does anyone know if they let people drive with one license plate in houston, tx? Im thinking about just put 1 license plate on the back of my car.

 

No, they require them.

 

you can take it off the front, and put it in the front window. keeps your car looking clean and legal. at least in dallas they allow that

 

^ Imagine going from 40-70 mph to 0 instantly with that plate sitting on the dash right in front of you.

 

Get a motorized license plate holder.

 

Not sure how the cops are in TX, but I haven't been running a front plate in CA for the past 2.5 years. I haven't been pulled over because of it and the one time I was pulled over (for speeding) I wasn't ticketed for it.

 

Wish it was that simple in IL!

 

The front plate is required, but the law is ambiguous on the location. I have had mine in my windshield for several years. My brother got pulled over when the trooper thought he didn't have a front plate but let him go once he saw it in the windshield.

I don't think that would be much of an issue... the plate has forward momentum and is only going to wedge itself more in the windshield. I think you have much more significant problems crashing at those speeds anyways.

ps I am from Houston

 

I better example would be getting T-boned. If you have ever been T-boned (as I have by an oil tanker) on the passenger side, you know that things that were once on the passenger side no longer are. You would be amazed at how far and fast things can fly across a vehicle. Im with you on this one. IMO placing it in the window is the dumbest thing you can do.

 

Problems such as being impaled by a thin flying piece of metal?

Seems that most states require you to place the plate to the front of the vehicle. I know here in Washington you have to display it the furthest forward point of the vehicle (I.E center of the front bumper). Although many get away with it in the windshield it is not legal.

 

Until recently, my car never had a front plate and was not drilled for a plate. After 4.5 years and 2 warnings, I finally got a ticket for it. It is a fix-it ticket, so after installing a front plate, it cost $10 to the court. BTW, the DPS can lookup warnings when they pull you over; the trooper was able to tell me the date of the last no front plate warning.

None of the states that border Texas require a front plate (NM, OK, LA, AR).

I went with this to mount the front plate:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=180493008328

 

I'm on my 3rd front plate ticket. The window thing is not legal according to the second time I got a ticket.

 

Thank you for your Washington anecdote, but Texas law states

A front plate is required, but the placement of the plate at the 'front' of the vehicle is not specific. If you were to be ticketed for having your plate in the windshield, it would be a fix-it ticket. If you do get ticketed for it, it's quite likely that the cop is having a bad day or you are just asking for a ticket.

As to the physics of the plate in a crash, I'm not convinced it would be flying around the car like people claim. In almost any crash situation the plate will have forward momentum and will either wedge itself more into the dashboard or bounce off and lose a significant amount of energy.

 

A plate on a dash looks 100x times worse than on the front bumper. Every pos civic or integra here rides with the plate on the dash along with spray painted rims and chipped fiberglass body kits...so it looks cheap and ghetto. Nothing ruins the look of a clean "higher end" car than the plate on the dash.

Besides...it's not legal. There are height restrictions as to how high a plate needs to be off the ground. Just not strictly enforced

 

You haven't been in a rollover then....


I lost two teeth from what we think was the gps unit on the windshield. It got me on the second tumble. We never impacted going forward.

Looking back on how violent it was...I wouldn't want a thin peice of metal flying around for me to slam my face into.


(btw...the accident was caused by my buddy falling asleep at the wheel coming home at 4am after wrenching on a friends car. He dozed off at 70 and went of the road. We hit a ditch and rolled maybe four or five times. Fun stuff. )