Screws to hold front license plate cover
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#8
The reason lots of people looked but didn't comment is likely because almost all of them weren't able to give the OP a correct answer. I know I couldn't, and it appears you couldn't either (because you didn't).
I made my initial comment because I thought JiVe's comment was completely unnecessary (and BTW, it appears he couldn't either, because he also didn't).
I made my initial comment because I thought JiVe's comment was completely unnecessary (and BTW, it appears he couldn't either, because he also didn't).
Last edited by thisMSGgood4me; 12-22-2014 at 02:40 AM.
#12
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I need to know as my car did not have the cover when I got it. I bought one new and just need to find time to paint it. Here they seem to let cars like the C6 slide without a front plate but not cars like the C5 that have a place for it. When it is 20 years old it gets a collector plate and they don't come with a front. So I really just got it for then. It's over a $400 ticket here. Never been stopped in the C6 for it. But when I had my Trans Am with the cover on I was stopped and warned a few times. Anyway now I know what screws to get. Thanks OP.
#15
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Yeah the state needs money. A guy I know got one a while back. There is a loophole in the law for no practical way to install. If you did not buy the car new and claim you did not get the bracket you can sometimes get off. I have the dealer photos of the car and it had no front plate. I think that's why they don't normally stop cars without a place for it. C5s have a place.
Last edited by duramaxsky; 12-25-2014 at 04:38 PM.
#16
Yeah the state needs money. A guy I know got one a while back. There is a loophole in the law for no practical way to install. If you did not buy the car new and claim you did not get the bracket you can sometimes get off. I have the dealer photos of the car and it had no front plate. I think that's why they don't normally stop cars without a place for it. C5s have a place.
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#18
Just because you didn't get one doesn't mean they don't exist. I know for a fact they do exist. As far as traffic court goes, judges are not stupid. They know all modern cars and trucks have the means to attach plates to the front of the vehicles. If you don't have the bracket, the judge would simply tell you to get one and attach the plate to the front (if one is required by law). Don't think for a minute your excuse (of not having a bracket) would hold up to a judge who knows better.
Last edited by thisMSGgood4me; 12-25-2014 at 05:57 PM.
#19
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Just because you didn't get one doesn't mean they don't exist. I know for a fact they do exist. As far as traffic court goes, judges are not stupid. They know all modern cars and trucks have the means to attach plates to the front of the vehicles. If you don't have the bracket, the judge would simply tell you to get one and attach the plate to the front (if one is required by law). Don't think for a minute your excuse (of not having a bracket) would hold up to a judge who knows better.
#20
Thats not the point. Its a poorly written exception in the law. If you bought new you got one and will pay the ticket. If you bought used and did not get it you fall under the excetion. May not always work but a state cop told me they dont normally stop those for just that for that reason. Some laws are poorly written and that seems to be one of them.
Edit: I reviewed the license plate statute (RCW 46.16A.200) of your state, and the exception is pretty vague in my opinion. From the statute:
(4)(a) Furnished. The director shall furnish to all persons making satisfactory application for a vehicle registration:
(i) Two identical license plates each containing the license plate number; or
(ii) One license plate if the vehicle is a trailer, semitrailer, camper, moped, collector vehicle, horseless carriage, or motorcycle.
(b) The director may adopt types of license plates to be used as long as the license plates are legible.
(5)(a) Display. License plates must be:
(i) Attached conspicuously at the front and rear of each vehicle if two license plates have been issued;
(ii) Attached to the rear of the vehicle if one license plate has been issued;
(iii) Kept clean and be able to be plainly seen and read at all times; and
(iv) Attached in a horizontal position at a distance of not more than four feet from the ground.
(b) The Washington state patrol may grant exceptions to this subsection if the body construction of the vehicle makes compliance with this section impossible.
Interestingly, I found the following on a Ferrari forum on this very subject: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/nor...te-waiver.html (see post #1). The fact that GM has a front plate bracket for the C6 would seem to invalidate the ability to get such a waiver from the front plate law for C6s.
Not that any of this matters to me, as I'm not a resident of WA, but states like yours and mine (TX is a two plate state as well) don't always make it easy to violate the front plate law. Now whether they enforce it strictly is another matter, but the law is the law, and if caught, there's not much you can do to avoid it.
Last edited by thisMSGgood4me; 12-25-2014 at 07:28 PM.