Keep getting harassed for plates
05-12-2011, 03:55 AM
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What is it with y'all and wanting to have no front plate? Why not have no plates at all ? If you want to be plateless, why limit it only to the front?
05-12-2011, 04:47 AM
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+1000 I don't get it either. To summarize the first post it goes like this : "I keep breaking the law and these cops keep hassling me for it, and for that I think they're assholes".
What is it with y'all and wanting to have no front plate? Why not have no plates at all ? If you want to be plateless, why limit it only to the front?
What is it with y'all and wanting to have no front plate? Why not have no plates at all ? If you want to be plateless, why limit it only to the front?
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05-12-2011, 05:34 AM
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Your problem now, whether you like it or not, is that you have a reputation with at least this one cop. You likely will have to find a way to comply. You can do the flip plate but that might buy you one visit by him, the next time he pulls you over it will be because he paid closer attention. If he finds you purposefully adding the plate only after he pulls you over get ready...
I had a cop in my neighborhood that pulled me over for tint too dark on my suburban... 5% everywhere. I mentioned that I have family in law enforcement and he was fine, let me go with a verbal warning. A week later he pulls me over again and asks why I hadn't yet taken care of it. Another warning and off I go. He pulls me over a third time after a stop light... says "what color was the light when you went through it?" I look back, it's still green. "ok then, I see your tint is still on the truck. This is my last professional courtesy." I honestly didn't want to deal with it anymore, 15 years I had driven without anybody caring about 5% tint and this guy does. Well, at this point he's the only guy I have to worry about and I don't want the trouble. I changed the fronts to 35% and lived with it. Easier to deal with a look that isn't exactly what I want than being pulled over constantly.
This guy is going to keep on you until you do something about it permanently... at this point it's personal for him.
I had a cop in my neighborhood that pulled me over for tint too dark on my suburban... 5% everywhere. I mentioned that I have family in law enforcement and he was fine, let me go with a verbal warning. A week later he pulls me over again and asks why I hadn't yet taken care of it. Another warning and off I go. He pulls me over a third time after a stop light... says "what color was the light when you went through it?" I look back, it's still green. "ok then, I see your tint is still on the truck. This is my last professional courtesy." I honestly didn't want to deal with it anymore, 15 years I had driven without anybody caring about 5% tint and this guy does. Well, at this point he's the only guy I have to worry about and I don't want the trouble. I changed the fronts to 35% and lived with it. Easier to deal with a look that isn't exactly what I want than being pulled over constantly.
This guy is going to keep on you until you do something about it permanently... at this point it's personal for him.
05-12-2011, 06:16 AM
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Are you 16? Sorry you cant get away with a euro plate" on the front of your car. Needing a plate does not mean any old plate it means your registered liscense plate. Cant believe someone even has to tell you this. You can use 3M tape to put it on your front bumper-that is what I have done for 2 years and it comes off easily (I just removed mine after 2 years with no scratch or damage to the bumper) YOu need the extra strengh industrial 3m tape.
I guess I'll have to get that flip plate thing.
05-12-2011, 06:24 AM
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Or try little suction cups to temporary mount it and dismount it till you get ticket and go to the police station and have them sign it off as being mounted. That is what I did before and paint the back side of the suction to black so it looks like screws.
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Are you 16? Sorry you cant get away with a euro plate" on the front of your car. Needing a plate does not mean any old plate it means your registered liscense plate. Cant believe someone even has to tell you this. You can use 3M tape to put it on your front bumper-that is what I have done for 2 years and it comes off easily (I just removed mine after 2 years with no scratch or damage to the bumper) YOu need the extra strengh industrial 3m tape.
Phil, ignore Diamond please, he's a douchebag that wasn't loved much as a child. He's taking it out on everyone he meets now.
The flip out plate thing is a great idea
05-12-2011, 08:57 AM
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