Aftermarket Front Bumpers-What did you do with your license plate??

[FishFreak]

Question for those of you in states where you MUST run a front license plate: where did you put it, besides on the dashboard ?? I'm shopping for a front bumper, but here on the left coast the chp will pull you over for no front plate.

I've seen people with them on the dash, but if that's a legit angle, then why can't we just bolt it to the flat of the skid plate, like below the 'SVC' cutout in their pic below? I'd really like to use a little motorcycle front license plate there, have one made with my numbers, if that's legit in CA? Any CHP or police in this thread area, please chime in....?

 

[kirkb]

I am in CA as well, and have not run a front plate on any vehicle for 30 years now. Never got a ticket for it (yet). Definitely not putting one on my SVC bumper.

Personally I would not run a small motorcycle plate or any non standard plate, I think that is much more of an issue and likely to get you pulled over than no plate at all. They are cracking down on the recent fad of "wrapped" license plates to change the colors or make them look carbon.

On the bumper in your picture, you could easily make something to mount a plate to that angled cross member off to either side which would be legal and keep it mostly out of harms way.

 

[TomDirt]

I am in CA as well, and have not run a front plate on any vehicle for 30 years now.

This^^^

Note: I keep the front plate lying on the floor, as I have to show it every time I drive on the scale at the local transfer station (aka "the dump").

 

[Nex]

In the trash.

 

[Cody Templeton]

I run mine in the bottom of the toolbox drawer, where it belongs.