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Darren, I went one better. I drilled out the old rivets and using a tap drill drilled new holes into the Aluminum body of the front bumper. I taped (tapped?) the holes. I used nylon screws. Can remove the mount and plates easily!
TTFN Elio
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04-27-2008, 12:55 PM
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Temporary Front License Plate - How Should I Secure? / Dealer Plate
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where can i borrow a dealer plate holder?
not sure i can just walk into a dealer here in manhattan and ask for one.
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 Geez, it sounds like we're talking about the narcotics industry.
But that would be my best guess as to how to obtain one or ask around how they get theirs or who their supplier is.
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04-27-2008, 03:36 PM
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I used nylon screws
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@ Cherly: drugs are EASY, (pick a corner or ask 1 in 5 or 6 of your freinds), it's the people and rules on the 'good' side of the law that's the PITA.
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04-27-2008, 03:47 PM
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Temporary Front License Plate - How Should I Secure? / Drugs
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I'd not go far on them as the vibration may just shake them to pieces. But on the flip side, at least it's tapped for any kind of screw material you want in the future. (heck, you could put in studs and be really cool )
@ Cherly: drugs are EASY, (pick a corner or ask 1 in 5 or 6 of your freinds), it's the people and rules on the 'good' side of the law that's the PITA. |
I either have the right or wrong kind of friends, depending on interpretation, or I don't know about their illicit habits. I'm not one to occupy street corners or ask questions there. I tend to buy my drugs at the local pharmacy with that little piece of paper signed by the doctor that you now have to provide your drivers license in order to obtain what the doctor ordered; that is a true PITA; but legal, even at my small neighborhood pharmacy that I've used for years.
I am not the one you would want to send to scout out the sources....I'm afraid we'd all be worse off than when we started.
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04-27-2008, 04:00 PM
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I never considered folks I know who use stuff to be 'right' or 'wrong' unless the actions they take to obtain or maintain are illegal/illicit/immoral. (someone wants to use dope, no skin off my back. Steal from my house to get $ to buy said dope, then there's going to be a large problem)
In fact it's not even on the 'my freinds must/must not' list nor part of the qualifications to become a freind. :shrug:
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04-27-2008, 04:22 PM
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Temporary Front License Plate - How Should I Secure? / Drugs
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I never considered folks I know who use stuff to be 'right' or 'wrong' unless the actions they take to obtain or maintain are illegal/illicit/immoral. (someone wants to use dope, no skin off my back. Steal from my house to get $ to buy said dope, then there's going to be a large problem)
In fact it's not even on the 'my freinds must/must not' list nor part of the qualifications to become a freind. :shrug:
Mine come to the door with a person standing there who's got a piece of paper to sign saying I did indeed get it, but then they tell me I shouldn't drive when I'm actually on them so I can see the mentality behind it |
Some how this ties right into the mentality of the law that we must all have front license plates...so they can effectively ticket us by camera. I believe that is the only reason because we are not required to tag the front plate any longer; that ended years ago in my state.
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04-27-2008, 10:55 PM
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so they can effectively ticket us by camera
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I agree. While some cops actually do look at front plates as an actual means of identifying a vehicle (they memorize what code numbers and/or letter represent what year the registration was issued) most completely ignore it, and not once have I ever had or seen a ticket issued with the ocifer using the front plate as a reference while writing. (must be afraid to get run'ded over or sumpthin')
What makes it stupid around here is the military base with cars from all over the country.
They'll stop a NY registered car with no front plate while 20 cars from out of state drive right on by with thier single rear plate. (likely because the tickets issued to out of state owners have a really high probability of never being paid while the residents can be messed with for the rest of thier life if they don't pay)
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04-27-2008, 11:30 PM
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They'll stop a NY registered car with no front plate while 20 cars from out of state drive right on by with thier single rear plate. (likely because the tickets issued to out of state owners have a really high probability of never being paid while the residents can be messed with for the rest of thier life if they don't pay)
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04-28-2008, 12:14 AM
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Temporary Front License Plate - How Should I Secure? / Police
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Thus taking the burden off the live cops so they have even less to do than the nothing that they accomplish now. (that's not a jab at cops all over, just in my tiny slice of the world BTW)
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They tax our utilities and everything else, so I'm sure if they could figure out how to tax our front plates locally, other than writing tickets they would.
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No I'm not kidding... Make a great temporary way to mount a plate that's easily removed after sign off.
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04-28-2008, 12:40 AM
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I'm sure if they could figure out how to tax our front plates
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Simple ploy really and just a tickbox option away on your tax or water bill.
Pay X to get the sticker, or, don't and pay for tickets and tow trucks.
We actually have a small town that does this, and if you don't have a 'resident' sticker thier version of johnny law will give you all sorts of grief because you 'aren't one of them', even if you're visiting relatives.
They also own about 500 parking meters which only get put up everydamnwhere including places you'd never park anyway, in late April or early May and are removed by October so they can milk the summer crowds for every penny they can.
It all works in nicely with the section of STATE route that runs past the town that the TOWN changes the speed limit on during that same 'meter season'. You go Thursday and it's 55 all the way, yet when you go back Monday, you get a ticket for doing 55 in a 45. (no, they don't have any warning about the speed change, it just sorta happens magically overnight)
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Zip ties I can understand, but duct tape is a little on the extremely primitive side in'nit?
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04-28-2008, 12:42 AM
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