Clear plastic license plate covers

 

Quebec has now made it illegal to have a clear plastic license plate protector over the top of your plate. Apparently the speed and red light cameras cannot read the plate properly when one is in place. Minimum fine $250 for the first time then the fines ramp up to just over $4000 for a multi time offender. The local BMW dealer has been giving them away with every car sold for years and has now had to inform all customers that they are illegal.
Who said it is not about the money.

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been illegal in California for quite a while

but that doesn't stop people from using them.

Mythbusters a season or two ago did a couple of shows on stuff that supposedly would beat radar cameras -- plate covers, sprays, etc -- none of them worked.

a plate cover with half an inch of re-frozen dirty slush could work, though!

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How about a sunshade?

I was thinking that a sunshade that kept the sun from fading my plate would be appreciated by the DMV smile

I wonder how long it would have to be to still allow a cop to see it, but not the taller camera.

Can't be illegal, as I think my Tour-Pak obscures the plate from the camera now.

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Slush

k6rtm wrote:

a plate cover with half an inch of re-frozen dirty slush could work, though!

I would think a half an inch of re-frozen dirty slush would work with or without the plate cover.

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Clear Cover

It has also been illegal in New York to cover plate with clear plastic, but no one said anything about a piece of tape stategically placed. lol

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Mythbusters

k6rtm wrote:

Mythbusters a season or two ago did a couple of shows on stuff that supposedly would beat radar cameras -- plate covers, sprays, etc -- none of them worked.

I have to find that program. "A friend" told me that that spray can stuff works, but the clear cover not always. Of course, I wouldn't know smile

most hated frame

One car passed me on the road at dusk.
Color: black
Windows: darkest tint I've ever seen
License plate cover: smoked with bright neon ring light around it.

It was impossible to read the plate #. Too much contrast. Wouldn't stop red light cameras from reading it though!

Cover

I only have it on the front, it gets the most damage as a matter of fact time to change it 10th one since I had the car.

YouTube

ifse wrote:
k6rtm wrote:

Mythbusters a season or two ago did a couple of shows on stuff that supposedly would beat radar cameras -- plate covers, sprays, etc -- none of them worked.

I have to find that program. "A friend" told me that that spray can stuff works, but the clear cover not always. Of course, I wouldn't know smile

It's on YouTube, but I never thought for one second they would air something that would cheaply, covertly, and effectively obscure your plate. Kind of like when they tried to "beat" the Breathalyzer, did anyone watching think if they actually found something that worked they would show it?

illinois

still can have

This does work

xtremx wrote:

still can have

I have seen a device that fits over the plate that has 5 or 6 horizontal pieces of plastic running across the plate. From ground level a cop can see the plate clearly. However when a high mounted camera is pointed down the plastic obscures the plate.

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PhotoBlocker Spray

PhotoBlocker is a highly reflective clear gloss paint that you spray over your license plate.
Supposedly, the flash of the redlight camera is reflected back into the lens of the traffic camera. The picture should come out over exposed.

Quite often, I will drive 10 hours a day, through city streets, Plagued by Redlight Cameras.
San Francisco, and Berkeley are the worst. Sometimes you just cant help catching a flash.

Anyways, I've been using photoblocker (and poi-factory redlight camera files) for 2 years, and I have not received a ticket.

Yes, I have seen the redlight cams flash 3x, and once in the HOV lane of the bay bridge.
(Dont know if they have a camera on Bridge, but I would assume so!)

I've never received a ticket. Either there are alot of defective cameras, or photoblocker works.

Before anyone gets sarcastic about my driving skills, remember I drive 1500 Miles a week. City Driving. Somepeople see 1 camera a day. I pass through 3 each way on my commute to work, PLUS atleast 10 more when trekking through the city.

Maybe it works, maybe it doesnt?

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Lic Frame

In Delaware your not even allowed to have a Frame around the plate.

smoked license cover

I've had one on my TL for a couple of years. I've had cops driving behind me a few times and have yet to be pulled over although it not legal. It was more for cosmetic than function so after a while I decided to take the cover off. Just piece of mind, not giving cops a reason to pull over and risk a ticket.

Good move

You never want to give the police an excuse to pull you over. Who knows what they are looking for when they use an excuse to check you out.

Doing the right thing!!!

vtec260 wrote:

I've had one on my TL for a couple of years. I've had cops driving behind me a few times and have yet to be pulled over although it not legal. It was more for cosmetic than function so after a while I decided to take the cover off. Just piece of mind, not giving cops a reason to pull over and risk a ticket.

Good way to see it, when we know that something is wrong, we should stay away from it, this way if the cops pull us over for something we already know is wrong, we will not gripe about anything else that they might find

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Spray doesn't work.

I read on the internet that the only thing that works is the spray so i found it and bought it. I followed instructions to the letter, sprayed on sever coats and ran through a speed zone a couple of weeks ago. I can report that my license plate number showed up clear as a bell on the violation.

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The spray works well......

Yeah.....
The spray is like an Invisibility cloak! Better still, it is like when I was a kid, people said that if you closed your eyes, no one would see you. I guess it might be true, but....

I sure wish I had the license plate spray concession rather than the "Male Enhancement" potions I am trying to sell on eBay.

Illinois law

Beginning June last year, any cover over a license plate is illegal.

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Against the law in NY

and it has been for several years. No Glass or Plastic coverings of any kind are allowed.

It is also against the law to have anything that obstructs any information on the plate such as a frame that interfears with the readability of the plate.

photoblocker

Ive been using a photoblocker plate cover for about 4 years now. I live around SF, CA. Ive never been pulled over for the cover (knock on wood), but I have for speeding several times. Only until about a year ago did one cop ever say anything to me about the cover after I got pulled over. And he only said it because the cover was yellowing from the sun after 3 years. Ive been in front of cop cars a lot without them pulling me over. About 3 months ago at a stoplight, an undercover cop was behind me kitty corner and pulled up to me and said my plate was old and needed to be replaced. He said he could barely read my plate it was so yellow. My seatbelt was also off and then I said thanks for letting me know, smiled and drove off. Never got ticketed for it. Lucky? Or just the cops had better things todo?

Anyway, the plates work, the spray doesnt. Radar deflection is a joke. Radar jamming is too expensive. You need to have both front and rear plates covered to make it work. Ive driven thru toll booths where my fastpass didnt trigger - happens all the time. Pre photoblocker, I was getting at least 1 toll violation a month. Now its 0 - I feel Im actually saving tax payers money for not getting the ticket generated, which Im sure costs at least $100 to process.

I still need to change my yellowed cover. I will be getting them from PhantomPlate next for both my cars and motorcycle. If you do get the covers, ensure you get the ones that block from all angles, left, right, top and bottom.

Good Info, thanks! I am

Good Info, thanks! I am going to try to find some of those. I would like them for my cars and my motorcycle. Hope they aren't too expensive but if it saves one ticket, it's worth it.

http://www.phantomplate.com/photoshield.html

tfbaker wrote:

Good Info, thanks! I am going to try to find some of those. I would like them for my cars and my motorcycle. Hope they aren't too expensive but if it saves one ticket, it's worth it.

http://www.phantomplate.com/photoshield.html

PhotoShield

http://www.phantomplate.com/photoshield.html
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So I just literally bought my PhotoShields from the website above. I got 3 Photoshields (buy 2 get 1 free) for my car and then the motorcycle PhotoShield for $70.69 (4 pieces total). I used a discount code for joining their mailing list. You prolly can use it too, to get 10% off - CAMERASHY.

L.E.D plates

What about L.E.D license plates that could be activated with your car ownership card and could not be changed until your renewal? Just a taught….

Toll road

We have a license plate toll in Denver now, where the tolls are billed to the registered owner of the vehicle.

At least they admit it's about the money.

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Maryland

I believe you can still use clear covers in Maryland, just as long as it doesnt "distort" the license letters/numbers.

Im glad I live in Texas.

I can put anything on my Dash or windsheild.
I can put clear plastic over my plates
I can carry a loaded handgun in my car without a CHL
I can have all the Radar Detectors I want.
I guess my state knows a person has enough common sense to know when something is blocking your view.
But dont try to drink and drive here. We have signs at every state line entry that says, (DWI, You Cant Afford It" And they mean it!!! I dont know this by experence I just know the law.

I feel for you Brothers and Sisters of the Great White North.
ps. In Texas all a radar detector is good for, is to inform you. Your fixing to get a ticket.

A tree leaf stuck on my

A tree leaf stuck on my license frame and blocked a a letter by accident. smile grin

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delta909 wrote:

A tree leaf stuck on my license frame and blocked a a letter by accident. smile grin

Would that be from a HAZElnut tree? smile grin laugh out loud

Sorry...

Why Not

razz You know what works best how about driving the speed limit and save your money and not buying into the hype that doesn't work. I know I know what would be the fun of that razz

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Idiocy tax?

Here's an article out of the Miami Herald that likens red light cameras as a "Tax on Idiocy."

http://www.miamiherald.com/418/story/1208927.html

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License tag covers

The covers are optical distortion covers and they are extremely effective. However, they are illegal in Georgia, too. I got a ticket for running a red light that I couldn't see. I was doing everything right but the truck ahead blocked my view. When he "hit the gas" I was in the middle of an intersection with a red light and camera. I got a ticket from a camera. I was sent the pictures from the cameras and I Photoshopped the pictures to show how, from my angle, there was no way that I could have seen the intersection. I admitted to the judge that did this to show the angles. She agreed that there was no way that I could have seen, BUT, it's my responsibility to KNOW where the traffic signal is. Pay the fine. So I bought two of the optical distortion covers. The complete tag number is NOT visible unless you are within a narrow angle directly behind the car. I was pulled over by a cop about 6 weeks ago for the optical cover, albeit I have been stopped on routine license checks four times with no comment. Georgia law is $1500 fine (felony, too!) and you must appear in court! I was lucky. The prosecutor had already checked my driving record. I proved that I took the cover off of the plate - it was a "plastic cover that got sun crazed by UV rays and I didn't know it" - I was NOT under oath! $10 fine! WHEW.

I have one on my car

I have one on my car and have had the police behind me many times. Never and issue. I also came out of my son's school to a cop writing me a ticket for parking in a drop off zone. I explained to him I was dropping my son of but I had to go in a sign him in, the truth, he tore up the ticket and did not comment on the plate cover. I live in PA.

I did try to go into canada a few years ago. The canadian customs agent made me take it off before he let me in.

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Why????

I think car thieves, bank robbers and all criminals should use them so their cars can't be traced. What people won't do to keep from getting a ticket when they break the law is really unbelievable. I don't understand what some are so afraid of...Obey speed limits and don't run red lights = no problems!!! Seems like a waste of money....buy your spouse something nice instead...

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Yep, I got stopped in Mass. a while ago

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/22956

The trooper said Massachusetts owns the plates and you can't obstruct them in any way. Reason, red light cameras don't always pick up covered plates; some frames cover "Spirit of Massachusetts" or "Commercial" (and Mass. issues plates for each of these sayings), speed pass cameras also can't read covered plates. So they say.

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Plate Cover

I am sorry, I can not help it. LOL

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Protection

farrissr wrote:

I think car thieves, bank robbers and all criminals should use them so their cars can't be traced. What people won't do to keep from getting a ticket when they break the law is really unbelievable. I don't understand what some are so afraid of...Obey speed limits and don't run red lights = no problems!!! Seems like a waste of money....buy your spouse something nice instead...

I have vanity plates that cost me more than the standard plates. I was trying to protect my investment. Many plates in New England get pitted from salt on the winter roads. I wanted the plates to look nice and clean all year. Oh well.

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Not a criminal here

farrissr wrote:

I think car thieves, bank robbers and all criminals should use them so their cars can't be traced. What people won't do to keep from getting a ticket when they break the law is really unbelievable. I don't understand what some are so afraid of...Obey speed limits and don't run red lights = no problems!!! Seems like a waste of money....buy your spouse something nice instead...

Just do not like the fact that they are using cameras to enforce traffic laws. Everyone as accidentally run a red light at one time or another. A human police officer, if one is even there, may or may not decide to ticket if there were extenuating circumstances that would cause someone to run a red light. one of those cameras just gives one. I refuse to pay more taxes. This $20 investment is a good one as far as I am concerned. I do not purposely use it to run ezpass booths, red lights or to speed.

If I were to steal a car or rob a bank the first thing I would do is remove the tag or replace it with a stolen one.

The license plates are just another tax themselves.

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Extenuating circumstances

I suppose that the pct of red light runners with doing so because of extenuating circumstances is small. They do exist and don't seem to be accounted for with this technology.

Damn it

So I just got the PhotoShields. Too my disappointment, they have changed the form factor for the US Plate Cover. It is no longer a flat piece of plastic, but a bulbous cover with a strip of their photoshield plastic glued in the middle. The cover is about half inch deep. Damn it.. thats pretty obvious.

I called their customer service, and they said they just recently changed because of too many complaints of the plastic breaking during shipping. He was willing to refund it. I think I just may remove the photoshield strip and put them on some Wallymart or TAP plastics cheepy thin plastic covers. It maybe cheaper than paying for shipping for return.

Or just return them and get the photoshield from
http://www.ontrackcorp.com/super-protector.cfm?id=05
instead.

The motorcycle plate cover I got works great.

clear plastic license

it's ridiculous for fining people for having that clear plastic. it should be a fix it ticket the first 2 times then maybe a $30 fine on the 3rd one.

Why

It's against the law the very first time, yet alone the third time. it's time to be law abiding.

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No way.....

iplayball wrote:

it's ridiculous for fining people for having that clear plastic. it should be a fix it ticket the first 2 times then maybe a $30 fine on the 3rd one.

How many times do you have to be told not to stick your finger in fire or don't park in front of the fire hydrant???? If it is against the law then why should you get a warning twice???? How about fix it the first time and a $500 fine the second time...

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They used to sell a kind at

They used to sell a kind at my local parts store that i'm sure would work. It was clear but divided into for separate parts. On each of the four parts it had lines pressed into it. each one went a different way so you could only see a section of the plate from any given angle at a time. Straight on it looked perfectly normal and clear.

The covers that blur the

The covers that blur the numbers from the side view and top view actually work...that's why they are illegal. They don't work if the camera flashes you directly from behind, like if you're making a left turn through an intersection while the light turns red.

In Arizona a cop generally won't pull you over for one, but if he stops you for something else he will tell you to take it off or else you'll get a ticket for it.

LED's?

I've heard that you can use bright LED's around your plate to cause the camera to be blinded to that area. I'm not sure if it works or not. Could be worth a try.

Get rid of bad laws

BobDee wrote:

It's against the law the very first time, yet alone the third time. it's time to be law abiding.

It's tiem to get rid of bad laws that are designed to make money for other people. If that meeans civil disobedience, so be it. We need to get rid of the attitude that just because it is a law, it's a good thing.

And especially when you have stupid laws like this one where something that harms no one and would not otherwise seem to have a reason to be illegal, it is probably a good idea just to give out warnings until we can get rid of the law.

Do something...

tomturtle wrote:
BobDee wrote:

It's against the law the very first time, yet alone the third time. it's time to be law abiding.

It's time to get rid of bad laws that are designed to make money for other people. If that means civil disobedience, so be it. We need to get rid of the attitude that just because it is a law, it's a good thing.

And especially when you have stupid laws like this one where something that harms no one and would not otherwise seem to have a reason to be illegal, it is probably a good idea just to give out warnings until we can get rid of the law.

All I ever hear are people complaining...someone needs to get off their duffs and do something if the law is so bad. Why does anyone need plastic covers for their plates anyway??? I don't buy the idea that it protects them either....from what I am reading it is so they cannot be identified when they break the law...

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Saving tax payers money

farrissr wrote:
tomturtle wrote:
BobDee wrote:

It's against the law the very first time, yet alone the third time. it's time to be law abiding.

It's time to get rid of bad laws that are designed to make money for other people. If that means civil disobedience, so be it. We need to get rid of the attitude that just because it is a law, it's a good thing.

And especially when you have stupid laws like this one where something that harms no one and would not otherwise seem to have a reason to be illegal, it is probably a good idea just to give out warnings until we can get rid of the law.

All I ever hear are people complaining...someone needs to get off their duffs and do something if the law is so bad. Why does anyone need plastic covers for their plates anyway??? I don't buy the idea that it protects them either....from what I am reading it is so they cannot be identified when they break the law...

I bought my photoshield only for toll booths incorrectly taking my picture when my transponder does not register. Of course Im doing the speed limit thru there and also have a credit card on file for autopay. So why should I waste an hour of my time to deal with fixing a problem of theirs? It takes over $100 to process that notification that is sent to me. Im doing you and all the other tax payers a favor by having my plate cover.

If we all did our part and had plate covers, it would eventually add up and help prevent raising toll costs.

Itd be interesting to see the data on false photo shots.

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