I know I should just ignore it, but it drives me crazy to see people driving around with those “legalise” stickers on the drivers window. Often times it’s compounded by the temporary registration sticker in the windshield well after the owner has received their plates.
What’s more, is that I often see it in luxury cars costing 100K+…I guess in a world where people keep stickers on the baseball cap brims, I shouldn’t be surprised.
And note to dealers…stop putting those service “reminder” stickers on my windshield after I get my car serviced. Though at least those easlly come off without leaving residue.
As my boss discovered after leaving his temp tag sticker on his car window for a year, it’s HARD to remove after a long time, and he’s too busy to spend an hour with a razor trying to get it off.
Same here. But we are a veeeeery small minority of car buyers since those damn things are on virtually every car on the road. I guess most people don’t mind their cars being a moving billboard.
As Inhave said to umpteen dealers over they years, I’ll be happy to provide advertising for your company. But I’m not doing it for free. So pay me for being a driving billboard for you or remove that from my car please.
The wildest ones are where there is the dealer badge on the back and license plate covers on both front and back.
I think some people just assume it’s the law or something. I can’t explain it any other way. Like why would you not remove that shit ASAP?
One dealer I worked for used plate frames to know who bought the car from us for free car washes. No plate frame, no car wash unless you had a tiny sticker on your windshield. But otherwise, I think some people either don’t care, see it as a free plate frame, or it is a source of pride/bragging (i.e. I bought my car from the BMW dealer and not a used car lot). But at the end of the day, who cares what other people do about plate frames? If you don’t want one, just say you don’t want it. You don’t have to make it anything more than that. It’s like complaining the dealer gave you a key chain with their logo on it.
Those license plate frames cause hilarious drama in select circles. Cousin lives nextdoor to a subie salemen. After bringing home his new outback from a cross town rival that had those license plate frames (I assume cause nothing else makes sense), the salesmen started a routine, where every evening he stand in his driveway and act all outraged while looking at the plate frame.
Thankfully that stopped, as he moved to a Kia dealership.
