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I wonder how much poo poo you'd get in for making your own license plate, assuming it had your real plate number and adhered to all the general specifications (size, contrast, etc). I understand that this is how license plates started -- you were supposed to paint the numbers right on your car or make a little wooden plaque -- and some European countries still don't specify the specific arrangement of the digits, just the height of the letters, so you can technically get some stick-on house numbers and put them on your window
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I believe in most of the US you can't paint or restore plates, they want you to get new ones. Probably one of those things that never gets enforced because no one gives a poo poo until the cop is looking for an excuse.
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Nov 14, 2016 05:26
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Johnny Aztec posted:It's amazing those aren't swiped 5 seconds after you park it somewhere. Yeah, had it happen twice. I RTV the bolts now.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:And of every car I see driving with high beams on, about 3/4 of them are 8th and 9th gen Civics for some reason. From a ways back, but yeah, WTF?! I have had a similar observation and it's definitely separate lights. Do these cars just have crappy controls or an obscured indicator lamp? A self-selected set of drivers?
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xzzy posted:I believe in most of the US you can't paint or restore plates, they want you to get new ones. Probably one of those things that never gets enforced because no one gives a poo poo until the cop is looking for an excuse. Cops will do everything they can to be dicks about plates. I got pulled over in South Dakota for having no front place once. The cop had the ticket written when he got to my window and when I protested that Indiana didn't require front plates he put his hand on his weapon and unbuttoned it. I about poo poo my pants. He ended up tearing it up and walking away without another word.
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xzzy posted:I believe in most of the US you can't paint or restore plates, they want you to get new ones. Probably one of those things that never gets enforced because no one gives a poo poo until the cop is looking for an excuse. In my province you can send your worn plate away and receive a new plate with the same number. It's pretty limited, however, in that classic plates obviously cannot be reproduced and only about a two-year span of regular plates appears to be really bad for corrosion.
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Nov 14, 2016 06:13
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Yeah, had it happen twice. I RTV the bolts now. Man, if you ever get your hands on one of them extra, I'd buy it from you.
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah there's a guy down the street from me with a WRX and black license plate SKYNET1. It pisses me off. I started this derail by stating I miss that style :P PCOS Bill posted:PA's plates are generally pretty boring, mostly just "organization logo on standard plate" outside of stuff like the conservation plates. http://www.dmv.pa.gov/VEHICLE-SERVICES/Registration%20Plates/Pages/Approved-Organizations.aspx When I was a kid I liked the plates that said "You've got a friend in Pennsylvania" but it turns out that was actually a Quaker thing.
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InitialDave posted:I'd have that with "RENTON" on it. For the uninitiated amongst us, this is the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxgqHqakXc Also you should watch it if you haven't seen it, it's loving superb. I'm not suggesting you'll be able to fully understand it or the accents though 
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xzzy posted:I believe in most of the US you can't paint or restore plates, they want you to get new ones. Probably one of those things that never gets enforced because no one gives a poo poo until the cop is looking for an excuse. I pulled a legit '74 Ohio plate from my grandpa's garage & registered custom Ohio antique plates using the same numbers, took the registration sticker and put it in the correct spot. It looked great on my '74 VW until I blew the engine up. I kept waiting to be pulled over for 'fictitious plates', though being on a classic car probably helped that along.
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Nov 14, 2016 16:44
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Ohio allows you to register antique cars using year-appropriate vintage plates.
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I thought a lot of states did? If not, they should.Johnny Aztec posted:Man, if you ever get your hands on one of them extra, I'd buy it from you. PM sent
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Seat Safety Switch posted:In my province you can send your worn plate away and receive a new plate with the same number. In CA if your plate gets lost or mangled enough than that's it, even for vanity plates. So if you get rear ended and your plate gets ripped in half you lose those plates forever. You sometimes see some real old vanity plates that are thrashed on newer cars because you can't get them replaced.
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To continue plate chat, I miss the old WI plates. Black letters on reflective yellow. The most boring utilitarian plates ever.
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Funzo posted:To continue plate chat, I miss the old WI plates. Black letters on reflective yellow. The most boring utilitarian plates ever. Old MA plates were awesome like that too. White plate, reflective green letters.  They're still good too if the registration has been kept in good standing since you were issued the plate too, so you see them very occasionally still.
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So, if you have a plate, can you just keep it forever, or what? Or do they want you to get new ones every year? Officially, the rules are very firm on size, format, font, spacing etc for UK plates, though you can get away with quite a bit of deviation - though taking the piss just gives the police an excuse to pay more attention, so I've never understood why people do it myself. Olympic Mathlete posted:Also you should watch it if you haven't seen it, it's loving superb. I'm not suggesting you'll be able to fully understand it or the accents though
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InitialDave posted:So, if you have a plate, can you just keep it forever, or what? Or do they want you to get new ones every year? Everywhere I've lived, you use the same plate until it becomes too damaged to read or you buy a new car. You certainly can transfer plates to your new car but it's pretty normal for dealers these days to give you new ones because it's less paperwork. quote:There's an episode of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. where they subtitle two guys' British accents. I was pissing myself. I have big trouble with certain accents, I can only understand them when it's getting piped directly into my ears with headphones. Something about listening to thick irish or scottish accents in the living room guarantees I can't understand what they're saying even though they're using a perfectly normal english vocabulary. The "americanized" english accents we usually get on public TV here are no issue. Trainspotting definitely had to be viewed with headphones. Peaky Blinders is a recent entry to that list. I had some issues with River as well.
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InitialDave posted:So, if you have a plate, can you just keep it forever, or what? Or do they want you to get new ones every year? License plates are issued on a state by state basis so there's a patchwork of laws governing how long plates are valid for. In my state a license plate remains valid as long as you keep it renewed without significant lapses - IIRC less than six months. After that they require you to get a new set of plates, which only cost $11.50.
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FCKGW posted:In CA if your plate gets lost or mangled enough than that's it, even for vanity plates. So if you get rear ended and your plate gets ripped in half you lose those plates forever. This is absolutely bonkers to me. In SC, the plate is issued to whomever is on the registration, and if you destroy it they'll issue another one, whether vanity or regular. OTOH, non-vanity tags expire every so many years, usually when they come up with a new awful plate design, and they'll mail you a new one.
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xzzy posted:I have big trouble with certain accents, I can only understand them when it's getting piped directly into my ears with headphones. Something about listening to thick irish or scottish accents in the living room guarantees I can't understand what they're saying even though they're using a perfectly normal english vocabulary. The "americanized" english accents we usually get on public TV here are no issue.
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 Georgia's recent license plate design is terrible car stuff.
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I assumed that was made up gibberish, but apparently my wife can understand him perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a55iAwMXylo
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Nevada actually has the best plates. I have some.
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No poo poo, I really like the Idaho "nuclear winter" standard license plate. Red, white, blue, extremely recognizable from a distance, and hasn't changed in like 40 years. Also, at one point, the world's plutonium came from the Idaho National Laboratory, so I think it's a fitting plate for that. Nuclear power plates are always the best.
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Montana has a pretty good system, they come out with a new plate every 5-10 years but you can still order the older ones if you want. So my plates are from 91-00 because I liked them the best, plus they are from the same time as my car. Also if you want to track down older plates for an older car you can do that too. Or get new antique plates. https://dojmt.gov/driving/license-plates https://dojmt.gov/driving/plate-designs-and-fees/antique/ And then there are a whole shitload for sponsoring clubs and schools or whatever.
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Man, we get pretty much nothing for novelty plates in Canada as far as I am aware. In Alberta all we have that isn't the standard red-on-white is a "Support the Troops" plate but if that doesn't float your boat tough.
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Famous potatoes. Jesus Christ.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:No poo poo, I really like the Idaho "nuclear winter" standard license plate. Red, white, blue, extremely recognizable from a distance, and hasn't changed in like 40 years. You mean 20 years? Because they ran green and white plates well into the 90's. I still remember the silly green mountains they had in the corner when the family did road trips in the summer and I'd see them on the road. Granted, they've been pretty stable since then. Every other state feels obligated to redesign things constantly.
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poo poo, you're right. I do remember the green mountain plates. I just like that they're consistent. Even the custom plates have (usually) a red stripe at the top, and they try to trend blue at the bottom, to make it very similar and recognizable.
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah there's a guy down the street from me with a WRX and black license plate SKYNET1. It pisses me off. *LA Law saxophone intro starts playing*
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slidebite posted:Man, we get pretty much nothing for novelty plates in Canada as far as I am aware. In Alberta all we have that isn't the standard red-on-white is a "Support the Troops" plate but if that doesn't float your boat tough. Ontario has a ton of different graphic plates, but they just put a logo on the side, not a full background. https://www.ontario.ca/page/choose-licence-plate-graphic
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Rhyno posted:Famous potatoes. Better than "Wander" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1LNtoML3jc (ironically this clip looks like it was filmed on a potato)
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beep-beep car is go posted:Old MA plates were awesome like that too. White plate, reflective green letters. They started checking green plates at inspections. My friend's mom put up a big stink about keeping her green plate when she bought a new car at some point and managed to keep it for a couple more cars after that. However, the plate lost its reflective quality from so many years exposed to the elements and it failed inspection and she had to get the new red on white plates. So I guess if you know somebody holding on to their green plates like their life depends on it tell them to garage their car and help keep them as nice as they can. The red on white are not bad at all compared to some of the poo poo in this thread though. Some of these plates look like loving tie dye t-shirts.
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I'm relatively pleased with Ohio's current offering: From about 5' away all of the stupid "Ohio buzzwords" in the background fade and it just looks like an off-white background with block blue lettering. Far superior compared to the most recent previous plate:   And the two that proceeded it:  
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Nunavut has the best plates of them all.
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I'm from DC so I see lots of diplomat plates and when Ohio went to those plates I imagine there was some confusion.  Current diplomat plates are much more distinct.
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:Haha you weren't kidding. Texas has a shitload of plate backgrounds. We got all that poo poo because they http://www.myplates.com/Auction That said, I really like the white on black Texas Star plates. They'd look good on my all-black Cutlass.  Oh, hey, these are new!:  There's a lot of other pretty good designs, so I guess it's not horrible. http://www.myplates.com/ e: MrYenko posted:Texas Plate Counterpoint: I think this is one of the nicest plates out there right now. The silver version is good too. Dammit. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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