My neighbor across the street has illegal tint on his white Cougar and it looks really good on his car, I know that it would be sweet on mine. Furthermore, no one ever gives him a hard time about it, and his is limo black tint.
The problem is that I don't live at home 8 months a year. The town where I go to college is a pretty small place and late last year the local police needed some extra cash, so they started writing tickets for no front license plate and window tint to the locals. They were just enforcing the laws already on the books, but the locals complained that they shouldn't be getting fined if the college students who were driving around with no front plate and windows too darkly tinted weren't.
So the police announced that they would be randomly checking window tint for compliance and also checking for front plate compliance on our cars. Either infraction is a $100 ticket, and in the case of tint, they issue a fix-it ticket that requires you to have it removed and then prove to the court that it has been done. If you don't remove it and appear in court to prove you did so, they issue you a non-compliance violation that is another $100. If you don't have a front plate mounted on the outside of the front of the vehicle, you have to obtain one and mount it. If the plates on your car are an older style that they no longer mint, you have to purchase new plates, which is not cheap.
I hate the front plate because it ruins the looks of certain cars, it gets bumped into and dented easily, it sticks out and is easy to rip off and thereby put holes in your bumper, etc. It is our law though, and although the law states you must have a front plate mounted on the outside front of the vehicle, preferably on the bumper, many people get away with placing it inside the car on the passenger side dash area. This is a stupid practice. If you get into an accident, especially one that deploys the airbags, that plate is now a 60 mph 10 inch wide razor blade flying at the neck and or head of whoever is unlucky enough to be sitting in the passenger's seat. If you're lucky no one is sitting there and it only slices up your seat, if you're unlucky it kills your passenger.
That fact alone is enough to get me to place the plate outside my vehicle.