 2008 | 11:15 AM
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Front license plate laws

If I decide not to put a front license plate on my car (due to the esthetics) will cops really enforce the infraction? I got away with it in California for years. I got one ticket for $15 and I just paid it, never putting the plate on.
 
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Old Aug 3, 2008 | 11:32 AM
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also, where do you buy the metal brackets that go under your rear bumper for safety inspection stickers? Thanks!
 
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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 02:03 AM
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also, where do you buy the metal brackets that go under your rear bumper for safety inspection stickers? Thanks!
I think I picked mine up at NAPA.
 
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 11:47 AM
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How about the front plate enforcement? Are there a lot of cars without? Are cops cool about those kinds of things or are there too many ricers that abuse the rules too often?
 
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Old Sep 6, 2008 | 06:20 AM
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I had an officer cite me for it. Only because he couldn't get a bead on my speed with that laser thingy. Police aim at the front plate of on-coming vehicles because of the retro-reflecto paint. It returns the laser beam really well.

Anyway, he pulls me over and asks if I have the plate in the car, perhaps in the trunk. When I say I don't, he writes a bogus speeding ticket and includes the front plate infraction. I contested and got 'em both dismissed, but if I hadn't the front plate alone would have cost me $75!

So now I ride with it in the rear footwell with a handy alibi just in case. Its the best way to do it. Just watch out when you are town-bound on the Pali, coming out of the mountains. Especially at the very last leg past the last lookout before the H-1 interchange, they like to hide in that school parking lot on the right and catch you enjoying that last serving of well paved down-hill turns. Oh the Pali!
 
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