Especially on sports cars. Most cars are not even designed to have a designated front license plate area, so it just makes the plate look tacked on.
How do you guys who live in states that mandate front licenses deal with it?
You are.
Now, there are enough people that don't have one where you won't stand out and I'd wager most cops don't care that much BUT...
In the city of Chicago, they're actively on the hunt for these types of extremely important and critical infractions. Tinted windows too. They have teams that even enter private garages to look for infractions. O'Hare and Midway lots are also canvassed on a regular basis.
In the past year I've moved to NY, a state that says you need front plates. Getting all my cars up here was a pain in the ass to get them shipped.
All of them took to the front plates fairly well.
I'm wasn't about to ruin the look of my Corvette.
So, I was mature about it and just never put a front plate on.
Its a whole 130 dollar fine * makes beating off motion * if you get pulled over without it. So I don't care. And it doesn't cost you any points in your license.
If that rule is ever changed and it does cost points, I'll get one of these
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Are you allowed to place your license plate inside the car behind the windshield on the passenger side? I've seen a lot of cars like that, many of them being boosted cars with large intercoolers showing in the front.
I don't really care that much about it. What really ruins the look on cars are the license plate frames that dealers give out with their names and logo on it.
Thats the first thing I always take off, that and Catalytic converters. Weld in a hollow pipe instead.
Thats the first thing I always take off, that and Catalytic converters. Weld in a hollow pipe instead.
I'm no longer in my teens or 20s so my car is no longer an extension of my penis.
Why do you take off your catalytic converter? They help reduce NOx emissions which creates smog. Just leave it on, imo. Not worth the "sound" or whatever.
Thats the first thing I always take off, that and Catalytic converters. Weld in a hollow pipe instead.
So you are among the jerks who make others smell the fuel/exhaust, put HID bulbs in reflector type housing blinding everyone, etc?
Why would I put illegal HID bulbs in my car when it already came with the legal non blinding type.
You're that type of person.
What makes you say that?
The type of people who pit blinding HID bulbs in their cars tend to be what I would refer to as a " ricer ", teenagers and young adults who try to trick out an old Japanese car. ( LOL ).
I can assure I'm not that type of person at all.
Saying you don't like a loud car that idles next to you in traffic for 2 minutes is like saying that you don't like the old people who can't figure out the selfcheck and are ahead of you in line.
It's not the noise. It's that when I am driving behind you, I have to suffer the horrible exhaust smell from your catless vehicle.
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You're that type of person because the person who puts the HID bulb in a reflector because the person wants the better bulb and doesn't care it blinds others. You remove your cats ignoring the fact others have to tolerate that smell.
LOL, reading through this thread I can clearly see that some of you regard this as an extremely trivial matter. But I've always been obsessive about design (studied architecture in college, and I'm currently working in the web design/development industry), so little details like this catch my eye.
Some of you are overblowing what I'm saying, making it look like this is one of my top priorities in life. This is just small talk.
BTW, as another poster here has mentioned, Steve Jobs also didn't like license plates, even the ones in the back.
This is kind of my point, If I'm spending almost 70,000 dollars on a beautiful sports car, I don't want some tacky plate ruining the front end.
Yeah, I agree with you. Front plates are especially bad on sports cars that have steamlined faces.
So you do complain about the same people who drive bio diesel cars that smell far worse than my car? And in many cases are even louder? Or the commercial trucks that often put out huge plumes of black smoke and smell worse and are just as and sometimes louder? Or people in mopeds or motorcycles that are much more often louder and smell even worth ( 2 strokes )?
It's tough. I'm in a support group called Front Plates Anonymous. It helps ease the pain a little.
How do you guys who live in states that mandate front licenses deal with it?