Sooo.... I finally got pulled over for my front plate after 2 long years of having it mounted on a hinge. I've had a cop mentiopn it before but he said it was genious because all the law said was that it had to be mounted to the frontmost part of the car. Well the bored asshat today proved me wrong that the law also states it should be horizontal and visibal at all times. Well it ALS0 states that you can run without a front plate and get it approved by the WSP. Well where the **** are you supposed to go toget it approved. I fugure all FB and FD owners might have a good case to get the front plate waved because Mazda is nolonger supplying the mounting brackets for the car.
p.s. Oh and I didn't get a ticket. I was honest with the cop and told him it was like that for airflow, it was a car that was raced almost every weeked, and that another cop told me it was brilliant and legal, and I hadn't been stoped in 2 years for it. He showed me the law and asked me to fix it. I still think it's a stupid law, and so do 19 other states. (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia and the territories Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands. In Nevada, front plates are optional if the vehicle was not designed for a front plate and the manufacturer did not provide an add-on bracket or other means of displaying the front plate.)

Here's the RCW: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.16.240
If anyone knows that would be sweet and I'll try it out tomorrow.

edit:
Google for the win!
http://www.wsp.wa.gov/traveler/vinspect.htm
http://www.wsp.wa.gov/traveler/docs/..._locations.pdf

 

I'm confused what does a vin inspection have to do with getting permission to not have a front plate?

 

Thats the *****! My car has screwsa through the bumper already, PO put em there. But if you don't have a mount already, they shouldn't force you to alter your car.

 

i have my plate in the windshield of my evo, and i tried that not altering the car, and the cop was a ***** and told me to drill holes in my bumper. i still havent i dont wannt put it up front.

 

you have to get the car inspected by WSP to get the okay for that. I think they give you paper work to carry with you in case you get pulled over. Having it in the window just makes you look like you know you're doing something wrong. Once you get the okay you can throw the front plate in the trash.

 

Well technically, by the law you posted, it doesn't say where on the front of the vehicle it has to be "hung". the only stipulation is it has to be vertical, visible at all times, and no more than 4' off the ground. in that rcw it does not mention anything about affixing to bumper or forward most point of the vehicle. so technically if you mounted the license plate vertical in the windshield and it was lower than 4', how is that illegal by what the law says?

 

lol I just keep my front plate in the passenger bin and ask them how I would mount it when the car came with no front plate... And there is no bracket and nowhere I would put it. I'm not drilling holes in my car to appease one ******* cop who would give a ticket for no front plate.

 

Most people don't "mount" the plate in the front windshield, they just set it up there and "that is very dangerous. If you get in an accident it's going to come flying out and chop someone's head off!" to quote idiot cops who think all society is going to believe them...

Adrian, I don't see anything about having a license plate absent being approved, but you did find the proper avenue for Vin inspections and you'd want to do yours in District 2, which I'm sure your reading comprehension is well enough that you deciphered that. Just tell them it's a "homemade" car lol

 

" In cases where the body construction of the vehicle is such that compliance with this section is impossible, permission to deviate therefrom may be granted by the state patrol"
where else would you get your permissions granted other than the state patrol inspection stations?

 

I just don't see anything regarding those policies, but that I would assume would be the only place where you could acquire such permissions

 

okay I understand now, I just didn't think a vin inspection would be the right avenue for it. Good luck hope it is, if not you could also try calling the state patrol an requesting to speak to one of their officers he could possible come out an do an "on the scene inspection" just a random guess though.

 

When I had my plate on, I ran it chopped up and hanging off the bottom of my front rubber trim off the bumper and never got called on it and it was touching the ground in most places lol

 

Well mine has been mounted as it is for like 2 years now and that was the firs cop to say anything about it and i've probably been pulled over 3-4 other times for tother things and noone even mentioned it. I love getting pulled over for the exhaust and then proving it's legal.

 

let me know how this works out, I hate front plates, they just look tacky

 

better then me I'm running a JDM plate on the front of my B2K I've been pulled over for that once in two years. LOL funny thing is I've been pulled over for the rear one twice in one week for having it lit up. I also have the standered WA rear plate that was lit up also. haha o well Don't sweet it most of the time they will give you a ticket if your doing something else wrong and well play dumb that always works.

 

Were you the dude at rocko a while back with the b2000 with jdm plates or is there more than one

 

haha I'm still rocking the b2000. LOL

 

Well, you could get a 79' and go register it as a classic, so you don't have to have a plate on the front.

 

Ummm Correction on that. Anything that is 25 years and older can have a collector plate. my truck is gettin one on 1/2/11 only 11 more months to go