My thoughts precisely when I see plates altered on the web and hundreds or thousands of eyes potentially seen it that day on the road.
Custom License Plates - Anyone else installed one?
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I think the reach of the internet is greater than that of people who would physically see the vehicle on any given day. [MyTake] ID theft is bad enough without help. [/MyTake]Do you cover yours when you ride?
Do you ride all over the world at all times?Do you cover yours when you ride?
License plate info is public record - that is why you can put your plate number into various car buying sites and have it pull up your exact vehicle information. But everyone needs to secure things that they think need securing.
All my bikes have custom plates. They are all sounds from comic books.
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Kent Larson in Minnesota
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Kent Larson in Minnesota
Agreed but, IMHO, overly paranoid.This is all cool and everything but posting your plate number on the internet for the world to see can be a problem nowadays.
You expose your plate to people every day.
If someone wants to target your ride, get your plate number, look up your address and steal it, anyone who sees your bike out and about can do it.
Posting your plate on the internet just increases the chance of that happening as you now have increased the number of people who have seen your bike and plate. But, really, by how much? Are there bots working the net looking for plates so thieves can target rides to steel? Doubtful. Especially not low-profit vehicles like used bikes.
As I say that, I got paranoid enough to remove my plates from the last post. I don't have any collectables, but volume alone could make someone a high value target.
(Hate F'n thieves. Put some effort into making something good for the world and profit off that instead of thinking you are entitled to someone else's stuff they worked hard to acquire, you lazy pricks!)
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Kent Larson in Minnesota
Custom plates in Minnesota are $100 extra to get the plate. After that, they don't cost any more to re-register than normal plates ($17.50 (i think) per year for bikes). Even after they are out too long and the DMV requires a new one sent out, there isn't any additional charge.Yep that was what talked me out of it - getting hit with the fee every year, even though they weren't giving me a new plate.
I don't know whether my new state (NM) charges each year for a vanity plate, but it's under $20 so not that bad.
there's no free lunch though - don't get me started on our MVD and their outright greed with regard to used vehicle purchases.
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Kent Larson in Minnesota
Ha! That was my exact thought as well back when I was a young hoodlum doing questionable thinks on the bike. My plate was, let's say, "MAVERICK" (it wasn't but similarly memorable).I did a few back in the 80s until I realized it makes it easier for others to remember your tag if they call it in...
I imagined conversations with the police that could go like:
Yes, he was traveling at least 150mph. His plate had a Y and a 2, I think.
But instead would go like:
...at least 150mph. And his plate was "MAVERICK". Yes "MAVERICK" I remember that exactly.
So, then I removed my custom plate.
Now that I'm no longer a young hoodlum, I've gone back to custom plates. As an old hoodlum, I find it easier to talk my way out of tickets.
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Kent Larson in Minnesota (and being overly verbose today for some reason)
Texas charges $150.00/year for the just the vanity portion. Then you have to add on the registration costs.
So not worth it...
So not worth it...
Personalized plate here is a one-time C$310..... regular fees only for renewals. Plates here are not a record the public can look up. Even cops can't just go look up a plate for no reason, must have probable cause. That said, they are currently rolling out scanning cameras to scan plates as the cruisers drive..... notification will pop up if reported stolen, expired, or on a bulletin list.
How, exactly?This is all cool and everything but posting your plate number on the internet for the world to see can be a problem nowadays.
No but the whole don't see it.
And what do they do with it once the see it?
A lot of they want to. Address,street view of your house,your full name, how many and names of your kids ,income, place of employment or retired even if you own dogs or cats. Just a start.
I just Googled my plate number and nothing remotely tracing it to me showed up.
What methods would you use to track me down?
What methods would you use to track me down?
Loose lips sink ships. It's all bits and pieces. The more pieces you give them, the fewer they have to find on their own. Who remembers their security briefings from the military?How, exactly?
Not very convincing.
I salute that. It's a door mat for scammers.
Its easier to just go through someone's forum posts if you want a bunch of info about them. Even easier if they tend to use the same username on multiple forums. Using a license plate would be a lot of extra work.I salute that. It's a door mat for scammers.
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