Or just don't use a front plate (but carry it in your trunk so that if you get pulled over for it you were "just on your way" to get the part to mount it).

Makes it look classier.

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Won't help you if the Police drive by and write the ticket on a parked car, yup! they do that in CA.
My feeling is that people that remove the plate (or the new car dealer that removes front plates) are evil without knowing it, they encourage the revenue stream that is in place where photographic devices are installed to record red light runners.
Removing front plates started with a vengenace in CA around 1999 and has since become a natural thing for people that place vanity before laws. They deserve tickets where they are being written. In FL and NV it doesn't matter but CA it does.

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Yup, I'm in NV.

Out of curiosity, why would removing your front plate encourage the revenue stream that is in place where photographic devices are installed to record red light runners?

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Some cities in Calif bought into a camera program that only use a front facing camera. Cheaper to implement I suppose.
here's an article on exactly what I meant to say
Quote: "Between our long-term vehicles and Edmunds.com employee vehicles we have noticed a rash of front license plate tickets over the past few months. Specifically, these tickets are given for not having a front license plate on your car. This has long been one of those "crimes" that most people don't worry about. Technically you're supposed to have a front license plate on your car in California, but we all know people who don't (including every Ford GT I've seen on the road...or in my garage). To many this jump in front license plate tickets seemed a coincidence, but it is in fact driven by a vicious cycle of revenue generation. First, the city of Los Angeles writes 164,000 front license plate tickets each year (often bagging people while they are parked in public places or at airports). At $25 a ticket that comes to a tidy sum of 4.1 million dollars. But while the "two plate" law has been on the books for years, the recent uptick in front license plate citations is now driven by a far more sinister power -- red light cameras. Seems the cameras don't work so well on cars without front plates, so L.A.-based police have been given a new directive: ticket every vehicle you see without a front plate. We even had one officer admit as much while writing up a co-worker, "See, we need those front plates on your vehicle for the red-light cameras to work."
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DDH
Oh, hey this reminds me! I need to replace the front impact strip along with the license plate on one of my 124's before I get nailed!

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'95 E320 Wagon my favorite road car. '99 E300D wolf in sheeps body, '87 300D Sportline suspension, '79 300TD w/ 617.952 engine at 367,750 and counting!

Yes, it does make for a much nicer appearance. Yet, I will not knowingly give an officer probable cause.

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