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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: franksolich on September 25, 2009, 06:54:51 PM
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Does your state issue only one license-plate for a motor vehicle, or two?
I remember as a little lad the first time I noticed there were some automobiles with no front license-plate--this was in Pennsylvania, and I was about four years old at the time--and for whatever reason long ago buried in the psyche, it caused me great discombobulation.
I am surprised that law enforcement authorities don't get upset about states that allow only one license-plate, on the rear of the vehicle. It seems to me the more ways in which a particular motor vehicle can be identified, the better.
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Illinois issues 2, but I've seen many cars with only the back one. Most often it's a car that's undergone lots of modifications. I've also seen people with their plates stuck to the inside of their windows, both front and back or just the front one, with the rear in the normal place.
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We don't care how you Yankees do it. Here in the South we have one plate: on the rear. I guess you dumb Yankees need two because your'e so crime ridden the Police need to see you Thugs comin' and goin'.
:tongue: :lmao: :rotf: :naughty: :popcorn:
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Rear plate only here in TN.
I wish we had annual inspections like they did in TX. That's one government intrusion I liked. At least once a year, each car had to have working headlights, tail lights, wipers, turn signals, BRAKES, etc.
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Illinois issues 2, but I've seen many cars with only the back one. Most often it's a car that's undergone lots of modifications. I've also seen people with their plates stuck to the inside of their windows, both front and back or just the front one, with the rear in the normal place.
Until very recently--perhaps the past 4 or 5 years--Nebraska was pretty laid-back and lenient about license-plates. Now it's pretty much a hard-and-fast rule that both plates need to be where they're supposed to be.
If either plate--or for that matter, both plates--are inside the windshield or the rear window, one needs to have a good reason (and sometimes there are good reasons) for doing that. If there's a good reason, law enforcement lets it go, no big deal. But if there's not a good reason, some sort of minor ticket.
The bigger deal involves those 8.5x11 paper IN TRANSIT displays.
After purchasing an automobile in Nebraska, one has 30 days to license and plate it.
There always used to be dealer-issued IN TRANSIT displays, and hand-made ones, in the cases of an automobile being a private purchase, and not through a dealer.
Well, there were problems with the home-made signs. Some people, after 30 days had lapsed, just put up a new hand-made IN TRANSIT display, with a new date of expiry. Ultimately, they would get caught, but most of the time one could get away with it for several months before that happened.
So now the rule is only dealer-issued IN TRANSIT displays are allowed.
If one purchases an automobile from a non-dealer, until he gets the thing licensed and plated, he is to drive around with nothing at all (which I myself have had to do), resigned to being stopped at some time. In which case one yanks out the dated bill-of-sale, and it's all copacetic.
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OK has one.
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We don't care how you Yankees do it. Here in the South we have one plate: on the rear. I guess you dumb Yankees need two because your'e so crime ridden the Police need to see you Thugs comin' and goin'.
Ha ha ha ha... hi five. :-)
Our state used to require two but switched to a single plate about the same time a third tail light started showing up on new cars.
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Arizona requires one plate.
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Ha ha ha ha... hi five. :-)
Our state used to require two but switched to a single plate about the same time a third tail light started showing up on new cars.
:naughty:
Semper Fi!
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Kansas has 1.
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PA and Delaware both still have one.
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Texas has 2. I am cool with the registration, but these damned emission control tests stink!
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In Texas it was two but we never put them on the front of our cars because my husband didn't want to screw up the look of the front bumper (I live with crap like this because my husband is a designer). I was only pulled over once for not having it and was given a warning. I was pulled over on the Lewisville Bridge (for those of you who know where that is) of all places. Here in California you have two as well. My husband asked when he picked up the plates at AAA if you had to put them on the front of the car. They said you will get a $100 fine if you don't so he is going to put them on.
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Texas has 2. I am cool with the registration, but these damned emission control tests stink!
Don't bitch about anything in Texas. To register our car in Texas it cost $73 for my car, here in California it cost $619. You have to do the smog test every year in CA ($50) at least in Texas you don't have to have your emissions tested every year.
*maybe the two year emissions test is only every two years for new cars, I can't remember now. :thatsright:
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Rear plate only here in TN.
I wish we had annual inspections like they did in TX. That's one government intrusion I liked. At least once a year, each car had to have working headlights, tail lights, wipers, turn signals, BRAKES, etc.
same state as Lug and Chris....
I agree.....I wish there were annual inspections, but some of the "hill" counties around here....you'd never get people to do it...
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Texas has 2. I am cool with the registration, but these damned emission control tests stink!
I think Texas gives you 2 but its only required on the back.
or something like that.
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Missouri it's two.
About every year or so I actually wash most of the dead bugs off the front plate so it can be read.
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One in Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi. I think Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama also only require one. I should know given how many times I go there.
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both my current cars have 2, one registered in IL and the other in AK
AK registration BTW is awesome. new plates included in price of the car, plates are cheap if you are registering a car brought in, and registration is good for 2 years with like a $100 fee. They even let me renew my registration in 07 for one that expired in 06... on a vehicle that was at the time in UT
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Two plates required here in Ohio.
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Rear plate only here in TN.
I wish we had annual inspections like they did in TX. That's one government intrusion I liked. At least once a year, each car had to have working headlights, tail lights, wipers, turn signals, BRAKES, etc.
The annual inspections here in Texas have become a joke. They are little more than another way for the state to fraudulently acquire more money and many places will pass a vehicle that has serious issues. If I were to mandate a vehicle inspection, it would be like the ones in Virginia. Those were thorough. All in all, I liked the fact that MN didn't require an annual inspection and let the police handle the vehicle equipment infractions.
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The more heavily populated counties in TN have emissions tests once a year for $10; some others do not. NC has an annual inspection for $25 that covers emissions, brakes, lights, tires, and glass.
I think the MOT test in the UK is about £50 and they're a lot more thorough... they can fail you if they find a rust hole in the undercarriage.
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On new purchases, Illinois started giving out temp. cardboard type plates in lieu of the "applied for" window stickers that were easily hacked.
The cardboard plates did not hold up well in the car wash!
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On new purchases, Illinois started giving out temp. cardboard type plates in lieu of the "applied for" window stickers that were easily hacked.
The cardboard plates did not hold up well in the car wash!
lol
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NYS is two. Matter of fact, the ****ing idiot that currently occupies the Governor's mansion decided that every driver in NYS needed to get new plates, to the tune of $25 a set. Something about NYS being waaaay in debt.
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NH requires 2. Hey, if I have to pay $430 to register my car, plus another $45 for safety inspection, they ******* well better give me two plates!
Oh, and the inspection process here doesn't include smog, but they will fail you for little shit like body rust or brakes, etc.
And before ya'll tell me how expensive that is to register my car, let me state for the record once again--NO STATE SALES TAX. Buy a $25-30K vehicle and how much in sales tax are you paying for that car? I rest my case.
Poor BEG--buy a car there, and not only are you paying the 9 percent-plus sales tax, but the Godawful registration fees, smog, and gas that runs around $3/gallon for regular (ex is bitching about paying $3.25/gal for premium) while I'm paying (in some spots) under $2.40 for regular.
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NH requires 2. Hey, if I have to pay $430 to register my car, plus another $45 for safety inspection, they ******* well better give me two plates!
Oh, and the inspection process here doesn't include smog, but they will fail you for little shit like body rust or brakes, etc.
And before ya'll tell me how expensive that is to register my car, let me state for the record once again--NO STATE SALES TAX. Buy a $25-30K vehicle and how much in sales tax are you paying for that car? I rest my case.
Poor BEG--buy a car there, and not only are you paying the 9 percent-plus sales tax, but the Godawful registration fees, smog, and gas that runs around $3/gallon for regular (ex is bitching about paying $3.25/gal for premium) while I'm paying (in some spots) under $2.40 for regular.
It's high in Nevada, over 1% of the MSRP when it was new. People that buy RV's find themselves paying 2 or 3 grand yearly (or more) and no one ever pays MSRP on an RV...it's usually thousands less...
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Two plates here in Colorado.
Most states that do the two plate thing are doing so because it guarantees a great radar return off the vehicle no matter what it's made of. (flat metallic surface perpendicular to the "horizontal plane" of the roadbed).
Just sayin'...
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NH requires 2. Hey, if I have to pay $430 to register my car, plus another $45 for safety inspection, they ******* well better give me two plates!
Oh, and the inspection process here doesn't include smog, but they will fail you for little shit like body rust or brakes, etc.
And before ya'll tell me how expensive that is to register my car, let me state for the record once again--NO STATE SALES TAX. Buy a $25-30K vehicle and how much in sales tax are you paying for that car? I rest my case.
Poor BEG--buy a car there, and not only are you paying the 9 percent-plus sales tax, but the Godawful registration fees, smog, and gas that runs around $3/gallon for regular (ex is bitching about paying $3.25/gal for premium) while I'm paying (in some spots) under $2.40 for regular.
My tags are around $40....and we don't have state sales tax either.... :tongue:
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My tags are around $40....and we don't have state sales tax either.... :tongue:
You don't have sales tax in TN? I beg to differ.
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You don't have sales tax in TN? I beg to differ.
just call me stupid!!! :banghead:
we don't have state INCOME tax...
our sales tax is almost 10%...but it varies from county to county, and where I am, if I buy within the city limits, it's higher....though the city has annexed most commercial areas.
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MT has two and no sales tax. I also spend time and have cars in MI and there is only one plate there.