• @Bassman1805
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    1011 month ago

    Part of the confusion may come from states with different license plate rules.

    Twenty states require only a rear plate, which means drivers can legally put a novelty or decorative plate on the front. The remaining 30 states require a state-issued plate on both the front and back of the vehicle; New York is one of them.

    That may explain why law enforcement would assume a decorative “Star Trek” plate on the front of the car would be a legitimate license plate.

    This is one of the stupider “50 countries in a trench coat pretending to be one country” things we have going on. There’s no reason not to require plates on both the front and back bumper, especially when it’s opening the door for confusion with fake plates on the optional bumper.

    • @tomalley8342
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      1 month ago

      There is also no reason they can’t dismiss front plate pictures as unreliable.

    • @Voyajer
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      281 month ago

      So many vehicles in those 20 states don’t even have a front plate holder at all because they were either removed by the dealer or didn’t come with them in the first place.

      • @Graphy
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        Yeah I bought a new car last year and it doesn’t even have a mounting spot. it’s not a big deal not having two plates I’m sure one of the other 600 cameras on the drive will get me.

        For fun I looked up how I’d have to mount a front plate and it’s just gross. I’d have to drill holes into the front or buy a bracket that’d be lopsided.

        • @marlowe221
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          31 month ago

          I used two self-tapping sheet metal screws when we moved from a single-plate-on-the-back state to a double-plate state.

          There’s no holder but…. That’s pretty much decorative anyway.

        • @[email protected]
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          115 days ago

          “lopsided” font plate was almost a badge of honor back in the day lol because it meant that you had a front mount intercooler that needed air (and if you did the offset plate without an FMIC you were ridiculed endlessly for being a buffoon)

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          I’d have to drill holes into the front

          So what? That’s how it’s done at the factory too. I am also opposed to front plates but drilling into the bumper is no big deal

          • @Graphy
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            41 month ago

            Because front plates look like shit and Id rather not have to drill into my car just to make it easier on the cops?

            That’s how it’s done at the factory too.

            Wow no kidding.

            • Norah (pup/it/she)
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              129 days ago

              For fun I looked up how I’d have to mount a front plate and it’s just gross. I’d have to drill holes into the front…

              Wow no kidding.

              • @Graphy
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                129 days ago

                Nice to see you really wanted to keep this post going lol

                Almost as if there’s a difference between

                An assembly line making perfectly centered holes into a part that they’ve yet to finish painting and detailing

                versus

                my ass crouching down and praying I can get four clean pilot holes in and by some miracle the paint not start flaking

                Not to mention what if I put the plate slightly too high and it catches more wind and starts making some annoying ass whistling

                • @Cort
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                  129 days ago

                  Lol my concern would be it getting enough wind behind it and ripping it right off the bumper.

    • southsamurai
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      211 month ago

      Or just scrap double plates as an unnecessary and outdated thing.

    • @grue
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      -71 month ago

      Front plates are bad for aerodynamics/fuel efficiency.

      • @Pieisawesome
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        91 month ago

        Source? It can’t be a significant amount

        • Norah (pup/it/she)
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          229 days ago

          Considering all the massive utes with flat faces in the States, it would have exactly zero effect on those. Like maybe if you own a Ferrari I guess.

    • chingadera
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      -71 month ago

      Yeah no. The thing here is that some cars are not designed to have a front LP, and you’ve got me fucked up if you think I’m going to drill holes in a piece of art.