Model ☰ License Plate Ideas?

[Dave Garaffa]

How did you get vanity plates in advance of getting the car?? I called the motor vehicles division yesterday and they said they would not allow that.

Yea the only way I know to get a custom / vanity plate in NY/NJ is to have a vehicle you're willing to put it on 'now'. Since my 2008 Subaru Tribeca just had a regular old plate (and I'm willing to put the new vanity plate on it now) I was good to go.

Now if I had an ILUVBECAS plate on my car then yea I'd have a problem...

Yea probably MORE than ONE.

 

[Jason Bourne]

Yeah, that's what I did. I got my vanity plate assigned to a car I knew I was getting rid of in a few months. Now I have my Tesla plate on my garage wall ready to go...

 

[Dave Garaffa]

Yeah, that's what I did. I got my vanity plate assigned to a car I knew I was getting rid of in a few months. Now I have my Tesla plate on my garage wall ready to go...

NY is much nicer than NJ in NJ If you sell a vehicle and do not transfer its plates to another vehicle, you have to turn in the old plates to the MVC.

 

[Dave Garaffa]

Here's a random Vanity Plate question to all those who have been down this road before...

Do you vanity plates have a higher risk of being stolen? I'd have to assume yes and if so does anyone know where one might get bolts with 'tamper proof' heads like odd star drive or some other non 'regular or philips head' as so to dissuade the average joe/jane sixpack from grabbing said plate on some drunken whim?

I say YEA if someone wants it bad enough they WILL find a way to get some non-standard bolt off to take the pate but for the vast majority it'll keep em busy long enough so they move on to their NEXT 'bad idea'.

Edit: And to answer my own question Amazon has quite a few options to choose from... Just search tamper resistant vanity plate bolts.

 

[nativewolf]

Yea the only way I know to get a custom / vanity plate in NY/NJ is to have a vehicle you're willing to put it on 'now'. Since my 2008 Subaru Tribeca just had a regular old plate (and I'm willing to put the new vanity plate on it now) I was good to go.

Now if I had an ILUVBECAS plate on my car then yea I'd have a problem...

Yea probably MORE than ONE.

The poster was in Australia

 

[Jason Bourne]

Here's a random Vanity Plate question to all those who have been down this road before...

Do you vanity plates have a higher risk of being stolen? I'd have to assume yes and if so does anyone know where one might get bolts with 'tamper proof' heads like odd star drive or some other non 'regular or philips head' as so to dissuade the average joe/jane sixpack from grabbing said plate on some drunken whim?

I'm not sure why someone would want to steal a vanity plate. If they want to be a jerk, then you can't reason with stupidity. But are you wondering if the thief would see value in your plate? I don't think a vanity plate could be registered to another car without showing proof that it was previously registered to you.

 

[MP3Mike]

I'm not sure why someone would want to steal a vanity plate. If they want to be a jerk, then you can't reason with stupidity. But are you wondering if the thief would see value in your plate? I don't think a vanity plate could be registered to another car without showing proof that it was previously registered to you.

It is probably just like with street signs, people like to use them for decoration...

 

[Dave Garaffa]

It is probably just like with street signs, people like to use them for decoration...

Yep exactly... I guess the degree of undesired behavior is directly proportional to the distance one is to a very large metro area and here in NJ we are king... (NJ #1 Density by states by population rank and land area also the highest taxed iirc)

 

[Dave Garaffa]

The poster was in Australia

Nope the person I was responding to was "Location: New York, NY"

 

[ne0x]

AUSTRALIA

Yeah in Australia we can order plates and put them into storage, this is however at a cost of $500 AUD / $375 USD per year - so you have to REALLY want them

 

[AlanJ]

THX ELON

 

[SΞXY P100D]

FRACKU

 

[BlackHammer]

These were all good ideas!!!
I can't think of anything yet, but I have plenty of time to get something custom.

 

[PLFour]

Shockingly III is still available in my state.

 

[Topher]

 

[mistermatt]

"MY T3SLA" .. done. Will sit in the closet for a couple years.

 

[Jason Bourne]

Should that be read/said with a Boston accent?

 

[X Girl]

I just ordered in California

 

[wallet.dat]

SPA8N5E

P85 inSANE (or whatever the kWh happens to be for the P version).

 

[Topher]

Should that be read/said with a Boston accent?

Nope, A Maine one.