Testing Illegal License Plate Covers

[@gregtennyson]

First, they taught us how to steal a Kia, now they’re teaching us how to get it back to the shop without catching any heat. Next episode: how to re-VIN a car

[@jonokiller]

How to get your car past smog

[@karelpgbr]

I've re-VIN'd a Ducati frame before, it wasn't for nefarious reasons, but to save money, because it would prevent us from needing to re-register it and get a new plate. Gjuy had a precise stamp-gun thing that he could give the order of the letters, symbols and numbers, and it would stamp in the new vin, like new. kept us the plate and the money, destroyed the old frame just in case some government official does some poking around and realises that our generation of Ducati SuperSport 600 (1994) isn't supposed to have frame-braces at the steering-head.

[@mrvwbug4423]

@@karelpgbr so guessing you frame swapped a crashed bike to fix it? Hence a legit reason to re-vin

[@Kenny_2283]

@@jonokillergotta go to those younger vin guys. Most old heads rather go by the book in my experience

[@seanbrewer1232]

When they're really hurting for content: "We tested The cheapest and most expensive garrotes!"

[@scottelundgren]

The genius of the leaf plate is the business model. Every time you drop the leaf to avoid the ticket, you’ll need to speed $67 to buy more leaves again

[@ignaciolillorazeto45]

Unless You hook it with some nylon wire. That way you can retrieve it later on

[@Mr.DISRESPECT]

@@ignaciolillorazeto45 but that is kinda suspicious if you get stopped by the cops cuz they will see the nylon wire that's hanging lol

[@dfuma213]

Actually they allow you to buy 5 leaves for 20$

[@DJSekuHusky]

@@dfuma213 Or you could just make your own for that much. A slim electromagnet is $5-20, piggyback the voltage off the tag light, 3M the magnet to the back of the plate, then get some real leaves and superglue some thin metal to them, like broken-off bits of razor blades. All you have to do is turn off your running lights and the leaf (leaves) fall away when the electromagnet loses current.

[@Jsgcevzhvd]

​@DJSekuHusky you're genius

[@Alloy211]

A few weeks ago I was behind a Camaro with a plate that read "WILL RUN". About a week and a half later there was a local news story about the same guy running from the police. Although an absolute idiot, he was true to his word.

[@AndrewTheRadarMan]

I wonder what justification the Camaro owner had to say when applying for that plate at the DMV. "well uhhh, you see I like running marathons. I participate in 5Ks"

[@nhooj8882]

@@AndrewTheRadarMan Fake plate, obviously. You wouldn't run with your real plate on, let alone if it were so easy to remember. It's definitely going to get you pulled over immediately, but the point is running from cops, not through red lights.

[@omgvague]

@@AndrewTheRadarMan They buy custom plates like that to taunt. They aren't legal plates.

[@Berm_Blaster]

Props to that guy. Someone staying true to their word is rare

[@oxide7]

Yeah he ended up running from cops, hitting an SUV, got caught. Minor charges were dismissed but the felony stuff is still on going.

[@dakotaclark2270]

The traffic cam picture of Jerry and the ski mask/license plate needs to be the next doughnut t-shirt

[@josejosefino7361]

Im 100% sure the only reason the PD agreed to close a road for Donut, is so that they do a control experiment on their cameras.

[@4esv]

The leaf one is even better when you think about it for a min and realize you could just glue paperclips to real leaves so youre not driving around with a bright green leaf in the middle of fall.

[@destinhook3826]

Genius

[@MaxC_1]

It's insanely simple. Grab a electromagnet pad for like 5$, wire it up and make it button activated. Grab some fall leaves and glue some piece of metal to the back and done, 10$ and it holds up and doesn't even look as obvious

[@Jordan-yb7zp]

@@MaxC_1 why didnt i think of that when i saw that little gimmick? thats freaking genius. paperclips are super cheap, and leaves are everywhere, also leaves aare free!!

[@kelbinhow]

Exactly, since the electromagnet is "permanent" and it's actually the only thing you need to act as a magnet, whatever you put on the front of the plate only need to be a small metal, to which a paperclip could easily do the work and not be as expensive

[@JumpMasterJef]

LET HIM COOK

[@JC_500]

Donut is the only channel that can make an entertaining video about license plate covers 🍩

[@ashhillmodels3801]

Weeeeell...there was a Mythbusters episode about that once...

[@douglasboyle6544]

Also pretty much the only channel to involve cops in a video I'll still watch.

[@trm4life]

Mythbusters already did this...

[@雪狐-c7k]

*about committing crime

[@xxdesertstorm]

by stealing content hmmmmmm ok buds keep clowning life

[@Ween3]

Seeing Jerry get heated in a donut video was not on my 2024 bingo card.

[@lucasokeefe7935]

He was right though, even if the guy was a cop. Don't screw with other peoples stuff!!

[@seancca]

@@lucasokeefe7935 He is not even a cop, he is a journalist

[@ry-land-]

@@lucasokeefe7935he ain’t even a cop. Bro has the badge in the windshield that just SAYS NYPD so people think he has any business in what is all definition by law, vandalizing their vehicles.

[@bleebleblahble8833]

Jerry saying he’s gonna knock out Gersh Kuntzman 🤣💀 Also what a perfect name for that dude.

[@Finnjaymakes]

Day 3 of asking donut to do a video on the Mercedes amg gt3

[@sharrpshooter1]

The "we committed a crime" legit got me that was amazing, did not expect that since its not your guys style and thats what made it so much better

[@hockeyguy820]

A bit dramatic. A traffic infraction is not a crime.

[@DENTALplan2002]

And they had police holding back traffic. You don't call stunt drivers criminals because they did an illegal move on a barricaded street for a movie

[@RatzBuddie]

Donut lads growing big. "LAPD-assisted" testing is quite a milestone, congrats fellas

[@mas13ish1]

I love how you got a retired cop and the actual cops involved with this test! That is pretty cool! Another fantastic video.

[@UberLummox]

And a cop w/a sense of humor was very refreshing.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Donut Media probably made a donation to the police department's favorite charity: Not the police retirement fund but more likely a local charity for disabled veterans, preventing child abuse, etc. etc....

[@The_Razielim]

@@UberLummox I think they had him before as a guest on an episode on their Real Mechanic Stuff channel, for a "Real Highway Patrol Officers React"

[@Tendies7645]

What do you mean running with red light was staged/lolll

[@4RILDIGITAL]

Never expected the leaf cover to win. Intriguing to see how well some of these obscure devices work... or don't.

[@ExUSSailor]

New Hampshire has, hands down, the BEST license plate motto around, "Live Free, or, Die".

[@JohannesDahl42]

It seems that your second comma changes the meaning somewhat, changing the "or" into "AKA".

[@dieubermensch]

Sounds very incel to me

[@nwerd7584]

too bad they have plenty of laws and codes that thwart the original idea from that original court room.

[@fire_tower]

​@@dieubermenschEnjoy paying taxes on British tea you Redcoat.

[@_eighty8]

​@@JohannesDahl42 yeah there are no commas in the motto

[@SomeoneSmarter]

That magnetic leaf thing has to be one of the best innovations of the century.

[@МихаилНикульшин-ж5е]

Missed some variations: - putting plate upside down or wrong side (oh my friend prank) - using tape to change some letters - folding with cable (e.g. motorcycle but going down instead of up) - swapping plates machines - fake plate slide above real back and forth - most tricky one - find your car twin and copy plates, license (with your photo of course), registration and insurance from it

[@BogeyTheBear]

@@МихаилНикульшин-ж5еThe caveat with that last one (the full-fledged identity theft one) is the sword cuts both ways: Soon as the other guy finds out what you're doing, all he needs to do is copy all _your_ info instead!

[@ThugMuffin10]

@@МихаилНикульшин-ж5е using tape to change letters is a horrible idea when they try to pulll the car up and it doesnt show

[@mydinosaurz5479]

Feels more illegal watching this video this early

[@pranavsangam7548]

Yes

[@whocreek]

Fax

[@real_gang703]

Fr

[@aiskont]

yes

[@DreamcastSoupYT]

feels more illegal when donut changes the videos thumbnail a million times 😂

[@joebo9378]

I’ve seen somewhere cover their entire car in license plates. Literally everything. Those cameras were popping off like it was a rock concert.

[@bwofficial1776]

A guy at my university had a crappy Honda with an entire fender made out of license plates. He did a really good job of shaping it, but his Honda was scraping on the ground and sounded like a small airplane so I guess he was flat broke and had to make do with what he had.

[@turbo_marc]

they're only illegal if you get caught

[@phillipmaciejewski9872]

no cops, no stops

[@1rstTry]

Hello Mr. Epstein

[@GamerCheatsForAll]

False, still illegal.

[@brq44]

@@GamerCheatsForAll🤓

[@sabahlarakadar420]

real

[@MrRabb1ts]

THE PHOTO BLOCKER DOES WORK, YOU NEED TO ADD MULTIPLE COATS. I used this in denver CO all the time for the stop lights that take your picture when stopping after the line... however you have to use a good amount on your plates, at least 3 coats. Spray on a coat, wait 20 minutes, spray another, wait some more then spray another coat and let it cure for an hour. Then install and you will visibly see the change in any flash camera. Also, do note that Camera photo lights are much brighter than phone or regular camera flash so the extra coating will white out the plate complete. I have tested this with myself and two other friends who noticed the results too. I used a simpkle Canon A400 digital camera with flash for testing at the time and it works! The plate was all whited out. I would still buy that product today in 2024 however USE MULTIPLE COATS!

[@Onewheelordeal]

Always thought these did the opposite of their intended function cuz anyone who sees you have one assumes you're up to no good

[@rebrummitt]

100% factual

[@1nicube]

but you get free toll 🤷‍♂️

[@pawelzielinski1398]

@@1nicube this may be not worth the effort and the risk. One significant traffic ticket exceeds my monthly toll several times. If you pay toll in excess of $200 per month then it may be worth the risk.

[@cwill2127]

@@1nicubeand get hit with a more expensive fine after?

[@1nicube]

@@cwill2127 why? a police wont stop you for having a leaf on your plate 🤔

[@ImTanzeey]

Fun fact! In Ontario Canada they issued a new blue license plate that was basically invisible at night, and once they realized they stopped issuing them. But they never recalled the ones that are issued, guess who still has one 😎

[@schizophrenicgaming365]

Too bad they wont allow people to transfer them between cars :(

[@ImTanzeey]

@@schizophrenicgaming365they let me last year 🤐

[@andrisjakubovs5297]

Bee Gees "Stayin Alive" playing

[@outlawgmr]

They also signed a non disclosure agreement with 3M about it which is pretty fishy

[@jackryan4313]

@@outlawgmroh, word? Weird

[@keksiman7203]

In finland we have this thing called snow. Not only does it cover the licence plates but also the cameras and speed signs and you can use the "I didn't see the speed sign" as an excuse and it usually works if you don't get caught again

[@BatCaveOz]

That doesn't work in Canada. (We also have snow)

[@rustythefoxcoon5143]

But what about YOUR SUMMER CAR? Yes someone had to bring it up. Love that place, it’s just like my home but in Finish. Say hello to Satan for me. Feel free to visit the US someday, check Maine out. Metal, speeding, and alcohol all here. Oh weed and guns oddly too. Hope you been well over there.

[@dougerrohmer]

@@BatCaveOz Works in Northern BC, unless you're doing something evil. EVERYBODY is snow covered in the winter, and mud covered in the spring.

[@onesadtech]

Where I live, in Atlantic Canada, you can get a fine for not clearing the snow off your plate. Never heard of it actually happen, but it is the law.

[@binatitagain]

I was told that speeding is strictly controlled in most Scandanavian countries and that they are loaded with speed trap cameras. If you go even 5km over the limit, you will get fined and possibly lose your license for going 20km/hr over. Is that true? (A Norwegian told me this). I'm also Canadian. Had snow cover my plate in the back a few times (certain provinces require plates in the front and back) but it never was an issue. (It's technically illegal and you can be fined but you would probably get a warning). I wish they were covered when I got caught by camera going 70km/hr in a 50km/hr zone!lol

[@octaviolopez9966]

The cop cracking up at 15:35 is priceless!!!

[@babak4952]

The amount of mass surveillance people are okay w is terrifying

[@h-linetv1082]

The first thing I did when I bought my car was remove that dealer bracket. I think they look stupid, and why give them free advertising? I see them on so many plates. 😂

[@matute33]

I just bought a 2010 Audi Q5 and it still had the licence plate that said Q5. Looks terrible, I took it off. Its like saying "HeLlO mY NaMe Is Q5"

[@theMelvinShow]

most people just dont care and I can't blame them

[@bwofficial1776]

I only kept mine on to hold down the paper temp tag. Once my real plate came in, I chucked that frame in the garbage. The dealer sticker came off as soon as I got home from the dealership. If it was a tiny sticker I may have let it slide but my dealer's sticker is black rubber and almost the size of the car's nameplate.

[@ProtoV33MK1]

I did that with Carmax before I even left the lot. Asked to use the wrench they put it on with for a second, and just returned it on the counter with their stupid dummy plate and frames. The sticker came off as soon as I got home and my bottle of goo gone made quick work of it. No free advertising, only stickers that go on my car are the furry stickers *I* put on.

[@noob.168]

I throw the original dealer frame back on when I get rid of the car.

[@willyd-adv]

What's funny is here in New Zealand they released new black plates with white or silver letters about 6 months ago. They messed up making them so the whole plate was SUPER reflective and even driving behind one in daylight you can't read them. I have them on all my cars and bikes 😂

[@imperfectly-balanced8861]

Hahah man I miss NZ plates (in Aus now) I had a dozen or so old, deregd plates that I collected through work and used a black Sharpie/marker to change the letters, then just stuck them over my actual plates (on motorbikes) I also owned the plate II1I1I or 11I1I1 (can't for the life of me remember which orientation it was lol) for several years, those plates are the best for doing runners/on bikes. Worth a pretty penny nowadays too

[@binatitagain]

Haha! Check out the ones that they released in Ontario, Canada!😆 (I think it was around 2020-2022ish?) They were a bright reflective blue with reflective white lettering. Not only were they hard to read and blinded people when lights reflected on them (the popos had trouble reading the plates at night), they also started peeling within a few months! I'm pretty sure the province switched back to the old white plates with blue lettering. They were God awful looking. I had trouble reading them on a rainy day so you can imagine what they looked like at night with glare.

[@MiriaJiyuu]

​@@binatitagainWe did switch back, plates from somewhere around CR onwards are the old style. Drivers were also told to get them replaced for free. There's still a ton on the road, but a low percentage compared to total vehicles.

[@netiary9468]

Donut is slowly turning more and more criminal

[@macbook802]

Donut is literally working with law enforcement

[@siraj8903]

i think i like it that way

[@Heroo01]

it's what people watch

[@thedude3005]

9:19 idk who their editor is but they sure love jerma, this is my second time seeing him in a donut video

[@Doodyninja]

im so glad someone else noticed

[@steves264]

😂 The cop is on patrol in the Tiny Red Truck! Good Stuff

[@Narpas]

You can tell that the Draft Kings ad read was tightly controlled by the advertiser because no one stumbled into the read to say, "what the fuck is a S-P-D-F-X bet?"

[@animality102]

First ad i didnt watch from them lol

[@taj1994]

@@animality102 I skip any sponsor spot for any of these sports betting apps. Doesn't matter who it's from

[@CRneu]

draft kings sucks. I lose respect for anyone I see running ads for them. it sucks seeing donut going for em.

[@Tahngarthor]

im surprised they were able to monetize this video at all, since it speficially features committing an illegal act....

[@taj1994]

@@Tahngarthor With explicit police permission though. They had traffic blocked for them Plus, video sponsors are different from KZbin monetization

[@ethanacton408]

I would love to hear the phone call of how they convinced the local PD to block traffic and run a red light.

[@dotar9586]

"We're trying to show people the best illegal plate cover to get. You know, for SCIENCE!"

[@Clay3613]

It's LA, they block traffic all the time for movies.

[@OfficialSamuelC]

$$$$

[@BogeyTheBear]

@@Clay3613"Here's our production license # and the permit application..."

[@demzo]

Jerry getting triggered was the best thing ever lol. Great episode guys.

[@jamesdavid6451]

Packing my plates with snow during a storm so I can drift in plain sight is one of the great pleasures in life

[@MmmHuggles]

If up north, mud in summer and snow in winter. Both can be applied with a little redneck tug of war (rope between tow hooks/tow balls). In some areas in the fall, leaves applied with something a little sticky but not too sticky would work. Not sure about spring. Where I live it's mud 90% of the year with a little slush or dry dirt the other 10%.

[@rovhalt6650]

9:43 it might help if you don't take the photo at an angle. It only works if the light reflects back at the source.

[@russellhoude5744]

Speed cameras are at angles, it doesn't make much sense to test a product meant to defeat speed cameras in unrealistic situations.

[@JustaPersonTryinToHuman365]

I appreciate the Tom Scott reference while spraying the plate.

[@Iambestforreal]

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[@pcthayer]

When we drove the 1950s and 1960s cars, with the gas cap was behind the license plate, we just took the spring out and when you took off quickly, the license plate would flop down so you couldn't read it.....bring back the good ole days. 🙂

[@oshwaflz]

"took off quickly" 30 maybe 40 mph

[@pcthayer]

@@oshwaflzI won't say exactly, but stop light to stop light races were not out of the ordinary back in those days.

[@mexicanspec]

Young people think old cars were slow and bulky. They missed out on all the good cars.@@pcthayer

[@pcthayer]

@@mexicanspecBack in the 1960's my Buick had 325hp 445 foot pounds of torque, which may be slow against todays muscle cars, but it was pretty quick against some of the other 1960s cars. Fun times back then, plus the police didn't have radar or speed cameras either. 🙂

[@mexicanspec]

That was enough to get it moving. Nobody needs 700 HP in a street car.@@pcthayer

[@MlordSlav]

in the uk the lettering on plates is very uniform and its quite common for youngsters to use strips of either matching yellow white or black tape to change letters n numbers around so speed cameras/police cant get a positive id on the car

[@Vits2001]

​@@ClinicalDecisionYikesYT Hahaha so funny, wtf is even a kilometer

[@nickcowen4565]

@@Vits2001uk use miles mate 😅

[@Vits2001]

@@nickcowen4565 Thanks bud, i didn't know

[@jakey9065]

​@@ClinicalDecisionYikesYT you literally couldn't write this comment if it wasn't for the UK. They invented both the internet and started the industrial revolution that made your phone.

[@noob.168]

@@jakey9065 we don't care. enjoy the stained teeth.

[@justken5]

6:22 you guys messed it up, they sell reflective letter stickers online that go perfectly on top of the letters except they're translucent so you can't tell if they're even there but once it's flash photographed the numbers just go white. Super illegal but works as intended

[@abetta163rd]

I saw them but can’t find them anymore

[@Banditt42]

Back in the 1990's when BC brought in photo radar, cameras in vans parked on the side of the road, we tested a bunch of stuff and found plain old hairspray on the plates worked the best. The flash whited out the plate. Our tests showed multiple layers of hairspray worked the best and you had to do it often.

[@sarahs1857]

But does it work for red light cameras?

[@MattTrudden]

does it still work after it rains??

[@ChefBoyarDEEZ]

9:00 this is the type of guy that would sell out his friends and families under a communist regime who weren't going along with the system.

[@Lisa-pc9nn]

He's how Anne Frank got caught

[@SupraSav]

The fact that you guys held up traffic, with a police officer, to run a red light... Never change boys.

[@ethans2223]

The guys reaction to the license plate "repair man" was spot on! 😅

[@dank9288639]

All you have to do is borrow that a hole neighbors plate 😂

[@CharlesChristena]

@8:50 I'm with you Gobby... Touch my car, I touch your face un an unkind way.

[@ymp6345]

Donut media please don't get gambling sites as sponsors!!!! Besides mechanics kids watch your videos to get inspired, that's how I found you guys and started watching you!!!

[@matessoltys131]

True, it feels wrong

[@BaldMancTwat]

@@matessoltys131 It IS wrong. The only reason a KZbinr picks a gambling sponsor is because they pay WAY better than other sponsors. It's always about greed.

[@randomicko542]

There's an old Mythbusters episode where they test similar products. They didn't work back then and not much seems to have changed :)

[@BaggerFood101]

Because people aren’t very motivated right now.

[@arcanondrum6543]

Everything about Mythbusters s***ked a**. Advertising, that's all they were there for. "Results" were predetermined. One host was an idiot, the other was much worse.

[@randomicko542]

@@arcanondrum6543 You are, of course, allowed to have whatever opinion you want on anything. But saying that Mythbusters, a show where they literally cover up (or blur out) every label on products and never mention specific brands by name (unless it's required, such as Mentos and coke) was only there for advertising, seems like an incredibly idiotic statement. What are they supposed to have advertised? Explosions?

[@BlackDeltaOne]

Love it! I would like to see an idea tested: get a camera flash that has a slave mode (flashes when it detecs other flash), attach it to the car somewhere, have it pointed to the roadside and if you get flashed, it should flash straight back at the camera and blow out the image. It would be interesting to see how that looks.

[@CarMake]

Thats a cool idea. assuming the timing could be near instantaneous which i would say is possible. what's basically impossible tho is differentiating between headlights and camera flash. also some cameras dont flash. just like these cameras, the rear flashed a tiny amount which would be near indistinguishable from a street light or headlight etc. the front was the big flash to catch the drivers face. this was a rear facing camera and these guys completely messed it up lol

[@justinhadley3927]

To defeat the IR mechanism of the Speed Camera you could have SMD IR Leds constantly on, that surround the license plate cover, wouldn't work though on visible light cameras though...

[@BlackDeltaOne]

@@CarMake It is near instantaneous, i work with that equipment from time to time, hence the idea :D They are pretty clever and hard to trigger on accident, even with a flashlight. So traffic light should be no problem. Here in germany all speedtraps i have seen would flash from the front, even the red (or IR?) ones at night are pretty bright. anyways just an idea :D

[@Dtr146]

I'm just glad I live in a small enough Podunk area that I don't have to worry about stuff like this. Even the traffic cameras that are recording don't work because they haven't been kept up

[@spectrum3720]

15:57 Straight To Jail.. 😆

[@BullyBreaker]

Jerry got the fiery passion about people messing with cars that ain’t theirs 😂

[@abrahamlincoln8477]

Dying at the LA Noire reference 13:49 whoever edited that with Jerry's face deserves a raise

[@minucos]

Jerry and Zach seeing that guy fixing peoples’ plates went off like a couple Italians watching someone put pineapple on pizza

[@bmacier]

I would have liked to hear how easy it would be for the officer to narrow down the rest of the numbers on the plate based on the Year/model/color of the car with a partial block of the leaf 🍃.

[@smalltime0]

just need more leaves, or a bigger leaf

[@gropaygrapay]

13:54 The guy on the simulator crashed his go kart straight into a cone 🤣

[@FentylAddict]

Donut has inspired me to buy one of these illegal plate covers 🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@angelocoppola5243]

In ontario canada for about a year they were changed the plates to a blue background with white lettering. What they failed to see is that when a speed camera flashed the plate or when a police car tryed to read it, it came up completely white making the plate impossible to read.

[@user-marco-S]

In the Netherlands, a taxi has a plate with a blue background and black lettering. I don't know whether a speed or red light camera sees the lettering.

[@negil]

I did a road trip from BC to Ontario this summer, and I saw a couple of thise plates! In the day, they didn't seem so bad, but as soon as the sun came down, you couldn't read them at all, it was hilarious to see

[@jbot9k325]

I fucking love them

[@b127_1]

​@@user-marco-SWith EU plates, only the background is reflective, so the letters should really easy to make out with a flash, no matter the color.

[@bamboom9201]

Hilarious that they didn't even bother to do any real world testing on a change of that magnitude. Your taxpayer dollars at work.

[@garry_b_bush]

8:45, Jerry goes insane 🤣🤣🤣

[@Chaos_God_of_Fate]

That leaf idea is freaking awesome! Just pop them off when you're turning, then drive a bit more before pulling over.

[@MsDanihell]

Where sell?

[@brooklynaudit]

You guys are hilarious 😂 & great. New sub here. Much love guys. Keep making them videos

[@pitdoctor]

I had a job working for the company that handled toll roads in Washington State. The computer would do it's best to read the plate, and the ones it wasn't sure of would get sent for human review. Saw lots of license plates frames that would obscure half of the state name on the plate. Saw lots of pickups that would put a tow ball into the bumper in front of the rear plate. Also saw numerous motorcycle riders that would just reach back and hold their hand over the plate while going past the camera.

[@pmiguelpinto90]

Does the motorcycle hand trick work? Wouldn't you be able to go to the system and guess who it was by the vehicle model and partial plate? Asking for a friend who lives in a corrupt country where criminals run the tolls.

[@g000se99]

Yeah vehicle model and partial works ..

[@rettony3878]

How about the empty bike racks that I see here pnw.

[@aluisious]

You really think the person reviewing photos of license plates has the go get em attitude to hunt down bike models and partial plates? @@pmiguelpinto90

[@Hillary4SupremeRuler]

​@@g000se99just get a rectangle piece of cardboard as big as the plate and hold it down with your hand in the middle

[@luciusn21]

Last time I read about photo blocker, I read you're supposed to do like 4 coats or something like that. It'd be nice to see this tested again but applied properly

[@jimmyray914]

I have been using automotive clear coat since the late 80s. Never got a ticket.

[@luciusn21]

@@jimmyray914 have you been triggering cameras though?

[@jimmyray914]

It must be working if I've never been pulled over. I will not admit to nothing.@@luciusn21

[@smalltime0]

I think that's one of those "it didn't work, this product is garbage" "no you just didn't use it correctly, you're suppose to use the whole can per plate"

[@luciusn21]

@@smalltime0 I doubt 4 coats is the entire can. My shoe spray is only 6 oz and I get 2 coats on like 10 shoes each before needing a new can. 4 thin coats on a license plate is not going to be that much.

[@nickabel8279]

8:53 no you guys had it right first time. Realize what cops are

[@techwick79]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! It sounds like the involvement of both a retired cop and current officers made for an interesting and dynamic video. If you have any other videos or topics you’re excited about, feel free to share!

[@GlassGirl1312]

@ 9:05 I hate how they switched up so quickly when they found out he was a cop 😂😂

[@Sammie1053]

Y'all almost got me busted at work with that Tom Scott vape clip 😂

[@Iambestforreal]

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[@Heroo01]

then just do your job? why are you watching youtube at work anyway?

[@yapflipthegrunt4687]

@@Heroo01 because the job is soul-crushing

[@iiimaskyiii7816]

@@Heroo01maybe he was on break? Maybe he had a slow day and his manager said he could chill on his phone? Maybe he got all of his duties done and was waiting for closing? Not everyone works at McDonald’s bro, some of us actually have jobs that are good to us.

[@aldomedina970]

17:50 I think the leaf 🌿 wins, lettuce 🥬 know what you think in the comments

[@netoisthebest]

I don't know why but I was surprised they actually had police blockage to do the camera test and not just drive thru a red light at 3am lol

[@rogerwilco1777]

cause illegal

[@kyleeverly9243]

Cause 8 million plus subs

[@mwiz100]

Because posting that video could easily get them arrested - it's proof you committed a crime and you can be prosecuted for it. People posting doing dumb shit in traffic has resulted in prosecution. What comes to mind is motorcycle rider doing like 70 or such lane splitting in damn near stopped traffic. Straight to jail, quite literally.

[@thecam0073]

2 words: bike rack

[@nzoomed]

Number plates reflect shockingly bad at the best of times under infrared light. They need specialised cameras to pick them up.

[@codys7942]

@8:30 I am COMPLETELY with Jeremiah on this one.

[@hamstirrer6882]

Same, fucking snitch

[@bleebleblahble8833]

Gersh Kuntzman Lives up to the name

[@codys7942]

@@bleebleblahble8833 Bahahaha!!!

[@83thomasanthony]

I’m very surprised you didn’t test a flip plate!

[@MattePurple1]

They did a flip plate in their video with Legal Eagle.

[@kingzach74]

They did at the end with the bonus plate on the motorcycle.

[@mirceahuja9274]

Here's an ideea. Use the leaf strategy but instead of a leaf use a white or black piece to modify your number. Make an 8 look like a 3. Granted it depends on the licence plate but in some cases it would be much harder to detect

[@foxxrider250r]

Good thinking

[@ghettochicken8420]

“some of you are doing so as we speak” about that…. 😂😂😂

[@Scofco]

I'm a traffic cop. I learned about remote control leaves from this video and I think it's brilliant. It would be hard do not sound stupid when you take the stand in court and testify to remote controlled magnetic leaves to some 70 year old judge.

[@MrFlashVader]

I can’t get enough of donut media !!!!

[@mrvwbug4423]

The SovCit "private" plate has the added bonus of getting your window smashed and ending up on a Van Balion video haha.

[@foxxrider250r]

SovCits are a special type of creature..

[@jmardinly]

Arizona cops never bother anyone for the worst plates imaginable.

[@Paya11550]

This was hella funny to watch the cop 👮 was even having fun too 😂😂

[@gd8205]

There’s seriously no other solution available? I mean, it’s 2024. We have AI. And no effective license plate hiding device that actually works and not easily detected? That’s the real crime here. Seems like a gap in the market waiting to be filled….

[@igorluiz9551]

maybe what protestors in Honk Kong used may work, IF light that blocks cameras, I don't know why it's not common

[@mrvwbug4423]

@@igorluiz9551 It takes a lot of IR LEDs to do that and it only blocks IR cameras. Most speed/red light cameras use flash instead of IR making the LEDs useless. IR is more for toll cameras

[@igorluiz9551]

@@mrvwbug4423 good point

[@bwofficial1776]

The easiest and free solution is don't run red lights. You won't need to hide your license plate.

[@igorluiz9551]

@@bwofficial1776 boo

[@lemster101]

Super fun video and you guys have been nailing it with the guests on this channel and Real Mechanic Stuff. I think that if I wanted to go down this route, I'd modify the Leafmate to be less obvious. I've always preferred the systems that stick something in front of your plate temporarily however, because most of the time you tend to behave (or at least I do). Having something stuck on all the time feels like pushing your luck.

[@DBerwick]

The trick is not to make the numbers more reflective, but less reflective. Adhesive vinyl numbers, such as used on mailboxes, will do this. The idea is to exploit the white balance of the camera. The cameras are calibrated to a specific amount of reflected light. With non-reflective numbers, the reflection from the rest of the plate will completely obscure the numbers and make the plate unreadable.

[@SeanBZA]

Or remove the reflective layer entirely, and put on a matt vinyl instead.

[@BlessByYou777]

😂😂this is was so un-expected. I never thought donut goes gangstas mafia this time.

[@collinsrockets6169]

The leaves are cool until you drop $70 running from a cop😂😂😂😂

[@obensk]

I think we need a control group of a normal plate and the IR stuff

[@nerfherder4284]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@whocreek]

You gotta take the leaves and attach them to a spool, so you can retain them

[@ajm5007]

Also, you could easily just make your own replacement leaves. Glue tiny bits of ferrous sheet metal to actual leaves. For maybe 10 bucks you can get a strip of steel trim and snip dozen of pieces off of it.

[@whocreek]

@@ajm5007 I'm boutta use mettalic sand

[@BatCaveOz]

Great idea... then you have the joy of explaining to a cop why you have a bunch of artificial leaves connected to your license plate with fishing line... because that isn't at all suspicious.

[@whocreek]

@@BatCaveOz the line is to reel them into your trunk to prevent a projectile

[@rogerwilco1777]

@@whocreek ..ok then cops notice some 'leaves' strangely defying the laws of physics and crawling inside a trunk.. wouldnt be suspicious at all

[@princesspupcake1269]

Brooooo, that dude fixing the license plates is a total NARC NARC NAAAAAAARC.

[@animan7529]

“If you do something illegal, do it illegally perfect”

[@CheeseFonduOfTheDelusioned]

Useful infortmation 👍

[@gnrtx-36969]

I got seizure by watching your pfp😳

[@jordanlauzier7297]

I went up in the mountains once in Canada and my license plate got caked with snow. But at the bottom of the mountain, there was no snow at all, got pulled over cuz ill admit it did look deliberate. But I had my story in order and receipts from the mountain brewery we visited. Cop let me go thankfully.

[@nwerd7584]

The places with rising crime have had very big issues with people covering their plates in parking lots where its technically not illegal. Go in store, steal. leave with covered plates. uncover them on the road again. The theft is illegal but not allowing the store to get your license plate is legal since parking lots are private property.

[@lexistential]

I mean completely covering your license plate is probably the most suspicious way to try to hide it, and doing it with something temporary like snow is unreliable at best. obviously there are plenty of stupid people out there but if it's cleaned off there's not really much you can do to magically put it back on if there's no snow around lol

[@thedarkgreenvanman]

I hope those brewery reciepts weren’t from before you started driving. Talk about an easy DUI otherwise

[@igorluiz9551]

lol yep... "officer, how am I drunk if I didn't go to the brewery?"@@thedarkgreenvanman

[@mexicanspec]

He shouldn't have pulled you over in the first place unless you had committed an infraction.

[@iceicebabyil]

You know it’s funny I almost didn’t click on this vid because I was like meh they already did this video kinda, but then I watched it anyway and it was great, yall never cease to amaze me donut crew

[@stormb3948]

“Damn it I’m out of leaves 🍃”

[@NinjaForHire]

they have electronic glass that goes from clear to foggy as well for example some walk-in shower walls are made of it. I would prefer the clear so it wouldn't be distorted to begin with only when you are ready to blow the light. Additionally from my research, I found a lot of people talking about grip tape so I purchased that to give it a shot myself, haven't gotten around to it yet but I'll attempt it and see what it looks like first before making the put it on my ride decision.

[@LethallyReptarded]

These have become very popular in my area in London after the gov decided to start charging older vehicles to stop emission (like London isn't surrounded by a huge motorway and there's a thing called wind...) thankfully some local people in my area have decided to chop down said cameras so I've never had to worry. But yeah they goes owning an older car or getting myself a cheap van so I can work privately all so the gov can get £25 off us a day on top of the road tax we all pay anyway

[@mrvwbug4423]

The "dinosaur parties" in front of the ULEZ photo vans is a hoot. People figured out those inflatable T Rex costumes are just tall enough to obscure the ULEZ cameras on the vans, so people hang out in front of those cameras in those costumes haha.

[@jameshealy4594]

That hacksaw is really paying for itself though huh? 😉

[@matthewmilam286]

If you have a truck with a bumper, mounted license plate just lay a bag of peanuts on it. I know a guy that’s been driving around for a year with a bag of peanuts obscuring his license plate. He said he’s even had cops get behind him and just laugh. Apparently it works until it doesn’t.

[@SenseiKreese]

Professional photographer here - it was obvious the non-reflective tape would fail because if it didn't reflect any light - you wouldn't even see it with your eyes, it would be invisible. If you can see it with your eyes, it's reflecting light, and the camera will see it too.

[@BogeyTheBear]

Purpose of flash photography is to add contrast, so if your reflector can pump up light across the entire frame, you blow out the contrast.

[@Ryoneftw]

Loving this illegal stuff videos, that was so fun to watch lol!

[@rapidshot3033]

It’s definitely illegal at least in my state to tamper with someone else’s plate. I would be upset too if someone drew on my plate 😂

[@jeffomalley100]

I had a plate in Massachusetts a few years ago that pretty much all of the paint flaked off just like that and I got pulled over a few times for it and they would always be like we thought you had a fake plate on it they never seen that happen to a license plate I hadn't either lol but I could have made a better looking plate than pretty much a blank plate luckily the numbers are pressed into the plate so they could see it was a legit plate but It got to the point I had to go and pay for a new plate which is fucked since I didn't do anything to it to make it fall apart like that lol.

[@regularSenseAppeal]

A real leaf smeared with really thinned out wood glue would probably offer the best of plausible deniability. "Wow, sure is a sticky leaf officer. Thanks a lot for making me aware!".

[@sweatybandit0]

There's intent behind the leaf, too. I don't think the cop fully understood what the leaf was about😂

[@firebirdude2]

If the leaf looked more realistic, I'd be onboard.