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Is your front license plate bent?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:01 am
by greg donovan
just curious.
the front plate is bent on both my legacies.
i ask this becuase i notice many of the cars in the rotating pic have their plates bent back at the bottom too.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:09 am
by Yukonart
Front plate? What's that?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:19 am
by bmxkelowna
it sure is
folded the top under then folded the bottom up 90* bolted it on then folded it the rest of the way
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:56 am
by THAWA
Yep, new one only took about two months to get bent. I didn't hit anything either. What causes this? The wind?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:44 pm
by mikec
Snow banks did it to mine...
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:20 pm
by greg donovan
mikec wrote:Snow banks did it to mine...
that is what got mine too.
stupid understeer.
although if i slowed down...
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:15 pm
by legacy92ej22t
Yukonart wrote:Front plate? What's that?
+1
You need to add an option for those that don't run front plates.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:24 pm
by Murphy
yeah ive never seen anyone with front plates
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:45 pm
by DLC
Legacy = boring car that cops don't mess with. I haven't run a front plate on any of my three Legacies, and it's never come up, even the one or two times I've been pulled over.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:29 pm
by Legacy777
legacy92ej22t wrote:You need to add an option for those that don't run front plates.
done
DLC wrote:Legacy = boring car that cops don't mess with. I haven't run a front plate on any of my three Legacies, and it's never come up, even the one or two times I've been pulled over.
Ditto....I've been pulled over and they never gave me hell about it.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:55 pm
by AWD_addict
A bent front plate is like an official break-in on a Subaru.
Mine was bent back, then I accidently added a dent from a rock at a rally. It adds character.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:02 pm
by 555BCTurbo
Mine is bent care of the turkey that met my front bumper at 70mph last Memorial Weekend
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:21 pm
by Manarius
Front plate? What front plate?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:51 pm
by evolutionmovement
I got yelled at by a cop when I did have the plate there since he didn't like how low it was. I told him to take it up with the DOT and Subaru of America. I bent mine several times hitting heavy balls of snow left by plows on the highway.
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:58 am
by BAC5.2
I have no idea how mine was bent.
I now have mine in the winshield. No shit from cops, but I rarely drive the car anymore
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:27 am
by thefultonhow
DLC wrote:Legacy = boring car that cops don't mess with. I haven't run a front plate on any of my three Legacies, and it's never come up, even the one or two times I've been pulled over.
Then again, states like Utah and California are a lot less strict than states like Maryland about front plates. Half the cars here don't have front plates, but I guarantee if I took mine off and drove back to Maryland, I'd get a ticket for it within a week.
But yeah, mine's bent... and the black paint on the characters is chipped too. But the plate is as old as I am.
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:10 am
by 91turbogsx
My plate was brand new till winter came and snowbanks bent it back and then just a few days ago it got hammered buy the trailer hitch of a Toyota LandCruiser at 20 mph.
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:51 am
by rallysam
+1 for bent
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:56 am
by bmxkelowna
haha i love seeing that picture
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:49 am
by 0perose
mine's bent
couldn't possibly tell you why, but chances are it was some type of snowbank I hit, as I did plow through one a few times when these people decided to plow a snowbank right into the dirt road I rip up all the time that comes out right by their driveway
could also have been my friend's mazda pickup when I pushed him up a hill in the woods after he got stuck...
curbs
dirt
stumps
who knows?
I thought about ditching the plate but I don't need any added attention from the popo...
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:16 am
by 206er
mine is bent and held with several zip ties. there are no brackets anywhere on the bumper to mount one, and i dont feel like drilling into the bumper.
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:19 am
by IronMonkeyL255
No front plate, FTW!!
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:52 am
by Legacy Rally Guy
My plate shouldn't be bent, it's one of those light up Japanese styles... I'm getting "vanity plates" to match the four numbers on it, so it'll be as legal as possible...
On my other car, the plates were fine until someone did a joyride in it and it came back with grass and mud stuffed in the bumpers. Front plate was ripped away, the rear was bent a lot... Didn't affect the car mechanically though haha, loosers couldn't kill it...
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:35 am
by bepa
are you kidding. too many ways to bend the plate back. in ny you better have a front plate and seat belts on if you do not wish to be stiopped. like the plowing of snow banks, passing the plow when he's going to slow. drifting on dirt roads. best one coming around a dirt road and finding people in the center of the road talking? but yea all of my 4 SS's had/have bend plates
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:07 am
by mattyg41383
My plate is bent as well... also recently dented from an errant softball throw.