Ouch, this was a stupid mistake. I'm so used to "normal" plates that I completely forgot about the snap plate being unique. Just noticed today that my front plate was missing and it appears to have broke right below the point where the plate mounts to the arm. Then I remembered that I went through a touchless automatic car wash on Saturday night! THEN I remembered this is about the third time I've used a touchless automatic since getting my snap plate! I've totally forgotten to remove it each time... so I guess on the plus side is that it's lived past at least two touchless automatic car washes... but on the down side, I'm certainly out a $120 license plate holder and now I have a missing front license plate. I'm going to swing by the car wash just for the heck of it today after work and see if the plate is still hanging around somewhere on the ground but short of that now I need to figure out if I can request another license plate from the state of Washington... or if I need a new set... and how much that's going to cost me.
Boy do I feel stupid... I'm not sure if I'm going to buy snap plate again or not. I loved the idea of it and how easy it was to mount (literally took 30 seconds and didn't require ANY drilling of the mount, car, or plate) but at the same time if I DO forget again, I'm not sure I want something that breaks so easy when it's so expensive. The 3D printing was a cool idea and apparently held decently at highway speeds and wind pressure but absolutely didn't have the strength to withstand a touchless wash more then a couple times.(Temperature might have played a factor too since it was about 34F out at the time)