[DanDubyah]

My new '15 BRZ is not yet 3 weeks old as I post this. Fortunately, the dealer did not drill holes on the front of my car and simply tossed the bracket in the trunk. I live in the SW corner of Ohio, so there's a lot of IN & KY cars around, so I am hoping (as I've heard around town) that the police aren't too vigilant about enforcing this ridiculous OH law. So for now (at least while the car is so new), I simply have the front plate on the backseat floor and, if challenged, plan to tell any inquiring officer that the car's new, the dealer did not install the bracket and I hadn't gotten around to it yet. Hopefully that'll fly.


BUT I also picked up a Grimmspeed mount that my salesman got cheap from another customer that no longer needed it. I will NEVER drill holes in that bumper!


So as you can see, I'm covering all my bases in hopes that the law gets changed soon. I keep hearing it will, but that's been for years now. But for now, I'll keep dancing that line of irresponsibility / 'breaking the law' and live with the ticket risk. I actually got pulled over a week after having the car by a police officer that was coming towards me and did a U-turn to get me (supposedly 52 in a 35...I was trying to get used to shifting after 30 years of owning an automatic and was, for better or worse, more preoccupied with the tach than I was the speedometer). Chatted with the officer for 10 minutes about the car itself before getting a speed warning rather than a ticket...I honestly think they were more interested in seeing the gleaming Series.Blue up close more than upholding the letter of the law! Not having a front plate on didn't even come up...


Oh yeah...I stumbled upon an awesome thread in another area of the 'big' forum about mounting the front license plate & bracket with rare earth magnets! I wish I'd seen that before I bought the Grimmspeed mount...consider checking that out!