My Euro has a US sized mount, with a European sized mount over that, with a AU size plate in it, and oddly enough it all looks like shit.
The 2007 cars I see in pics have a neat AU sized mount... can this be fitted to the 2005 bumper?
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My Euro has a US sized mount, with a European sized mount over that, with a AU size plate in it, and oddly enough it all looks like shit.
The 2007 cars I see in pics have a neat AU sized mount... can this be fitted to the 2005 bumper?
I've got an 06 and yes it's ugly.I removed the holder and cut approx.1/3rd of it off and sanded it back with a bit of fine grade wet and dry.BTW i've got slimline premium plates.
mine had the huge ass japanese holder on it... used to be like double the size of my number plate! i cut it down to size and sanded off with wet'n'dry too... then i sprayed it metallic silver (match my car) and clear coated it... looks sexy now :D
ftw i also have slimline plates...
I also cut mine down to size and I just have normal plates.
mine is MY07 also was too big i have slimline plates. I cut it and painted it silver and clear coated it, looks much better. Thanks EUROO3act for the idea
i took the plastic thing off and just re drilled the number plate - it sits flush on a 1mm thick foam plate so it doesnt scratch the bar.
Well, I took it all apart and had a look.
I decided to throw out the European shaped moulding, and then trimmed down the US moulding so that it had no flange on it, and trimmed the bottom so it was ~20mm short of the bottom of the AU plate. I sanded it all down so that it was smooth and square, and then coated it a couple of times with Moto spray matt black paint to hide the sanding marks.
Conveniently the US mount has perforation lines around the edge of the flange making it easy to trim off with tin-snips or a sharp hobby knife.
Looks good!
http://lh6.google.com.au/luke.smith....0/DSC_7607.jpg
http://lh6.google.com.au/luke.smith....0/DSC_7606.jpg