I just got a $114 fix it ticket in California (from a f'in meter maid!). Sometimes San Francisco REALLY irritates me. Anyway, how do folks affix a front plate? It is going to kill me to ruin the front end like that.

 

Use a couple of zip ties. Get the ticket signed off. Remove. lol

 

You could also use something like this

Swift Motorsports

 

You could use an adhesive Licence Plate (Like an e-type) and move the growler badge on to the bonnet (Hood). That what I have done in the UK.

 

SO glad I don't have to deal with the front plates in GA!!!

 

Here's a print and a photo of the plate mount that was on my XKR. I don't use it, but it was adjustable on height. It's illegal in Illinois but I just take my chances.

 

Don't put one on, the cost of the ticket pays for the timeless beauty of the front .

 

In California, you can't just pay the ticket. You need to have your vehicle inspected and the ticket signed off to clear it. That's why I suggested only zip tying it. Zip ties are easy to cut off.

 

I mounted it on the lower portion of the bumper then used grey plastic cover to tone it down even more.

 

This has come up a few times and I always forgot to post a few pics of what I did. Kalifornia has gotten much more strict about passing out chickens**t tickets for things like no front license and window tinting and I was the recipient of a no-front-license ticket on a Corvette that had been front license-free for 13 years.

When I bough the Jaguar, the previous owner did not have a front plate mounted (he barely drove the car) but he did have the plastic mounting piece from Jaguar. So what I did was mount the plate onto the plastic mount and then secure the plastic mount to the lower splitter piece by wrapping long zip ties.

The result is similar to the aftermarket kits I have seen advertised that are a couple of $hundred. For some reason the lowered mount kits for the post-2003 models are ridiculously high compared with the earlier models.


Doug

 

I don't plan on ever putting a front plate on mine and since the police got an up close view of the car when inspecting it after vandalism without saying anything about it, I think I'm pretty safe. What I had thought about though, since I own an early car, is to bend the plate down to match the curve below the overriders and attach it with double-sided body molding tape. It would be low, somewhat harder to read, and probably still technically illegal, but it would be on there and minimally destroying the beautiful lines of the car.

 

Why is it illegal? Is it something to do with the long stays that hold it in place at the bottom?

 

Here in Illinois it important for us to use front license plates. It gives our ex-governors something to do

 

Frog, I'm thinking it's plate height. Minnesota has the same thing.

 

Yeah, we have all sorts of height restrictions here in Europe, too, though in this case it doesn' really appear to be any lower than mine. Any higher and it would restrict airflow to the rad It must be a bit difficult sometimes when you have to find a suitable place for your US plates on a European car, as they are designed to take our much wider shallower plates.

 

Crispy, I forgot to ask. How does a municipal by-law officer get away with issuing a ticket for a Highway traffic act offence? Where do they get the authority for that?

 

Crispy - here's how mine looks like. It's been setup that way since the day the car was purchased by the original owner from Bay Area's BMC dealer (I think they're at Van Ness).

In TX we are required to have front and back plate - so I never thought about taking it off.

 

As quoted by Frog
Frog I meant it's illegal not to have one I took mine off and haven't put it on.
As quoted by Glenn
That's funny but, sadly it's true.

 

 

Here's mine. I pieced together parts from a couple of cars I found at the Pick-a-Part. I tried to keep it as low as I could. I do have to be real careful parking and going in & out of steep-ish driveways. (Read that: I've had to touch it up a couple of times.)



I see a lot of cars without them, but the Meter-Maids in Seattle busted my son-in-law for not having a front plate on his Mercedes. I guess the city must have passed an ordinance that says vehicles in the city must comply with the State laws.