Same.On my 911 and Cayman I use the front tow hook to attach the plate. There are other products out there that dont damage the front bumper. I find it is easier to follow the rules life usually goes alot easier.View attachment 150991
Same.On my 911 and Cayman I use the front tow hook to attach the plate. There are other products out there that dont damage the front bumper. I find it is easier to follow the rules life usually goes alot easier.View attachment 150991
You still get "property tax relief" - everyone does unless you use your vehicle for business. Been around for as long as I can remember. For my Golf, I deduct miles for my business on that car so if I have more than 50% of the miles for business, I can't get the relief and it adds several '00 to my PPT bill...of course I deduct the PPT as well ahhahaI’m no longer active duty, so I don’t get tax relief on vehicles. It was nice when I did, but I was driving the 1990 4 Runner back then - saving $20 a year wasn’t a huge relief…
Yeah, they know the Tundra used market, and tax accordingly. I was wrong in the above post. It was $1,500 for all of them last year. The Tundra was $1,500 when new. $691 last year.
Still a decent bit of change for property tax above and beyond vehicle registration fees.
Interestingly, it’s about $36 for the V70R, which is registered in Virginia, but currently sitting in Colorado. Clearly, they don’t know the market on that particular model. If it was a lot more, I would register it in Colorado.
The SL600 was about $120. That, and the front plate, was incentive enough to change the registration.
That's because Illinois' enforcement is notoriously spotty. Drive through a tony suburb such as Hinsdale and you'll see all kinds of high-end European SUVs and sports cars and almost none of them will have a front plate. But if I took off the front plate on my rusty Impala and drove through there I'd be pulled over in mere seconds.I live in a state where they are required. I've owned twelve vehicles and none of them have had a front plate. Never had an issue with LEO's.
You still get "property tax relief" - everyone does unless you use your vehicle for business. Been around for as long as I can remember.
There's a lot on IL also; I read once that we have the most of any state. I don't know if that is per capita or what, or even if that is still true any more. But they cost a lot more than that here! The state knows a money-maker when it sees one.There are lots of people in Virginia that think they're a special snowflake and want to make sure everyone else knows it.
They cost $10 a year in addition to the regular plate cost.
I've never gotten one, I never will.
I remember when I lived with my folks in VB having the "city stickers" every year to show you paid your PPT.It wasn't around prior to Governor Gilmore. The plan was to phase in property tax relief over a numbers of years and eventually completely eliminate it. Unfortunately, the dot bomb crash of the early 2000s and the resulting economic fallout prevented the complete phaseout of the personal property tax.
I have three Naval Aviator plates.There are lots of people in Virginia that think they're a special snowflake and want to make sure everyone else knows it.
They cost $10 a year in addition to the regular plate cost.
I've never gotten one, I never will.
Probably because it for some reason (according to them) should be illegal to have to provide proof of anything to the DMV. Same people that complain they have to get inspections and aren't allowed to drive their piece of junk with bits falling off of it from rust and brakes that don't work on the road because "it's a free country"I have three Naval Aviator plates.
I earned the right to have one, and had to provide documentation to get them.
Not sure that makes me a “snowflake”, though.
I have three Naval Aviator plates.
I earned the right to have one, and had to provide documentation to get them.
Not sure that makes me a “snowflake”, though.
Same with my dad. Naval Aviator plates that are pesonalized. He's definatley a snow flakeI have three Naval Aviator plates.
I earned the right to have one, and had to provide documentation to get them.
Not sure that makes me a “snowflake”, though.
Some cars come with holes already molded-into the plastic bumper; chamfered nice and neat. Trouble is, they're wider than the US-style plates, so most people drill new holes (and there might even be dimples there to show where to drill).I really bemoan the trend in vehicles to have the front plate attachment point made by drilling holes right through the plastic bumper cover. When I was shopping for my Nissan 370Z back in 2009 I saw several on the lot that the moron who attached the bracket for the dealer plate either used sheet metal screws that were too long or pushed too hard when installing it and cause the screw tips to gouge the body of the car behind the plate. I told the salesman that I would refuse any car that has a plate attached.
The good news is that you can buy inexpensive plastic plugs to cover the holes if they have been drilled. And hopefully there was no damage to the body. There is a company named Sto-N-Sho that makes front plate brackets that are quick detachable and don't require drilling into the front bumper or as Raaizin did with his Porsches, use the tow hook mounting point.
A lack of a front license plate is a secondary offense in Utah. For example-if you are stopped for speeding you can then be citied for a lack of a front license plate. For vehicles without a place for front plates-I agree with you (about drilling). However-there are a lot of trucks, SUV's, etc, that have that square plastic mounting area on the front that looks worse-IMHO without a license plate then with one.I haven't had a front plate on any of my cars for almost 30 years, the last 15 of that being in Utah, which requires a front plate. I have never been harassed by an officer about it, and I have been pulled over a couple times, with no front plate in place.
Having grown up in Utah, and all the Western states require front plates, I didn't even know that some states only require a rear plate, until traveling on business to KSC. Then, about 28 years ago I moved to SC, and they only gave me one plate. Kentucky was the same way. I quickly learned that, at least in the Southeast, only one plate is pretty common.
When I came home to Utah 15 years ago, I wasn't anxious to drill ugly holes in the front bumper of my cars, to mount a plate. So I haven't. I suspect, with more and more regulation, it won't be long before front plates are enforced. But until then, count me as one who thinks they distract from a nice looking car.
THIS. This is what all f. plate states should allow.In the big cities... it makes the meter maid's life easier. No need to walk to the back of the car to document the license plate info.
In CA, there is one alternative that is approved,
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