Rear numberplate fixing

[sawood12]

Now that my rear end looks as good as it did when the car rolled off the production line - if not better - my tatty numberplate is really letting the side down so i've just ordered a new one. Being supercritical i've noticed that my current numberplate fixing screws are very close together which doesn't look right to me. Is there a bracket that you can get that spaces out the screws or is it best just to use double sided adhesive pads?

 

[944turboS]

My 924S had a bracket the American & the continental cars have brackets, but these space the plate away from the body by about 5mm & it is imposible to clean behind the plate.
I'd go with the industrial strength double sided tape, unless you use the screw heads as part of a personalised plate (this is of course illegal) in which case you could glue on plastic number plate screw heads.

 

[Fen]

I agree with Graeme. The problem is that the holes are quite close together in the back panel, but the brackets space the plate away. I'd go with sticky pads - the Halfords ones are OK. Remember to cover the holes with Duck tape to prevent fumes/water leaking in.

 

[sawood12]

Cheers, I thought that the sticky pads would be the way to go. I've ordered the plates through Fancyplates (http://www.fancyplates.com/index.html) who normally supply a little fixing kit that includes the sticky pads.

 

[Guest]

I get my plates from fancyplates too, and find them excellent.[]

 

[sawood12]

They are good. It saves all the faffing about with registration docs and you can get customer specified sized ones like the one I got for the front to fit perfectly inbetween the slots for my intercooler and radiator which turned out to use near as damn it standard sized lettering on a slightly smaller sized plate. I've stuck with standard for the rear though.

 

[Guest]

Do they have the BS standard number printed tiny on them somewhere? Mine dont and it might not be legal, bearing in mind that the original plates wouldn`t have that anyway.

 

[Fen]

I strongly suspect that on cars first used before 1st September 2001 they'd have the Devil's own job proving a "show plate" is illegal if it would have been Ok prior to the regulation change on that date. That's the thinking behind my ordering a self-adhesive plate for the MX5 at least.

 

[wizard]

ORIGINAL: Fen

. That's the thinking behind my ordering a self-adhesive plate for the MX5 at least.

Sorry to go off topic - but what the hell is going on!? [&:] First of all Rick goes Ricer with his MR2, now you Fen. My missus got rid of her MX6 because I kept calling her a Rice Girl. (and because a Baby seat wouldn't fit)

 

[Fen]

Don't you even think about calling me Rice Girl... []