Of course, brilliant - smart move.

I can't help but think about when I was living in Mexico and would see
transit cops in small and large towns walking around with a stack of
license plates and a pliers and screwdriver in their back pocket.
Instead of citing you for a parking infraction they would just remove
your plates altogether, forcing you to come looking for them.

Needless to say, like you we figured out how to make it extra hard for
them to remove them, filling down the threads that bolted the plate on..

-john

On 7/18/15 10:28 AM, vw_van_fan_Mark wrote:
> I prepared secure plate hardware for this before leaving home. This
> allowed me to lock the rear plate access door closed and also attached
> both plates with 4 Allen bolts each. Then I put a gob of glue in the
> Allen heads to make it tough to take them out even with the right wrench.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> John Goubeaux wrote:
>> Nice Mark, Thanks !
>>
>> The part about the California license plates made me laugh ... :)
>> I recently had a friend ship her car ( with CA plates ) back to Zurich.
>> She was so proud to have CA plates ( a big status symbol in EuroLand )
>> on her car.
>> I warned her to remove them BUT she did not listen and sure enough they
>> were stolen in short time.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing more stories.
>>
>> -john
>>
>> n 7/18/15 7:13 AM, mark drillock wrote:
>>> We shipped our Westy over and camped in 10 countries. We covered about
>>> 6,000 miles in 2 months, mostly on secondary roads and smaller. We
>>> stayed at public and private campgrounds and often took trains or buses
>>> from them into the cities for tourist activities. The camping was easy
>>> and the people were friendly. Our Calif plates stood out and people
>>> gawked at them everywhere we went, at times like we were in a UFO. I
>>> can't tell you how many times someone saw the front plate and then went
>>> to the back to see if it matched, then scratching their heads.