No rear license plate in CA?

rabican

rabican

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Im on vacation in CA this past week and iv noticed cars with no rear or front license plates on their car. I dont understand this...at first i saw one or two and thought maybe they just bought the car...since then iv noticed maybe 5 diff cars every day so this couldnt be the case.

*no the plates are not in the window*
 
Not sure what the deal is with those cars you saw... :dunno:

Legally, you must display license plates on the front and back of your car in CA.
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I live in CA and my car displays both the plates that were issued to me.
 
have you seen this? i asked my friend who lives in ca and he said he sees it alot but has no idea how they get away with it...
 
rabican said:
not always
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Well I was going to say, Nothing against their race, if they are legal that's cool, but a lot of illegal's don't have plates because technically they cant get them.
And even normal citizens sometimes dont have plates due to countless reasons. Crime down there is crazy, so who knows.
 
those cars that don't have a license plate should have a red sticker on their rear window. this signifies that its a car that was just bought, and they can't register it usually due to a smog issue, and they have until the month displayed on the sticker (9 means september) to correct the issue.

i honestly don't know why there's NO license plate though, that makes no sense.
 
Zero V said:
Well I was going to say, Nothing against their race, if they are legal that's cool, but a lot of illegal's don't have plates because technically they cant get them.
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it should still be on the car though. usually they buy the car, but don't update it through DMV, so when they get into an accident, they just run away....

then the guy that sold the car is holding a sale slip for someone who may or may not be a real person, and is definitely not a citizen, so they are responsible for damages, and impound fees....
 
rabican said:
Im on vacation in CA this past week and iv noticed cars with no rear or front license plates on their car. I dont understand this...at first i saw one or two and thought maybe they just bought the car...since then iv noticed maybe 5 diff cars every day so this couldnt be the case.

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A lot of newer cars in CA now have paper temporary tags (usually in the rear plate area), but they can be easy to miss, especially if you're not used to them. Before 2019, dealers didn’t even issue temporary plates—just a registration slip in the window—so some folks drove around without plates legally for a while.
 
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