Don't Have the Time to Renew Your Brake Tag? No Problem I Got You

As long as you get the color right, you're good to go.

I asked my mechanic how do all these people with the CEL on get theirs, he said they either dont or get a fake one.

on a side note... the term "brake tag"...

I was raised to call them "safety stickers" or "inspection stickers" (or, 'go get your car inspected', but not 'go get your brake tag').

I assumed the generation prior to me (pre-70s), going back to the first license plates and tags, called them "brake tags" because in the 1930s to 1960s maybe that is all that was really looked at (can this thing stop, or is it a death machine?)

Anyway, just a curiosity where the terms, which all mean the same, diverge in our common vernacular.

52 and have always called it a brake tag. Used to bring my mom's car to the shell station on West Metairie and Elise. Pulled into the bay and they had you turn on the lights, hit the high beams (which was done with a push knob on the floorboard) hit the brakes and you were done.

I don't know what would stop someone from photoshopping a real one that would easily pass.

And that concrete thing in the middle of the road?

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I don't know what would stop someone from photoshopping a real one that would easily pass.

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for a day or two, maybe. But if caught, the penalty for forging one may be criminal (whereas the penalty for not having a current one is, what, a $150 fine?)

any law-talking-guys/gals out there?

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South Louisiana
I call it brake tag


I also call it hot water heater and hose pipe.

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43 and would like to add ice box

Or you go to a shop that doesn't give a shite and gives it to you anyway.