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Borla · 01-10-2006, 06:02 AM

For those of you that live in states that put the little yearly stickers on your license plates, are yours current? The reason I ask is that we just put the one for Jan '06 on my wife's car. She had picked up the sticker, but didn't put it on. I got in her car last week and it was sitting in the console. I got out and put it on the car. Then I decided to start being more observant to the cars around me in traffic and see how many are current. You can't really read the month on the sticker at highway speeds, but any expiring in 2005 are bright green in IL, and any expiring in 2006 are bright yellow. So basically, any green sticker is expired, and at least for the month of January, any yellow sticker is current. Every day I've noticed at least a handful of cars (never fewer than three) that are expired every time I leave the house. Some are on very nice cars, so I'm assuming they have the $78 or whatever it is to renew, and it's just a matter of laziness/disorganization?

What is the status in your household? All vehicles current? We have three cars. Two are current, my other car is a "play/summer" car. Since I don't drive it in the winter, I usually just go get the new sticker in March or whenever. I'll have the sticker on it before I drive it.

For any LEOs we may have here, what is standard practice when you see the sticker is expired? Do you even pay that much attention to them unless you are looking for a reason to pull a particular car over for some other suspicion? What would cause you to issue a ticket for it instead of a warning?

(Mods, this is more targeted towards the discussion of the stickers, so I think this is a better place than the auto forum for it. Hopefully it's ok to leave here?)

01-10-2006, 06:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
Borla Junkie	Are your license plate stickers current? For those of you that live in states that put the little yearly stickers on your license plates, are yours current? The reason I ask is that we just put the one for Jan '06 on my wife's car. She had picked up the sticker, but didn't put it on. I got in her car last week and it was sitting in the console. I got out and put it on the car. Then I decided to start being more observant to the cars around me in traffic and see how many are current. You can't really read the month on the sticker at highway speeds, but any expiring in 2005 are bright green in IL, and any expiring in 2006 are bright yellow. So basically, any green sticker is expired, and at least for the month of January, any yellow sticker is current. Every day I've noticed at least a handful of cars (never fewer than three) that are expired every time I leave the house. Some are on very nice cars, so I'm assuming they have the $78 or whatever it is to renew, and it's just a matter of laziness/disorganization? What is the status in your household? All vehicles current? We have three cars. Two are current, my other car is a "play/summer" car. Since I don't drive it in the winter, I usually just go get the new sticker in March or whenever. I'll have the sticker on it before I drive it. For any LEOs we may have here, what is standard practice when you see the sticker is expired? Do you even pay that much attention to them unless you are looking for a reason to pull a particular car over for some other suspicion? What would cause you to issue a ticket for it instead of a warning? (Mods, this is more targeted towards the discussion of the stickers, so I think this is a better place than the auto forum for it. Hopefully it's ok to leave here?) __________________ Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde!!!!