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Clean License plate clutter free
Well the normal plates here have all sorts of crap on them, cowboy,oil derek,shuttle.. anywho only way to get a picture free one is to get a personal plate, Here in san antonio a personal plate is almost a given you will get keyed so, I went with this one so it does not stand out but its picture free  | | Reply » Clean License plate clutter free |
Quote: Well the normal plates here have all sorts of crap on them, cowboy,oil derek,shuttle.. anywho
only way to get a picture free one is to get a personal plate, Here in san antonio a personal plate is almost a given you will get keyed so, I went with this one so it does not stand out but its picture free | No white screw caps?
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Quote: | Here in san antonio a personal plate is almost a given you will get keyed so, I went with this one so it does not stand out but its picture free | Smart. Very smart.
Slightly off topic; To diminish the "presence" of your plates, have you considered cutting / grinding them down? I ground the plates down on all three of my cars. Taking the top and bottom edges down to within 3/16" of the mount holes, and then took about a quarter inch off at the two sides. Like you, I wanted a pictureless plate. We have about 5 plates to choose from. I went with these new ones that are a subtle collage of sunset colors (supposed to be a plate, where a little money goes to help the arts). Very subtle and really goes with the car.
Anyways, without any graphics on there, it's easy to visually pull off cutting the plate down. There's no way in heckola that a cop would ever notice it. And when you think about it, the plate rim surrounds that people put on their cars cuts out much more, sometimes even covering half of their tags. This way.. It's only a 10% reduction in plate size, but it makes a huge visual difference.
Doing this cuts out the little "fold" that they put around the perimeter of the plate. That fold gives the plate some integrity from bending. So.. you have to be careful with grinding down a plate, not to bend it. If you use tin snips, the cutting blades will warp the plate. I used an inverted belt sander (invaluable tool) and ground down two plates at a time. The two plates, "spooned" together, makes them much stronger.
I finish it off by putting a black vinyl license plate backing behind it, that's ground down from it's stock size as well... leaving a 1/8" "visual bead" of black around the plate. The whole package gives the car a slightly "euro plate" look, without the goofy giant wideness of the euro plates.
If you've already put on your stickers you'll end up cutting into them a bit. But that's ok. I actually cut my stickers down a little to their minimum size that will still show numbers.
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Quote: | Slightly off topic; To diminish the "presence" of your plates, have you considered cutting / grinding them down? | I removed (milled) the flange up to the reinforcement ridge to accommodate the smaller 7/16" radius of the Japanese plate holder. Since the Japanese plate holder recesses the plate the cut edge is hidden. Removing the flange reduces the height and width 5/16".
The back of the Japanese plate holder also matches the compound contours of the coupe trunk lid.
Finally figured a relative easy way to modify the Japanese holder versus having a custom one made. Will be dropping it off soon to be painted in body color.
Also adjusted the plate mounting holes which don't line up on the stock plate holder. If you look at the first pic you can see that the metal washer implant in the plate is off center. I replaced the BMW metal washers with 3/8" OD nylon ones for the current project.
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Clean License plate clutter free