The state has been replacing the regular plates for a few years now. Does anyone know if those who have regular personalized plates have to pay to get those replaced? If they don't then those who have the sesquicentennial plates have a reason to be upset. If they do then stop your whining, no one forced you to get personalized plates.

If you want a replacement set that is non personalized, you will receive the next set available, which will have a different number/letter set than you have now.
If you want to replace your set with the same number letter set, it is $15, which is a fair price to re-stamp your number/ letter set on new plates. When I lived out of state, replacement plates were $50.00 a set personalized or not.

Some states automatically replace plates at the ten-year mark, or even more often (and charge the owners for it!). But free voluntary replacement is better than nothing (and at least now you don't have to go down to the DMV and stand in line).

I believe this was part of the information when those first came out. I would have to pay more for personalized plates vs. regular plates, too....and that's EVERY year. Those plates were originally issued in 1998.

Its free to repaint it yourself.

Thisisme - You beat me to it.

"Drivers with unreadable plates can request new non-personalized plates for free...."

"For Free"... How is the state sticking it to anyone?

So when you are the victim of a hit and run by some one whose plates aren't legible and you aren't able to turn them in, will you still feel like the state is just "sticking it to us" again?

So when you are the victim of a hit and run by someone without a legible license plate and you can't report them, are you still going to balme it on the state for "sticking it to us"?

I don't have sesquicentennial plates but I can attest to the State Patrol watching for faded plates. I received a verbal warning because my front plate has no paint left on it.

Or maybe they need to be overhauled. Give them a discount to repaint them. =)