02-07-2020, 01:52 PM | #23 |
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Cops don't care. Parking enforcement will give you a ticket. Born and raised in LA. Had everything from honda civics to s2000s to 370z to M2. They look for the front plate when you're parked on the street.
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02-07-2020, 04:22 PM | #24 |
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02-07-2020, 04:54 PM | #25 |
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02-07-2020, 06:43 PM | #26 |
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I've driven in NorCal for 10 years without a front plate and never had an issue. I've had 2 speeding tickets and 2 parking tickets and no one cared. A few months back I went to the CHP office, pulled up in plain view of the front desk and they still didn't even mention it.
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09-29-2020, 03:44 PM | #27 | |
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I went to the LAPD station in Marina del Rey a few weeks later, the guy at the front desk didn't even look up from the desk, let alone go outside to look at my car, to sign the fix it ticket. I had bought a tow hook mounted front plate holder, from then on I just kept it in my trunk and planned to say it had gotten loose and I was worried it would fall off if I got stopped again. I've been pulled over since then, but no officer has ever even asked about the front plate. I haven't run the front plate on my M2, and I don't plan to. |
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09-29-2020, 05:23 PM | #28 |
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In SoCal, only in LA or SD maybe do they care about front plates when parked.
Never gotten pulled over while driving
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09-29-2020, 06:27 PM | #29 |
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In 20 years of driving w/o front plates, I've gotten 3 fix-it tickets in San Francisco, all while I was on a doctor's appt. I don't live in SF and I always take care of the ticket near my neighborhood police station and they always sign the ticket without ever checking if I install the front plate.
If you visit SF, make sure to feed that meter. SF has the the most expensive parking tickets in the entire United States. At $74 a pop, the city's standard parking tickets are the most expensive in the country. In addition to the standard parking meter ticket, there are 111 different parking citations doled out in the city, ranging from $46 for "blocking a residential door" to $880 for "blocking access to a blue zone." The City's meters maids are very vigilant in writing citations that the SF parking meters and violations have become a $130m industry - it's a cash cow for the City. |
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Can't tell you how many times that was said to me verbatim when visiting LA. |
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10-03-2020, 07:58 AM | #34 |
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Run plate-less and keep this in your trunk
$5 No-Drill Front License Plate Mount M2C https://f87.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1738663 |
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10-06-2020, 02:50 PM | #36 | |
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I ended up getting a tow hook plate mount and a more mature exhaust for the S2000 and I have a Carbonio for the M2C that I will put on after I get my first ticket. |
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10-09-2020, 03:38 PM | #39 |
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I got pulled over a few years ago in Glendale just for the front plate. Right on Brand, cruising at speed limit. Cop on motorcycle literally did a U-turn just to give me that ticket.
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10-10-2020, 09:48 PM | #40 |
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get Big Mike's Sto N Sho so you can just slide a centerd plate on and off as needed whenever you want. Bay area here and no ticket yet, but I avoid city parking as much as possible.
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