jaimesy

Got away with no front plate for 8 months. Now $100 less in my pocket.

Car never came with front plates, will have to buy a replacement, but I'd hate to drill holes in the front bumper...does anyone have any suggestions for an '84 928? I heard they sell a mounting kit for the tow-hole. This would mean the plate would be off-center...is this legal in CA?

Can anyone suggest where I can get this mounting kit? Tried searching the threads and google, and cant find for an '84.

Thanks!

Tony

Buy some aluminum stock and make a bracket that sticks out from the cooling flap intake area in the front fender. DONT drill holes in your bumper to "please" the state of CA

Bill Ball

$100!? I thought the Berkeley parking cops were bad! I've had no front plate for the last 20 years. Last week I parked for an hour in Berkeley. Came back to the car with a ticket on the windshield while I still had tioe on the meter. $25 ticket for no front plate.

Regardless, we will still hold Sharks in the Park in Berkeley. Hope you can make it.

jorj7

They installed new photo ticket cameras in Berkeley, so they must be trying to
increase the yield rate by issuing tickets for no front plates... I guess I'll have to
dig mine up, since I removed it at the last race.

RyanPerrella

$100 is stupid, I got one of those before for another car it was $25 ad Bill said, i would be real pissed paying $100.

ACG

I guess this is how it would look based on PorKen's set-up:

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-forum/300309-944-clubsport-mirror.html

Dave H.

F 'em. pay their blood money and move on.

close to 20 years with no front plates. 2 tickets in that time. still no front plates...

dr bob

Got a Cali ticket for no front plate, and ended up making a no-holes mounting bracket for the front bumper. I have a brand-new factory bracket, but I couldn't see through the tears well enough to get holes drilled in the shell... So I didn't. The one I made fits into the support for the upper deflector. I have a few pix of it installed (see the avatar shot for instance) showing how it hugs the front of the car without touching the shell.

I won't be able to get pics of it for week or so, but will put together a little how-to. Materials are 12" long strips of aluminum from the local metals supply store, held together with pop-rivets. I used my Nut-Sert tool to put threaded inserts into a couple little pieces to make clamps that hold it into the car by clamping the edge of the shell right at the top of the grill slats.

Note that this is for S4+ cars; I'm not sure what the contour is like in the earlier shell.


Cali added a new "law" that prohibits adding anything to the front plate that might make it harder for the camera too read it. Pooh. I have a recipe somewhere for an epsom salts solution handy for frosting windows for winter holiday decoration. We have to do that here since it seldom gets even close to freezing. Dissolve the epsom salts in warm beer it says. Rub on with a sponge, adding layers until the desired effect is achieved. Just looks a little dirty white, while the salt crystals make the plate look white in a flash photo. Try it with a layer of plastic film like Saran Wrap before you sacrifice an unprotected plate. My memory is that it's a real chore to get off, although extended dip in hot water should do the trick.


There was no fix-it option on my ticket, it was just a 'pay us' demand.

IcemanG17

Was it a parking ticket or a moving violation where a cop gave you the ticket?

Typically no front plate tickets are a "fix it" ticket where you get a cop to sign it off (I know one) pay a small fine (typically $10) and thats it.....

Bill Ball

Berkeley is $25; $15 if you fix it.

KraigG

Put the plate on somehow with zip ties, go get it signed off as a fix-it ticket ($10), then remove the zip ties, and you're all set.

If you're going to PAY the $100 fine, you don't have to get it fixed.

Fly Navy

Jaimsey,

Got one too here in Virginia.

I had just moved up from Florida (we only have the rear plates there) and just had my car inspected at a VSP certified station. "Do I need to put that front plate on?" I asked. "No, you're all done - here's your inspection sticker" I was told. 4-months later, and just three blocks from home I was pulled over by a State Trooper.

I gave the explanation above but was told by the trooper, "You guys in these sports cars are always trying to get away something. Legally, I can have the car impounded right here."

Ticket cost $97. Must have been a slow day for filling his quota that morning.

Jim M.

Velcroed it on. Minimum wage civil servant looks at it, signs off on the paperwork, go home, rip the ^%#$@% plate off, pull the Velcro off the bumper cover, clean off adhesive, and all is right with the world again.

Marine Blue

Can they seriously impound a car for no front plates? What a rediculous comment.

Jerome Craig

I got stopped a couple of months ago by a county officer after two years with no front tag displayed. I kept the front tag locked in the glove box. I was on my way to work so I suppose my county court badge and my police department lanyard was responsible for the encounter being nothing more than a friendly conversation.

The rationale I was given is that there has been a rise in the number of stolen vehicles that are using a front tag stolen from another vehicle to elude discovery. Officer friendly told me its called "tag splitting".

What is interesting is that for the past year and a half my car has been parked with, near or between police cars and state patrol cars and I'd never had a problem with no front tag.