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Wuey · Postby **Wuey** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:09 pm

Seeing the minor damage that I inherited from the PO, one of the first tasks I did was to saw off both protruding ends of those licence plate bolts. I made each end flushed with the nut to reduce more severe accidental damage.

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:28 pm

Caffeine wrote:
marcusus wrote:Why not just stop the car whilst in neutral, then put it in gear? That's what I do...

One needs to have the car in gear, in order to move it into the parking spot...

You misunderstand me. Drive the car to the position you want it to be in. Stop car. Put gear in neutral. Pull handbrake (in the up position preferrably). Turn off car. Put car in desired gear.

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:23 am

marcusus wrote:
Caffeine wrote:
marcusus wrote:Why not just stop the car whilst in neutral, then put it in gear? That's what I do...

One needs to have the car in gear, in order to move it into the parking spot...

You misunderstand me. Drive the car to the position you want it to be in. Stop car. Put gear in neutral. Pull handbrake (in the up position preferrably). Turn off car. Put car in desired gear.

How is that any safer that what Matty does? Drive in, foot on clutch, stop engine...

With your method, taking your foot off the clutch before you put the car in neutral will lead to the same problem.

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:27 am

Because the tranny is in neutral before switching off the engine.

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:20 pm

JBT wrote:Because the tranny is in neutral before switching off the engine.

The whole problem arose because he forgot to put it in neutral

AJ · Postby AJ » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:44 pm

Caffeine wrote:
JBT wrote:Because the tranny is in neutral before switching off the engine.

The whole problem arose because he forgot to put it in neutral

yep, & i bet he won't do it again in a hurry :wink:

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:27 pm

Caffeine wrote:The whole problem arose because he forgot to put it in neutral

The difference is because he took his foot off the clutch whilst the engine is still running. As pointed out, if you kill the engine before you put it back into first, you won't run any risk of bunny hopping in to anything.

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:49 pm

marcusus wrote:
Caffeine wrote:The whole problem arose because he forgot to put it in neutral

The difference is because he took his foot off the clutch whilst the engine is still running. As pointed out, if you kill the engine before you put it back into first, you won't run any risk of bunny hopping in to anything.

Well of course if you do everything right you won't run into anything. If you forget a step in your procedure there's just as much chance of buggering something up...

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:13 pm

Caffeine wrote:Well of course if you do everything right you won't run into anything. If you forget a step in your procedure there's just as much chance of buggering something up...

Depends on how you do the procedure really. Once my engine is off, I usually don't bother putting the clutch in to put the car into first. So if I forget to turn off the engine, I won't be able to engage gears. A simple step to ensure that there's less chance of it happening.

TheMissus · Postby **TheMissus** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:08 pm

Matty wrote:Two nice fresh holes in the bumper.

I feel your pain ... but you make me feel so normal. I have some of those lovely little holes in my front bumper too (yes those lights at the Airport Roundabout make it so much safer ... :roll:

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My way of hiding the holes was to get ASE05 to detail the car within an inch of it's life so people are impressed by how shiney the car is and don't look any further. It just means a new nose cone is moved much further up the "restore and rebuild" list than it was previously and I get a lovely shiney new nose cone for $400 (my excess!).

philz · Postby **philz** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:31 pm

Well I have installed the Mx5 +[plus] number plate holder, and it doesn't cover the holes, it actually makes the number plate sit LOWER. So it may not help your problem.

Though I would highly recommend the product to people who haven't changed their crappy stock number plate holder to the mx5 plus one, it's a really smart design, much more sturdier, and also sits more \"flush\" with the bumper.
And most importantly doesn't leave those nasty two holes in the bumper!!

Pics:

The hole mark damages are in red, can't be clearly seen in photo