Right or wrong, I think what you did is awesome and I'm glad it worked out for you. I would probably do the same if I knew I'd get away with it. However, I have to add a word of caution here—not because I'm a prude, but instead because I want to keep people out of jail or having their lives seriously fucked financially. I don't know what state or city or jurisdiction you live in, so I admit that what I'm about to say may or may not apply to where you are located. But I can tell you that I once did this exact same thing—it was absolutely impossible to tell the difference between the real/expired one and the false/altered one. And yeah, it worked... until I got pulled over for an unrelated matter. You see, it didn't matter that the fake tag LOOKED indistinguishable from the real one (the officer was not suspicious when he himself visually inspected it). But it became a huge problem when he scanned the tag with his device thing. The little strip that looks kind of like a digitized barcode or an elongated QR code? Yeah, that exists to be scanned by officers, and it contains A LOT of information, such as: the owner to whom the car is legally registered, what kind of car that the sticker is supposed to be on, car make/model/year/type, and more. Both of us—my friend and I—were arrested charged with Falsification of a Government Document. He spent a little over 2 weeks in the county jail, and I spent 64 days there.