Is it possible to clear wrap a license plate?

My new license plates should be arriving shortly? Idea came to mind, is it possible to clear wrap front and/or back license plates to protect from thieves stealing tags? I have special frames I want to use from my club. (www.srop.org)

 

You must be in California. I had to Google what a license plate wrap is, and I found this:

https://www.motor1.com/news/590018/how-to-get-front-license-plate-wrap-california/

 

Not quite what I had in mind-but thanks anyway. I should have been more specific, 3M clear wrap for a license plate, front or rear. There would have to be a cutaway for new tags.
I found some "Nano" type film on Amazon at $39 for a single sheet. That's a little pricey for a license plate cover? Objective is to use a metal license plate frame from
the club I belong to.

 

How will that prevent theft of your plate?

 

I don't see how a layer of plastic prevents theft of the plate. Perhaps you could replace the mounting bolts with anti-theft specialty bolts.

 

Sorry to spoil your party, but in most states it is not legal to put anything to cover a plate, even if it is clear.

 

I think he means the stickers on the plate.

 

Mostly to keep the new plates pristine AND to prevent theft of the registration sticker. Lot's of thefts in California cities, the homeless and other creatures will steal anything not bolted down. The local Walmart Supercenter
in Poway has had the hard liquor locked in a glass case for awhile now. Recently I saw now they have the Men's underwear locked up too! A number of the larger food markets have started locking up the hard liquor.
If you want a bottle of hard stuff you have to let them know up at the check stands, they send someone back with you to the locked cabinet and pull your choice. Then they carry it up front to a designated check stand
to wait for you to make the purchase.

 

This is why I like the idea of those electronic plates but they’re pricey.

 

https://reviver.com/?hsa_acc=276144...6NJzsFH895CwuDT-Dh3uoPZvo3A5hvnRoC1zsQAvD_BwE

 

In TX we've had interior windshield stickers since the approx the 90s. Surprised that CA still does the ancient plate stickers. Lol.

And why only men's underwear locked up? Lol. I saw a story on cnbc that SFO doesn't even prosecute theft, so Target gets robbed daily.

 

Whacking the sticker with a box cutter cross-hatched is the classic solution and ought to do it. and then you won’t have to redo the wrap every year or so.

As for keeping the plate pristine, I don’t know.

 

Around here people coat plates so they look clear but reflect in photos to obscure the photos taken by red light cameras.

 

Some States made it a ticket offense to put anything over their license plate (State property). Something about camera imaging of your license plate!

 

Kind of surprised to hear that is happening in Poway.

 

Who cares if they steal your sticker? As stated by someone else, cross-hatch cut it if you want, but otherwise why bother.

 

I haven't had to do this, but I'm guessing it would be somewhat of a headache to replace your license plate sticker if it gets stolen. If you do not replace it, then you would be subject to getting pulled over and asked about it by the cops.

 

If you're doing something wrong, it's a reason to pull you over. If you're not doing anything wrong, they read your plate, it comes up as current and they follow the next guy/gal. The cops don't pull you over unless they want to, unless you give them a reason. I know this sounds odd, but I purposely ran around for years without tags on my license plate to see if I'd get pulled over. My registration was current, but I kept the stickers in the glove box. It was an interesting experiment.

Many, I won't say most, cars now have automatic plate readers. They know whether your plates are current when you drive by.

At some point soon, the stickers will be obsolete; they are no longer necessary, EXCEPT, they give the cops a reason to pull you over.

 

I think we're pretty much on the same page about all this. Not having the sticker gives the cops a reason to pull you over if they want to; then they can go after you for tint too dark, tail light mods, do you mind if I search your vehicle, do you have any guns in the vehicle, I smell alcohol/weed, etc., etc., etc. Even though there's never anything they could legitimately bust me for (well, maybe the window tint, LOL), I try to avoid those interactions when possible because you never know when you'll cross paths with that rare bad apple cop.

 

PA stickers are long gone.

 

How do they steal the sticker? Doesn’t it tear up immediately upon removal?

 

Why do you care about plate condition? lol do those things chip easily?

 

The plates on my 06 Tacoma which I sold a couple of months ago had plates that were starting to flake.
Might as well try and keep my plates in as good a condition as my new 4Runner which I intend to keep as long as possible.

 

That was a problem in PA (stealing plates to cut out the registration sticker) until the state did away with the sticker. Also saved tax payer money from printing and sending out new sticker every year.