totally agree. No needs for front plates. Even if a cop is coming on the other lane, it wud be hard to read your plates unless you going really slow. The only good reason i'll see are for cameras at stop lights.

 

i live in MD and it requires one also, but i just put it inside the car on the dash and it is fine. Tested it out as i was getting my $550 speeding ticket and the cop didnt say a word about it.

 

sorry bout the ticket, you could have used that money for some mod. I got a 125 speeding ticket the first day I got my eight. None since then. :D

 

yea i could of, but now i need to use it to keep my license. haha.

 

Has anyone had this happen??? What is the ticket/penalty? I'm sure there's a fine, but are there any points given?
If the penalty's weak, I might just take my chances....

 

I have to NY rules sucks hrse a$$ on a hot sweaty day after having the runs. I didn't have my front plate for 1 freaken week cause I just got my registration since i carried over my tags,canItellyou that mofoking a$$holke of a cop gave me a $65 ticket last night?

If you find a real solution to mounting the plate let me know I hate the way it looks on the front.

Maybe NY'ers should think about passing legislation to have the front plate banned. Think about it the only real 2 reasons to have it is because 1. the parking ticket b*tches can make their life easy to write a ticket and 2. so that the cameras that catch you running a red light can take a pic - which doesnt even count because if you noticed majority if not 100% of the cameras actually take the picture from behind.

My verdict, an easy cheap way for NY suck a huge c*ck PDto write up a few more parking tickets to fill their quotas.....

 

Bro then maybe I need to move to LI please see previous post.

PS my car was PARKED.....

 

so how do you really feel?

 

let me put it this way dunno where i say the smiley but it is one w/a gun to his mouth and blew his brains out.....thats what they should do...

 

so much anger......damn that rap music!!

 

How about putting it on the dash?
I read somewhere that someone decided to put their front plate on their dash and got a ticket. He fought it off in court because "it was still visible from 32inches from the front of the car".

 

All I know is that when the tickets reached $300 in just a few days the front plate went on.

Thankfully when I brought proof that it was fixed I only had to pay about $50.

This all happened on Long Island in a very nice neighborhood. If you get busted once in an area you frequent, put your front plate on. They will be looking for you after that. Last cop actually chased me down to give me a no license plate ticket, and I wasn't speeding.

 

the front plate is required so the cameras that take pics can get your plate and you get a ticket haha

 

i actually got pulled over last week because i didnt have my front plates and because of my tint

 

i got the ticket, paid it and still wont put it back.......

 

I removed my front plate last spring and haven't gotten a ticket. I live in Manhattan, but… my car sits in an indoor garage six days a week, so it's parked on the street maybe an hour a week, if that much. Mostly I drive out of the city to visit friends in CT and NJ.

That said, I am breaking the law, so if they ticket me I'll just pay the $65, or whatever it is.

 

honestly .... i dotn see why plates have to be hideous.... if only they had jap or euro style plates... they arent so... meh. and block less air

 

All cameras I've seen in NY state only take a picture from the rear. They have no need to take a picture of the driver like they do in Cali.

+1

 

It sucks.
It is a money making venture for police departments. If they where serious about it, the front plates would be made smaller and thinner so cars would not have a problem displaying it and hindering in on air flow to cooling systems.

A license plate is not really needed in front of a vehicle, if an officer follows a car, he needs to see the rear plate. The front plate is a obstreperous and ludicrous waste of money, resources and labor from the point of view of society, but from the point of view of the establishment [ local/fed and state goverments ], it is a money /revenue making opportunity.

A solution that would give both sides an inteligent solution ...............( instead of goverment agencies dictating at will how to corral citizens into revenue oriented regulations that go against the constituents will , spirit of the law and intentions of said regulations , agencies which should represent the people of a nation as it was originally intended for, and which powers are powers VESTED by the grace of the constituents ) ...........should be a smaller license plate for the front of the vehicle , with only the numbers posted. The registration stickers are used on the rear plate only, so there is no need for a full size plate on front of the vehicle that has an empty area intended for the display of registration stickers as in the rear license plates.
The problem is that these agencies that have been created by the people for the purpose of securing the safety of the citizens, suddenly exercise a power never intended for it , becoming an independent monster, like a Doberman Pinscher dog bitting it's master.

We should vote for a law to force all policemen driving a police car to wear fire suits and full helmets...... in the name of "SAFETY" let's give them a piece of their own "RETHORIC MANIPULATION" Who cares if it is 95 degrees and humid as hell, in the name of "SAFETY" we can not afford to have officers chasing vehicles with out protection.
Any officer that refuses or pledges a position of opposition to this measure would be branded an "ANTISOCIAL" officer who puts his own interests and whims before "SAFETY FOR THE COMMUNITY"

That said, I took my plate off. I know how these cops are, I do not park on LA streets, and when I go there for work, I park in office building 's parking lots.

I will install mine on the side, bellow the side vent/oil cooler vent. I will post pictures upon completion.

Jaime.____________________________________________ _______________

 

i just paid $255 for a no front plate ticket..

 

$255 for ONE ticket?? Was this from a Nassau cop? I thought people were quoting $65 or so.

The risk/reward ratio changes....

 

yup, one ticket in stewart manor, long island.

 

i still have one more front plate ticket that i got back in august on broadway in the city but i don't have to worry about that til april.

 

That sucks......

PS, go to the meet tomorrow!
https://www.rx8club.com/ne-rx-8-forum-29/li-dave-busters-meet-february-23-a-137369/

 

I'm with ChrisM Fu*k the front plate, I wont put it on.