Displaying Front Plate In CA

[Kioshi]

Well dont know if you heard, but cops have access to DMV on their laptops so they could easily pull up when your dealership sent the 2 license plates in and whatnot...like DMV can. That dealership tag will only save your ass so many times till......
If you drive normal enough, I dont think they would care. I was driving side-by-side with two cop cars on my sides in my 01 Mitsubishi Mirage. For a continuous 8 miles, nothing happened.

Go to a car meet w/ no plates, then you'll get a ticket depending on the cops mood.

[Memmy07]

My friend has had a green bay packers plate on the front of his car, instead of the regular plates, for more than a year. They've never pulled him over for that. I'm sure you'll be okay. If for whatever reason they do pull you over for that, just let them know that you didn't know cuz you're from outta state.

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by Memmy07

just let them know that you didn't know cuz you're from outta state.

Kind of hard to do....especially if your living in that state and the cops can pull up your car info like DMV can..

[Garrett9000]

Originally Posted by thomasward00

I'll be staying in San Francisco with my fiance for about 6 months while I work a contract at Cisco, being a New Orleans resident my car is registered in Louisiana, which is a 1 plate state. I will be keeping my insurance and registration here in louisiana, I would never buy a car in california with all the emission controls.

By California law, if you are living in California for six months, you need to register your automobile in the State of California (therefore getting front and rear California license plates, and changing your insurance to the area that you'll be living), and obtain a California driver's licence.

[Garrett9000]

Originally Posted by yuiedie

i think having two of the plates that you were issued displayed also has something to do with the traffic cameras here, since if you had no front plate and ran a red and the camera took a pic in front of you it couldnt get your plate numbers. not sure how cali laws apply to non-residents.

That's half of the reason why Californians need both front and rear license plates. Traffic cameras also help recover stolen vehicles, as do law enforcement officials. If there are two license plates being displayed on a stolen vehicle, that (theoretically) increases the chances of identifying the stolen vehicle by 50%.
Also, law enforcement officials are in development of a held-held license plate reading gun, similar to the laser bar code readers in a store.

[Kioshi]

That gun wont do them any good if someone is driving past them because they would stil need to pull them over and see their I.D.

[YarisSedan]

My friend who lives in sacramento was visiting me in Milpitas. He got hella pissed when he got here. He got pulled over and recieved a ticket for no license plate. Even though his camero had no mounting place for a front license plate and never recieved one nor had one for years. He had to go apply for a second license plate and then we had to drill some holes into his bumper to secure it so he could get his damn fix it ticket. Most retarded thing ive ever seen.

I never have front license plates on all my cars and ive been driving for about 10 years. Plus i live in milpitas which has the most cop to population ratio of any city in california i belive.