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I love threads like this because all the people who have never been pulled over will chime in with how special they are and how police don't care. And then someday it will happen to them and they'll shut up about it forever. I've had a State Patrolman pull a U-turn, tail me for 8 miles, and then pull me over and give me a fix-it ticket for no front plate on my Evo. I explained to him that it normally is tied into my front grill but blocks my intercooler and since I was on my way to the SCCA National tour I had removed it. Whether that got it down to a fix-it from a regular ticket or not, I don't know, but that's not the point. If an officer wants an excuse to pull you over and check for other possible offenses you're giving it to them for free. If nothing outside of your car is wrong and you're driving legally then they don't have any cause and you won't ever get pulled over.
Front plate or accept the risk. That's how it is and how it always will be until someone actually pushes a proposal/bill through to change it. My advice to anyone that wants to run without one... Make sure you aren't doing anything else wrong. Don't smell of weed or alcohol, don't have your seat-belt unbuckled, don't have a tail light out, etc. If you're going to get pulled over for a front plate they're going to look for everything else possible, too.
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