Policia Vial

When we drove to Zihua a number of years ago, I made a duplicate license plate for our SUV by photographing the rear plate which had the tag on it (along with some assorted dead bugs). Then I had the photo enlarged and cropped to the correct size and fitted it into a license plate holder which had a clear plastic protective sheet and had that for my back up plate.

I also installed special screws on my regular license plate which required a key (much like an Allen Key) to remove the plate. However, after watching the police in Zihua use a crowbar to remove another person’s plate along with a huge chunk of their bumper, I quickly swapped out the special keyed screws to easily removable and more fragile plastic screws.

Fortunately for us we didn’t have to use the fake plate.

Roberto!