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ar0ck · 11-08-2005, 03:56 PM

This is not a flame to cops, its just Ironic.

So I was going to take my dog to the dog run to play outside, & get Sal (Kojak) who lives around the corner to come with me. So I go around the block pick him up, and exit a block up, as I make a left onto the main road (my street) a cop drives by looking at me, I think nothing of it, make my turn and casually drive down the street, when he comes SOARING up behind me! He pulled me over infront of my own house!!!

I was just mind boggled to why I was being pulled over, and he comes up to my car and asks "What happened to your front plate?" I simply replied "I had an accident along time ago and just never fixed it", he just replies "well hows your driving record?" so he checks my lisence & registration and comes back to tell me that he put it down that I recieved a verbal warning, and that if I get pulled over again it will come up and I will get a ticket for it. The cop was real polite, but I was just mind bogled!

I find it strange because, A) this is my home town for the past 17 years. B) Its been exactly 3 years since I got my drivers lisence. C) Almost 3 years since my last ticket! D) Exactly 1 year that I have been driving without a front lisence plate.

In the past year I could not imagine the amount of cops I have passed without a front plate, and I got pulled over for it in my own town... Today I went to NY state and I passed a hand-full of cops and not one budged!

I could push it and probably go another year without the plate and just have that little chip on my shoulder, or I can just nig rig it to my radiator intake duct thingy.

Squirrel · 11-08-2005, 04:08 PM

which side of your windshield is it in?

Tsar · 11-08-2005, 04:14 PM

at least you didnt get a ticket

misterjuice · 11-08-2005, 04:28 PM

honestly, why are you bitching.......??? the law dictates front plate.........you don't have it on. nuff said.

You know the law, you broke it........deal with the consequences.

12secondv6 · 11-08-2005, 04:51 PM

<--- alex

You sir... are a rebel without a clue!

JL8Jeff · 11-08-2005, 05:10 PM

I had one of those inspection extension cards in my windshield and the cop didn't see it. He came whipping around almost running several people off the road just to pull me over in front of my house. This was a state cop too. He came back to my car and says "you're overdue for inspection" and I showed him the extension card sitting plainly in the window. Then he looks at it and says "it's past due also". I look at it and show him it gave me 30 extra days and there were still 20 left. He finally left. They can be a pain sometimes over stupid little things. But if you give them a blatant reason to pull you over, they eventually will.

jims69camaro · 11-08-2005, 05:42 PM

yeah, i think each person is given a certain amount of luck at the beginning of their lives. if they use it all up then they won't have it when they need it.

i'd say put the plate on. if you happen to get that same cop he will take it personally (lack of respect) that you didn't heed his warning. then be prepared for an orifice check.

Savage_Messiah · 11-08-2005, 08:04 PM

put mine back on for inspection, tryign to find the bracket now because I realized that the car looking a little better isn't worth one more reason to get pulled over or put a cop over the edge between lettign you off and giving you a ticket. Deal with the consequences or change the situation as you see fit.

unstable bob gable · 11-08-2005, 08:53 PM

If you keep the chip on your sholder some other cop might come around and knock it off...

LS1Hawk · 11-08-2005, 09:25 PM

What if you have collector's registration...does it work the same as historic where you're not required to have the front plate? Just curious because I got collector's on my car last month and been driving around without the front plate since and passed cops and haven't had a problem.

JL8Jeff · 11-08-2005, 09:27 PM

You get 2 QQ plates so you're required to have them on the front and back. It's a good reason to get pulled over. I hate having front plates on some of the cars I've had but whatever, it's NJ.

coldkilla · 11-09-2005, 02:53 AM

are you allowed to keep the plate in the front window if its visable?

jims69camaro · 11-09-2005, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by coldkilla

are you allowed to keep the plate in the front window if its visable?

i've had my balls busted many times for this. i had been involved in an accident and it shattered the bracket in the front. i told the cop all of this, but he said i couldn't drive the car unless the license plate was attached to the bumper, at least 12" above the ground. i found a couple of sheet metal screws and screwed it to the bumper, but i was not a happy camper. he didn't write me a ticket, which was a saving grace, but he was going to impound the car if i didn't put the front plate on it.

so, no, the windshield is not the proper place for the plate. you can get a way with it for so long - but then you will run into the cop who will give you a hard time about it and might even write you a ticket for it.

there's regulations in the DMV book on registrations and stuff about the plate. years ago when people first started jacking their pickups up, they had to make a special bracket sometimes in order to get the plate mounted within the spec stated in the law about plates. higher than 12" from the ground and lower than 30" from the ground, i think is what it says. if you do a search on the DMV website i know you'll find the spec.

coldkilla · 11-09-2005, 12:04 PM

lame, the license plate just destroys the look of the 4th gen bird

Koll · 11-09-2005, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by coldkilla

lame, the license plate just destroys the look of the 4th gen bird

IROCZBeast · 11-10-2005, 10:13 AM

As far as I know I'm pretty sure those "warnings" mean nothing.

Its a let me scare you by thinking people are looking for you tactic cops use. I know people that have received "warnings" then were pulled over again and it didn't show up on their record.

just my .02 cents.

p.s. - front plate sucks

Tsar · 11-10-2005, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by coldkilla

lame, the license plate just destroys the look of the 4th gen bird

yea tell me about it

LS1Hawk · 11-11-2005, 03:15 PM

Okay....Today I was out in my car. I went up through Mahwah, Franklin Lakes, and back to Oakland. I passed three cops, one in each of the towns. One cop was at a corner waiting to turn, the two others passed me straight on coming the other way. Now they had to have seen that I had no front plate, but none of them stopped me. It seems to me that most cops don't care. I think the only way you'll get pulled over for it is if there's a cop that's just looking to pull someone over. I mean three cops in three different towns, and nothing happened? Maybe we should find a cop and ask him, because this is confusing me

Mike · 11-11-2005, 03:20 PM

putting the plate in the window is the worst thing to do....because now you are blatantly ignoring the law.

there is any number of reasons that it may not be on the front bumper, but if they see it in the window it just makes them realize that its not a car from another state.........