Anti-Theft Locking License Plate Fasteners, which are best?

[Ages]

What anti-theft locking license plate fasteners are best. I have a disability plate, they tend to steal them here.

 

[Gwolf]

It is not exactly an anti-theft fastener, but you could just put the plate on with 1/4 inch hex screws, and instead of using Locktite, use a dab of JB Weld. You will have to cut them off with a side grinder or Dremel tool to put on a new plate, but the people stealing the plates don't usually walk around with side grinders in their pockets.

 

[racoon]

Visit your local hardware store. There are a variety of nuts and bolts designs that require a special tool to tighten or remove them.

Of course nothing is perfect, and a couple of narrow blade vice grips will defeat pretty much anything.

A few Google searches and I found a couple of companies that have "quick release" license plate mounts for motorcycles.
Basically there's a bracket you mount to the bike, and the license plate is mounted onto the bracket using quick release bolts... basically turn and they come off.
So you mount your plate, ride, and when you park at your destination you remove the plate and store in a locked luggage compartment, or stuff it in your backpack and take it with you.

 

[Gwolf]

Some ideas for you - definitely cheaper and easier than buying replacement tags.

I am not sure you will be able to get to the back side of your fender as easy as I can with the F3S rear fender, where I only need to take out 2 bolts and the whole fender pivots up away from the tire. It might not be practical to put bolts all the way through to the inside of the fender.

Here are some other solutions you might consider:

https://losspreventionfasteners.ca/tamperproof-security-bolts/

https://www.amazon.com/Small-Lockable-Storage-Box-Motorcycles/dp/B00XD6QHJ6/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1NLIRQ2DDELFA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lxFpYSxXdSC9CXfTwsonCo41Xln0_bEdSvukLpU_UD2UTiDgxQsCLMlBobI8Mzcs4btevKptJJLs32BoK-zA724IV7hPUMIAp4TrpLVFR58XNOElItMGGFC1-YJoa1O6IXdMNIAmXP4uxAYqXXM2RI3U8xydpXN2IhX3ILIQ3g1ZQgS31IFIBK6g4kWvBgnth0skti63kwL2iqFoj6YOdc99d6XqYdvMxpXwJ1XyK-OV-rxSMTWFl30hWJ4ZLeaQlYLpcsbOrjMHnstxVy8qkkbjx5u3Bb5yu7IJIt82HUnmYyDG9Bq9rWjNGv7Ht7tpUHAyfu4K2r7Qx6QAjmqi-D0v-EyG4OKOgHHF_ke1OjpWJdw_YxGDJ3_Oq03GqUcQzLnMUh-pYsplRrKTd5fSQLwrSTxrwlCIPqtiwtm88JVVUG3wjyNs_Baze_61FWaY.RXu5SFU159wHM1JzySRpUTN4z9zXG6BhVn_JpQs5Hv4&dib_tag=se&keywords=Motorcycle+behind+tag+lockable+documents+box&qid=1741295267&sprefix=motorcycle+behind+tag+lockable+documents+box,aps,119&sr=8-2


https://www.amazon.com/Button-Security-Machine-Stainless-Resistant/dp/B00VVIKXIE?th=1

https://www.amazon.com/Lockable-Motorcycle-license-storage-Resistant/dp/B010RJC9IY

 

[TroubledJuan]

Is License plate theft an issue? I'm just curious, after 25yrs of motorcycle touring (47 states and most of Canada) I've never experienced this

 

[Gwolf]

Is License plate theft an issue? I'm just curious, after 25yrs of motorcycle touring (47 states and most of Canada) I've never experienced this

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Over 60 years riding and I never had one stolen either. Maybe it is because he has a handicapped tag.
It does seem strange that somebody would put a stolen tag on their motorcycle when there is probably a BOLO out on it.

 

[Cobranut]

Check out KJMagnetics.com
They have a huge assortment of magnets, many with studs, which could attach to the plate and bracket.
When you park, just pull the plate off and toss it in the frunk.

 

[Dakotaz]

If he parks in a handicap spot the plate needs to be with the vehicle. If not he gets a ticket.

 

[2dogs]

Pop rivet your plate to the license plate bracket.

 

[Ages]

Is License plate theft an issue? I'm just curious, after 25yrs of motorcycle touring (47 states and most of Canada) I've never experienced this

I live in El Paso, Tx, they steal them here.

 

[Ages]

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Over 60 years riding and I never had one stolen either. Maybe it is because he has a handicapped tag.
It does seem strange that somebody would put a stolen tag on their motorcycle when there is probably a BOLO out on it.

They steal the plates in order to get the registration stickers off them and use them on the plates they use.

 

[Jackhartjr]

In North Carolina, the stickers destroy themselves when you try to take them off!

 

[Bfromla]

In North Carolina, the stickers destroy themselves when you try to take them off!

Same in LoUiSiAna. If the vehicle last long enough to renew. Generally just alcohol clean previous & apply new. *Generally *. Cross threading bolts & or good mixture of whatever can find, prevents simple use of any one tool. & those lil reflective “buttons “ with wing nuts from dealers, simply used as decoration on the spare holes, maybe to assist holding a frame.

 

[Gwolf]

They steal the plates in order to get the registration stickers off them and use them on the plates they use.

OK, that makes sense. They don't use the tags at all, just the stickers. The sticker do have a serial number on them, but the numbers are tiny, and nobody could read them from 5 feet away. The state may have to change the way they are doing the tags.

 

[Cobranut]

OK, that makes sense. They don't use the tags at all, just the stickers. The sticker do have a serial number on them, but the numbers are tiny, and nobody could read them from 5 feet away. The state may have to change the way they are doing the tags.

Those sticker numbers don't get checked until you get pulled over.

 

[Peter Aawen]

OK, that makes sense. They don't use the tags at all, just the stickers. The sticker do have a serial number on them, but the numbers are tiny, and nobody could read them from 5 feet away. The state may have to change the way they are doing the tags.

Those sticker numbers don't get checked until you get pulled over.

Here in Oz, we don't have any annual registration stickers anymore at all!!

The up-to-date payment of your annual registration fee & insurance etc is all linked to the rego plate/tag of each vehicle, and most Police Cars (& I believe many Parking Inspectors, too) can & do look up your plate number to check that you've paid this years fee &/or that the rego plate is being displayed on the correct vehicle - in many cases, the Police Car's on-board scanners do that automatically, immediately highlighting your car if the rego/ins fees aren't paid & up-to-date, so you'll usually get instant personal attention for that, as well as for speeding! Many of our major roads have permanently installed & on-line cameras doing the same thing, amongst other stuff (like making sure the driver is not touching a mobile phone) and checking every vehicle as it passes, so you won't get away with driving unregistered/uninsured for too long. But we still have ID cards and hanging labels for Disability Parking Permits, which must be displayed whenever parked in a Disability Parking Bay.

 

[Gwolf]

I was thinking more like, do away with the stickers completely, and go back to getting a new tag every year or two. In Oz the registrations must be controlled by the state, which just needs a vote of your law makers to change something. Here we have 50 states and each state has their own way of doing things. To get anything changed nationally, there would need to be 50 states to approve some way of doing the registrations and tags. That will never happen. We used to get a new tag every year.

Or since now there are millions more people and vehicles, just get a new tag without a sticker for each vehicle, and it is valid for that vehicle only, as long as the fee is paid every year to keep it current. That would not be much different from what Florida has now. The counties sell the tags and do the registrations. The county tax collector sends out a notice one month before the tag expires. You pay online or by snail mail and they send you a new sticker. If you don't pay in time, your tag and registration gets cancelled and the vehicle is unlawful to drive on public roads. Why do the states even need the stickers on tags at all, since we now have a data base in each of the state capitols that keeps up with which tag numbers go to which vehicle and if the registration is current. The law enforcement agencies can access and run tag numbers from their patrol cars. The stickers just make their jobs more complicated. There is also a way to cross check if a tag is valid from one state to another. We have huge computer data bases in every state, put them to use and get rid of the stickers. The tags would be good for as long as the fees are paid and the tag is readable. I have some tags on some of my equipment trailers that have been on the trailer for 5 years or more, and they just have 5 sets of stickers, stuck one on top of the previous one. I never try to take off the old stickers, because they rip apart and leave a sticky mess to clean up.. I just stick another one on top. The tags have been the same, just the stickers get changed. Why do we even need the stickers? All they are doing is making it more of a problem to determine if the tag is valid.

 

[Peter Aawen]

Yeah, in Oz, it's each State/Territory that controls the rego plates & registration/insurance etc for the entire State/Territory, not the Local Government (we tend to call them Councils, and here, they aren't allowed to run 'Police Forces' or impose taxes - just 'rates' for services like local street maintenance, garbage collection, sewer, etc), but we don't have quite so many States as you lot do, and ours have managed to agree between themselves to sharing access to each other's data-bases. So while it took a bit of a while to get to this stage, they all did eventually agree to get rid of the need for yearly stickers &/or re-issuing plates etc - it's all in their data-bases!

Mind you, in the couple of years during which the transition occurred in each State/Territory in turn, it was a bit of a pain for those of us who regularly travelled interstate, especially if we originated in one of the first States/Territories to get rid of the Stickers - the number of times I got stopped by the Cops while travelling interstate simply because they couldn't see a valid sticker rapidly became very much NOT Funny; but at least I was aware of the chance, so I always carried a paper copy of all my current rego & insurance details (still do! ) and I didn't ever get held for long over it - others weren't quite so lucky!!

Still, it only took a couple of years before everyone/all the States & Territories were working from the same page; and these days, sharing of that info is almost seamless - you can get pinged for driving an unregistered/uninsured vehicle from any State on the roads in any other State by any Police Car, or if you're on major roads or Highways, the cameras will get you even without you getting pulled over for it, at least initially!! However, if you move house/residency across States/Territories, you still hafta change your license and residency details, and while those of us with more than just a standard 'car license' can get what's called a 'National Driver's License', if we move from saaay, New South Wales to South Oz (as I did a while back) then we still hafta front up to surrender and change our NSW issued 'National Heavy Vehicle Driver's License' to a South Oz issued 'National Heavy Vehicle Driver's License'!!

 

[Gwolf]

Sounds like a good plan, but we can't even get rid of Daylight Saving Time.
Government makes my brain hurt!

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Meanwhile, back on the ranch... If you used the security fasteners or welded your tag onto the scooter, wouldn't the thieves just peel the stickers off in the parking lot and leave the tag?

 

[2dogs]

They steal the plates in order to get the registration stickers off them and use them on the plates they use.

To prevent that, cross hatch your sticker with a razor blade so that if they try to remove it, it comes off in little pieces. Also, don't allow your stickers to build up, one on top of the other. Those are the easiest to remove. Last I heard, in my State, DMV would replace a stolen sticker at no charge.