At last someone going after this

[cowboyxjon]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

So many people just stack those damn things on top of each other instead of removing the old one. If you do that 3 or 4 times, it makes the new sticker really easy for thieves to remove. Just take the plate and hit it with a hair dryer on high heat for a couple minutes. The old sticker will come off with little difficulty. Then, clean the area with some rubbing alcohol, and put the new sticker directly on the plate when the alcohol dries.

Good tip! I’ll do that next year. I had a hard time getting the old sticker off on one of my vehicles and for whatever reason, didn’t even think about using a hairdryer to heat it. So I ended up putting the current sticker over the remnant of the old one I couldn’t fully remove.

Re: expired registrations, there’s one in my neighborhood from November 2021. I walk my dogs through the neighborhood and often see it parked on the street, although it does move and is not abandoned. So maybe himain and I live near each other or have seen the same vehicle around, ha ha.

[Therblig]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

So many people just stack those damn things on top of each other instead of removing the old one. If you do that 3 or 4 times, it makes the new sticker really easy for thieves to remove. Just take the plate and hit it with a hair dryer on high heat for a couple minutes. The old sticker will come off with little difficulty. Then, clean the area with some rubbing alcohol, and put the new sticker directly on the plate when the alcohol dries.

...and then make two or three irregular slices with a sharp blade, so it can't be peeled off in anything but small pieces. This, over the years, has been a more fundamental protection than all of the above 'making it stick well' tips.

But yes, stacking them six high doesn't help.

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by LHS79

Pueblo is cracking down also-

The late fee is only $100 at the DMV for late registrations so people still save money letting the registration lapse. This needs to change- make it painful for people if they do not register the vehicle on time.

People do not put a required front license plate on their cars either (can't ruin that beautiful front end on your Audi/Corvette etc...!). The only time you may get a ticket is if you park at a meter in Denver or Boulder. Ridiculous.

Extra credit: How can you tell a newcomer is in CO.? They put the stickers on the license plates upside down, backwards, or at the TOP of the plate (!)

So right on both statements!

Late renewals have been common for at least 25 years.

The failure to install both plates on a vehicle is more recent, like maybe in the last 10 years.

While fancy cars are the worst offenders of the latter, we also see plenty of CO pickup trucks without a front plate. As if it would hurt aerodynamic or aesthetic qualities.

[Therblig]

Originally Posted by pikabike

While fancy cars are the worst offenders of the latter, we also see plenty of CO pickup trucks without a front plate. As if it would hurt aerodynamic or aesthetic qualities.

Most newer pickup front ends are so butt-fugly a Colorado plate would be an aesthetic improvement. They remind me of '70s pimpmobiles, only more garish.

[cowboyxjon]

Originally Posted by pikabike

The failure to install both plates on a vehicle is more recent, like maybe in the last 10 years.

While fancy cars are the worst offenders of the latter, we also see plenty of CO pickup trucks without a front plate. As if it would hurt aerodynamic or aesthetic qualities.

You’d be amazed (or maybe not?) at the number of people who say things like “oh, my car doesn’t have a place to attach a front plate, therefore I can’t put one on” and leave it at that.

You can get brackets. The majority of states in our country require two plates and brackets to mount a front plate are available for most vehicles. I just bought a vehicle from out of state that didn’t have the bracket for a front plate and I was able to get one and install it without any issues.

[Therblig]

Originally Posted by cowboyxjon

You’d be amazed (or maybe not?) at the number of people who say things like “oh, my car doesn’t have a place to attach a front plate, therefore I can’t put one on” and leave it at that.

You can get brackets. The majority of states in our country require two plates and brackets to mount a front plate are available for most vehicles. I just bought a vehicle from out of state that didn’t have the bracket for a front plate and I was able to get one and install it without any issues.

Well, you know, flouting the front-plate law isn't exactly on a level with DUI or GTA. It has absolutely no purpose except for the convenience — not need — of law enforcement.

And the major reason for insisting on a front plate has nothing to do with vehicle ID at all.

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by Therblig

Well, you know, flouting the front-plate law isn't exactly on a level with DUI or GTA. It has absolutely no purpose except for the convenience — not need — of law enforcement.

And the major reason for insisting on a front plate has nothing to do with vehicle ID at all.

Actually, I can think of several ways in which having both front and rear plates does help people (law enforcement or not) ID vehicles of bad drivers.

Witnesses aren’t always to the rear of a moving car. And parked cars lacking front plates that are backed up to an obscuring object do not allow ID, either.

I’ve even seen cars with NEITHER plate, something I never, ever saw anywhere else in the US. It’s probably more common now, though: one result of the general disregard for laws that’s worsened in the last two decades.

[Therblig]

Originally Posted by pikabike

Actually, I can think of several ways in which having both front and rear plates does help people (law enforcement or not) ID vehicles of bad drivers.

Witnesses aren’t always to the rear of a moving car. And parked cars lacking front plates that are backed up to an obscuring object do not allow ID, either.

Yes, it would be convenient... as I said.

But if you're going to send the dogs after this one, maybe first they should do something about completely blacked out windows, which are illegal on the same level. I don't particularly care if I can identify a car from the front as much as I'd like to be able to see where the driver's attention is, at 4-way stops and other slightly dicey, shared-judgment events.

But hey, y'know, it's all 'freedom' or something.