Can I switch license plates between cars?

My daughters want to switch cars, but like their license plates and want to keep them. One car is a Honda and one is a Chrysler.

You MUST do that through the state DMV. The cars will need to be re-registered with the new plate number.

If you just switch them, one or both of you will end up in trouble sometime in the future.

If you have to ask, the answer is no.

No, that's illegal.

You will have to re-register the 2 cars, that is not free.

See if you can download new forms on your state DMV website. You just can't change them over without filling out the forms and going to the DMV office for getting new registrations for both cars

In my state if you have a personalized plate it stays with the driver if you buy another car. If not it stays with the car. In every state you can't just switch plates between two cars you own.

Yeah. You go to jail but who cares if you get your license plate to be different!

Are you wishing to switch ownership of the two automobiles? If so, you must transfer title of each of the two vehicle for it to be legally recognized by your state's DMV offices. Can you keep the plates you wish? That would depend on the rules and procedures of your unnamed state. In some US states plates stay with the automobile for life. Other states require that plates be transferred. Which applies to you? Only your state's DMV officials have the answer.

You have to contact the DMV to make the switch.

No. The plates are linked to the car. If the cops run a plate for a Honda and it comes up registered to a Chrysler, one or both of your daughters will probably get a free ride in the back of a police car. Law enforcement frowns upon being tricked like that, they tend to believe there's a stolen car or some other crime involved. Most often they are correct.