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Ticket!
Guess what guys...i got a ticket today......for not displaying my front licence plate!...i really believe in the end of the week theory !
1 more thing....own up----the owner of the white coupe with c7 and charcoal cloth interior parked at the shrine today...i saw you!
haha
1 more thing....own up----the owner of the white coupe with c7 and charcoal cloth interior parked at the shrine today...i saw you!
haha
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From: The blue white rock, third out.
2002 C230 Coupe(M111)
I hate that kinda crap. The front plate looks SO stupid. What's the point, anyway? Not like anyone's gonna read that thing at 120mph closing speed, its just to save the lazy parking checkers a walk to the back of the car! I got pulled over for no front plate on my last car once...I never did put it on, I just put duct tape on the back side, stuck it to the nose, they looked out the window and signed my ticket! hehehe. Then I went out there, and unstuck it 
and drove home.
and drove home.
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From: Diamond Bar, CA
W206 PHEV AMG
haha...my dad got one of those ticket for his ML430 too. we had the license rack removed (originally it was on there). Good thing it wasn't a fix it ticket for us because we can't find the license rack.
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From: SF South Bay
2002 C230 Coupe
Originally posted by Outland
Not like anyone's gonna read that thing at 120mph closing speed, its just to save the lazy parking checkers a walk to the back of the car!
Not like anyone's gonna read that thing at 120mph closing speed, its just to save the lazy parking checkers a walk to the back of the car!
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From: Dexter, Michigan, USA
2002 C230k
In Michigan, the state doen't even give you a front plate! 
(Though yo can buy one if you'd like!)
When I was in high school (different state that requires two plates) a friend had a Corvette with some custom work done, the new front end had no place for a front plate. He got pulled over one day, the cop walked to the front of the car, saw there was no plate, and all he did was say "hmm..." and walked around to the back of the car to get the number. Never even mentioned it to the kid!
So there are some cops out there who understand...
(Though yo can buy one if you'd like!)When I was in high school (different state that requires two plates) a friend had a Corvette with some custom work done, the new front end had no place for a front plate. He got pulled over one day, the cop walked to the front of the car, saw there was no plate, and all he did was say "hmm..." and walked around to the back of the car to get the number. Never even mentioned it to the kid!
So there are some cops out there who understand...
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From: Toledo, Ohio
Originally posted by mdp c230k
Here in communist California it is required to have a front plate so the red light cameras can take you picture from the front and show the plate and who's driving the car.
Here in communist California it is required to have a front plate so the red light cameras can take you picture from the front and show the plate and who's driving the car.
Although most of my driving is done in Michigan, I don't chance it with only one plate.
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From: Columbus, OH
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i live in ohio, I don't have a plate. i just leave it close to the front passenger seat. if i get pulled over i put it on the front window, and tell the cop that someone ripped off the front mounting brackets.
i know kali is strict though.
i know kali is strict though.
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From: Toledo, Ohio
Originally posted by jamesy1010
i live in ohio, I don't have a plate. i just leave it close to the front passenger seat. if i get pulled over i put it on the front window, and tell the cop that someone ripped off the front mounting brackets.
i know kali is strict though.
i live in ohio, I don't have a plate. i just leave it close to the front passenger seat. if i get pulled over i put it on the front window, and tell the cop that someone ripped off the front mounting brackets.
i know kali is strict though.
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Originally posted by C230Jeff
EDIT: BTW, this is exactly why those smoked plastic license plate covers have been outlawed here, because it diffuses the holographic reflection.
EDIT: BTW, this is exactly why those smoked plastic license plate covers have been outlawed here, because it diffuses the holographic reflection.
I know that's a horrible thing to say, dirty your MB, but most licence plates use reflective paint which is just as bad as the hologram.
There's other tricks to avoid radar, like slightly tilting your licence plate towards the ground, thus all reflected light/radar hits the ground. No cop should ever notice this, my front plate has been bent for 2 years and I've gotten numerous parking tickets, but never anything said about the front plate.
Or if you want to really get creative, take some sandpaper, hammer, and artificially age your plates so they lose that new shiny quality that radar loves. Or run them over with your car, dunk them in salt water to try and corrode them, whatever works. I guess ugly plates on a MB is just as bad as dirt...
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From: Ashburn, VA
'19 GLC 300, '19 TM3SR+
Originally posted by taylor192
There's other tricks to avoid radar, like slightly tilting your licence plate towards the ground, thus all reflected light/radar hits the ground.
There's other tricks to avoid radar, like slightly tilting your licence plate towards the ground, thus all reflected light/radar hits the ground.
Last edited by vadim; Aug 31, 2002 at 11:12 PM.
