Dealer's name tag on my new car

I bought my Tacoma new off the lot, and it had the dreaded sticker on tailgate. A friend said to heat it up with a hair dryer, and it would peel right off. No such luck. It took forever as somehow EACH LETTER was separate from the others. Is there any way of getting them off easily? Sounds like for most of you, it was simply "peel it off".

I've already told the salesman not to put a sticker on my '06 Prius. It should arrive this month (ordered in mid-September), and we'll shall see.

 

Believe it or not, in many states it is illegal to use those license plate frames and you can get a ticket for it. In NY, it is illegal to cover any portion of the license plate with a frame. The ones that dealers typically use cover the words The Empire State at the bottom completely.

Now, it's true that not many cops will write a ticket for such a violation, but once a cop did me a favor and converted a speeding ticket to a ticket for driving with an obscured license plate (I had a bike rack on the car). That's when I learned about the law, and I was able to verify what he told me when I got home.

For any one interested, Performance Products sells a nice lightweight plastic frame that doesn't obscure the plate, except a tiny bit where the screw holes are. I use them on all my vehicles and I think that they look great.

Turbo Frame

You can't really tell from the picture, but the frame is thicker at one edge (i.e. wedge shaped), which nicely complements the Prius body shape when mounted so that the thicker edge is toward the bottom. I would take a picture, but my car is filthy from all the road salt they used over the past few days.

 

I have always been told to use Isopropyl alcohol, but have also heard that WD-40 will work well... I would test both on a less obviouse location to make sure it is not going to damage the paint though, also you may need to re-wax the area after you remove the sticker.

 

Any portion? I'd like to think the concern would be covering relevant portions of the plate and I don't know why the state motto would be all that relevant. Regardless, if that's the law, then it appears as if some dealers violate it with impunity and maybe citations written for such violations should be forwarded to them. :lol:

 

Same thing around here (ohio) you are not supposed to have a frame that covers up any information. Quite a few dealer plate frames covered the county, most have changed their frames so they can stil get an ad on your car without getting you in trouble. (I have never heard of anyone being cited for this though, Schmika is in Ohio also perhaps he will comment on this).

 

Here's the NY state law. I've boldfaced the relevant portion:

Number plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as to be
easily readable and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic
material, and shall not be knowingly covered or coated with any
artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or obscures
such number plates or that distorts a recorded or photographic image of
such number plates, and the view of such number plates shall not be
obstructed by any part of the vehicle or by anything carried thereon,
except for a receiver-transmitter issued by a publicly owned tolling
facility in connection with electronic toll collection when such
receiver-transmitter is affixed to the exterior of a vehicle in
accordance with mounting instructions provided by the tolling facility.

The receiver-transmitter they are referring to is the external EZPass tag, and it doesn't block any more of the plate than a regular frame would, yet they have a special exclusion for it. Here's a picture:

[Broken External Image]:http://www.ezpassmaineturnpike.com/images/LicensePlate.jpg