Does your state issue new registration plates or just a tab?

[Bird]

There's been many changes in Texas over the years. I can remember when the annual state safety inspection sticker cost $2.:laughing: And as long as I can remember, Texas uses 2 license plates; one on the rear and one on the front. Many years ago, you got new metal plates each year. And also, many years ago, all the plates expired at the same time, and all the state safety inspection stickers expired at the same time. One was April 1 and the other April 15, but I've forgotten which was which. There used to be long lines the last day or two before they expired.:laughing: And then Texas went to just issuing a little sticker to put on your rear license plate when you renewed the registration, instead of new plates, and the registrations expired at different times, as do the state safety inspection stickers. But that changed, too, because they said people were stealing those little stickers.

And the latest changes took place in September of last year (2011). So now, they are supposed to issue new metal plates when yours are 7 years old (they don't always do it, though, but they're supposed to:laughing. Now the State Safety Inspection sticker goes on the inside lower left corner of your windshield and the registration sticker just above it.

We have a 2001 Ford Ranger pickup and a 2002 Ford Crown Victoria. It cost me $64.25 to renew the registration on each of them last month

The Crown Vic also got a new state safety inspection sticker last month, but the Ranger won't get a new one until October. Each one costs $39.75.

And I have a little single axle utility trailer, 2000 pound GVW, and annual registration cost me $57.50 this year (and Texas still uses a little sticker to put on the license plate for trailers).

 

[powerpace]

Oregon issues the stickers to be applied to the plates. In the month the vehicle is registered, good for two years. Plates stay with the vehicle forever unless new plates or vanity plates are requested.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

In PA, you keep the same plates for 5 years (IIRC) and get the annual stickers.

We have had the same plates for a lot longer than that...

 

[JDgreen227]

We have had the same plates for a lot longer than that...

Our summer driver, a '93 Olds Cutlass Supreme ragtop, still has the same plate it was registered with back in '97 !!!!

 

[RoyJackson]

We have had the same plates for a lot longer than that...

I might be wrong on that 5 years time...never paid much attention, to tell the truth.

 

[sldva00]

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The Crown Vic also got a new state safety inspection sticker last month, but the Ranger won't get a new one until October. Each one costs $39.75...

You must live in an emissions testing county. In the RGV state inspections are $13.50 last time I went. My truck's expired yesterday, hope it didn't go up too much when I go tomorrow.

 

[Combustix]

We get the little sticker once a year then new plates every 5 in WA.
JPM1 is the Maine thing for real, sounds like it's to good to be true.

 

[rsewill]

I just renewed my '03 Jetta. $43.50 for a sticker. We get new plates in Minnesota every seven years. It used to be the plates were permanent with a new sticker but a number of years ago they changed that to benefit 3M (a MN based corp) which makes a coating used on the plate. It's known as the 3M tax.

 

[JDgreen227]

For what most of us pay for vehicle registration, we deserve two new metal plates every year....and that would also provide jobs for the prisoners who used to make our license plates.

 

[deerseeker001]

in Wisconsin we get stickers every year.