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First thing I do when buying a vehicle, new or used, is take off the ugly license plate frame that advertises the dealership. I’m glad I don’t live in other states where it seems more trendy to put an actual ~~badge~~ sticker from the dealership onto the paint of your car. I see those for Carmax and can’t understand how anyone is fine with that unless they got a discount on the car in doing so.
"The only dealer that tells you to FUCK OFF!"
For those that don’t get the reference.
They do the same with stickers here, spelling out entire phrases on the trunk, not just the frame license plate
You can tell them to remove it when they sell it to you but often times they try to get out of doing that, lack of tools or some bs.
Long story short, it’s why I own a plastic razor scraper
Unstickered about 2 dozen cars so far for people I know, ain’t much, but better than driving around with ads on your car.
Sticker…I had a brainfart when I said “badge” and meant stickers. I’ve seen the name of the dealership and even the address of the dealership written out as a full sticker put directly onto the paint.
I see it every once in a while when you see an out of state vehicle here or if I go to another state. It’s never been something that caught on here except for Carmax and one of those online sellers. But it always looks so tacky and I have no idea how people are okay with that. A license frame is bad enough but at least it’s held on with screws and not jeopardizing the integrity of the paint…
The last car I purchased had the dealership plates + stickers on the trunk and window, I told the dealership that I love the car and everything about it but I'm not willing to purchase a vehicle at that price while it has advertisements on it unless the cost gets lowered by about 3 Grand. They fought it a little , but when they realized that I was firm on it they ultimately decided that they would remove the logo on it to make the sale.
That being said never let them con you into saying well you can remove the logo yourself, cuz if you end up screwing up taking those logos off(some of those stickers are REALLY on there) you're out the cost where if they screw up taking that logo off you can always walk away or they can fix their screw up
Just make sure that you are indeed willing to walk away if it's not something they budge on, cuz it is definitely possible that they will just say well then don't buy the vehicle
Just tell them to remove it. It's vandalism technically.
If they do it after you pay for the car, sure. Before you give them any money, it's their car to do as they see fit.
Then they're selling you an incorrect product.
That's for me, the buyer to decide. A pickup truck is also the incorrect product for me, because I don't want one. Someone else may not want a black car. We don't want stickers or badging on our cars. Others may want a black pickup truck and doesn't really care if it has a sticker on the back for whatever reason. All that is totally fine - it's our choice to buy something or not.
But it's certainly not vandalism for the dealer to do that to their own car any more than it is for me to put an "I love puppies" bumper sticker on my car and then sell it a week later.
Explain to me, how you vandalize property you own.
The car dealers are the ones putting them on the cars not the owners.
I would've thought they install licence plate frames when they put the cars out on display, though I do find the idea of dealerships running around randomly mounting them to other people's cars amusing.
That is, how it works. At worst they put a plate frame on just before they sell it to you because you didn't bring one to the dealership.
Yes. They own the vehicle.
You are free to do whatever you want when you finish the transaction. Which typically is actually a few days later after the bank clears it. Or you can ask for them to take it off. Dealerships just let it go early because they rarely run into issues closing the finance. And NOBODY ever brings their own plate holder. But yeah, "vandalism" 🙄
Imagine buying a painting and they srpay paint a red X on it before handing it to you.
Again, I wouldn't buy it. Not that hard. See how that affected me?
But the reality is it's more like they put an easy to remove sticker on the back that takes 1 minute to remove. Or I ask them to remove it which they always do.
I was going to remove mine, but I live in Silicon Valley and it's a broken frame from a failed startup (Beepi) I bought the car from, so I feel like it kinda adds some Silicon Valley character to the car. LOL
It's also screwed on using one-way screws so I'll have to figure out how to remove those.
The dealership frame ended up causing an annoying rattle on mine whenever the car hit a bump. Having it on there meant the license plate was less secure and it would shake in response to the slightest disturbance. Even closing a door would cause an audible rattle from the rear.
Needless to say I've also removed the frame from mine.
That’s funny because mine did the opposite. Without the frame, mine has been rattling. I kept wondering where that sound came from and then one day I played with the license plate and realized it wasn’t tightened fully. Well, it is, but there’s a gap that is causing it to move.
So while I haven’t put the dealership one back on, I actually threw it away, I’m going to have to get some frame for the first time to fix this annoying sound. I usually just go without any frame for my license plate.
Might be able to cushion it with some automotive exterior foam tape. Definitely an inexpensive solution.
As it is, the convention that vehicles already sport their manufacturer's branding plastered on both the front and back is already obnoxious.
Public roads cannot be traversed without seeing dozens, hundreds or thousands of instances of $CAR_BRAND.
I suppose that makes me a proponent of debranding, wherein company logos and emblems are removed.
I think in the UK legally you have to have the manufacturer of the registration plate on it to combat fraud / cloning. But it's tiny text you can only see close up
If it’s on the registration plate (what we in the States call a license plate), then that’s not so bad since it’s not directly on the car itself.