How is your front license plate installed?
Track Junkie
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From: Los Angeles
Originally Posted by NZConvertible
Everything with you guys has to be a "kit" doesn't it? 
There's no such thing, they simply screw the plate into the bumper where they want it or fab up some brackets. Even if such a kit existed, actually paying to import one would be madness...
There's no such thing, they simply screw the plate into the bumper where they want it or fab up some brackets. Even if such a kit existed, actually paying to import one would be madness...
HAILERS
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From: FORT WORTH, TEXAS,USA
***Well I just got pulled over for having no license plate in the front of my ******
Don't feel lonely. That happened to me this week. They use the lack of a front plate for just cause to stop you and interrogate you. I'm of the belief they are hoping to find stolen things in your car or drugs and make a easy arrest. In other words they're out there fishing and you/I have given them an opening, so to speak. I'm not anti cop or anything...it's just the way things are/work in life.
Three weeks ago they stopped me at 2am a half block from my house .......supposedly for not making a left turn signal in my neighborhood. While one cop checked up on my arrest record, the other in a round about way explained how they were looking for mischief makers in my neighbor hood (read THIEVES{Thiefs??} sp. and the lack of a turn signal gave them the opening to stop me with cause.
Anyway, my front plate still resides in the rear near the spare tire....under the carpet.
Don't feel lonely. That happened to me this week. They use the lack of a front plate for just cause to stop you and interrogate you. I'm of the belief they are hoping to find stolen things in your car or drugs and make a easy arrest. In other words they're out there fishing and you/I have given them an opening, so to speak. I'm not anti cop or anything...it's just the way things are/work in life.
Three weeks ago they stopped me at 2am a half block from my house .......supposedly for not making a left turn signal in my neighborhood. While one cop checked up on my arrest record, the other in a round about way explained how they were looking for mischief makers in my neighbor hood (read THIEVES{Thiefs??} sp. and the lack of a turn signal gave them the opening to stop me with cause.
Anyway, my front plate still resides in the rear near the spare tire....under the carpet.
~*Serendipity*~
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From: New Jersey
That's strange. I never got pulled over before. Which is a good thing since I haven't yet gotten Jersey inspection yet (bought in Pennsylvania) and my license is on my dashboard. So far no problems...
Rotorphile.
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From: Richmond/NoVA
After a couple tickets, I decided I needed to do something. The studs in the stock mount location where rusted to hell (they weren't used since the previous owner moved to Florida in '92) so I grabbed a couple self-tapping screws and went to work. The goal was to not block the radiator, and not stick over the hood.
I'm a boost creep...
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From: Auckland, New Zealand
Originally Posted by deltr0n`
no, acutally I just like things that belong, not some lame halfass homemade "bracket"...
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From: Bowling Green, Ohio
Victoria British sells a front plate bracket pretty cheap, I think... (Don't have the catalog handy to givce you a price.)
Even though Ohio law requires front plates, I never got pulled-over in my 7, Miata, or mr2 without them... Moved to a college town in NW Ohio, and immediately got stopped on may way home from work at 11 PM in a frickin Olds 88 for no plate...
Even though Ohio law requires front plates, I never got pulled-over in my 7, Miata, or mr2 without them... Moved to a college town in NW Ohio, and immediately got stopped on may way home from work at 11 PM in a frickin Olds 88 for no plate...
Buy my car.
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From: Whitinsville, MA
Ahh, a fellow Rochesterian. My S4 came with a little metal bracket (looks factory) that sticks out and up from the openings in the front of the bumper. If you are desperate, you can order it from Mazdatrix.
http://www.mazdatrix.com/getprice.as...m=50-1400-FB01
http://www.mazdatrix.com/getprice.as...m=50-1400-FB01
What plate? I've never had a front on any of my cars. The cops don't care. I drive past sheriffs and troopers all day. Never once had a problem. I was pulled over once for toasting a 'red' light, nm it was yellow when i went thru. I got a warning for it, and the officer noted I had no front plate, but he said with a car like this I wouldnt want to wreck the looks with a front plate. So he ignored it. Never ever had a problem since.
Seduced by the DARK SIDE
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From: Orange Park FL (near Jax)
I liked the way some Japanese race shop mounted it on a hinge so when your at speed it folds back into the grill opening.
Sort of like Toomuch4you above with the hinge at the top of the plate.
Sort of like Toomuch4you above with the hinge at the top of the plate.
Last edited by SureShot; Aug 10, 2004 at 06:55 AM.
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From: Rochester NY
Originally Posted by drcoopster
Ahh, a fellow Rochesterian. My S4 came with a little metal bracket (looks factory) that sticks out and up from the openings in the front of the bumper. If you are desperate, you can order it from Mazdatrix.
http://www.mazdatrix.com/getprice.as...m=50-1400-FB01
http://www.mazdatrix.com/getprice.as...m=50-1400-FB01
Buy my car.
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From: Whitinsville, MA
I'm in Henrietta now, but I'm originally from the Blackstone Valley (Massachusetts) area.
I love that hinge idea, I might have to give it a shot. I've tried the dashboard thing before (on my volvo) but the authorities were none to pleased. But that was in Massachusetts ...
I love that hinge idea, I might have to give it a shot. I've tried the dashboard thing before (on my volvo) but the authorities were none to pleased. But that was in Massachusetts ...
