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My experience getting HSRP number plates for my 19-yr-old Toyota Innova

9th February 2025, 11:45 by Utkarsh Chaudhary

The process of installation the number plates was really professional with proper tools and utmost care not to damage anything.

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Very easy and seamless process on the HSRP website and service by RMIL center opposite R-City Ghatkopar (W), Mumbai.

I got a slot today, 01 February 2025, at 12 PM, nearly a month's waiting since online order.

The status of all the stages was updated on the portal, from order, going into making, dispatch to delivery at center, to fitting completed.

The portal sometimes craps out and hangs up waiting, but nothing that will break. Comes back to life in some time and you can easily do the process or get status.

The status was showing delivered a week earlier than the fitment date. After calling them, they asked me to come only on the day of the appointment.

Yesterday upon call, they informed me to come anytime between 10AM-5PM on the day of the appointment.

The center is located in B2, MCGM Parking, beside The Address Complex, Ghatkopar (W) opposite R-City Mall. It is just a kind of makeshift working space with a table and boxes for tools, plates and frames. You just need to take the other entry/exit gate adjacent to the Address Complex, Ghatkopar. Heard a couple of people complaining about reaching there after me. They couldn't locate it and roamed around before getting there. Feels like going into a dungeon as you descend the spiral ramp. The ramp is 2 laned 2-way Entry and Exit ramp.

I got late to the appointment due to some work and turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Around 1:30 PM I promptly got a call that I haven't reached for the fitment schedule. Apologized and reached shortly after at the center for fitment.

Upon reaching, the guys there tell me the story of being flooded with cars for the day's appointments since morning till an hour before I reached. He called me since I hadn't turned up and they were mostly looking at winding up the the day's schedule. When I reached, it was totally to myself and only a few 2-4 cars came afterwards who must have been reminded like me.

The process of installation was really professional with proper tools and utmost care not to damage anything, marking holes, to make proper fitting. I asked them to fit with the frames for an additional cost of Rs 400.

The HSRP plate quality also felt good. The frame quality felt nice.

They broke the old plates, took photos and uploaded the status on the portal in my presence only. I did request them to give me back my old plates but they denied saying they have to deposit back the proof of broken plates.

I hope it is strictly implemented and helps in some way reduce the menace of the fancy plates and traffic regulations.

However, the result of the Sunfilm and bull guard bans, which I had duly implemented as soon as declared, is widely known, especially the Sunfilm ban which we can observe quite a few get to tint their windows black and pass off easily.

I do miss the bull guards while navigating the rough terrains, where earlier I used to be more careless.

So my 19-year-old beauty got the HSRPs finally.