Show us your custom number-plate mount!

[crzymx]

Easy, you can literally (but carefully), bend down the existing one to make it sit in the grill. Easy and effective! The hard part is unbolting it to cut off some excess bracket which you dont need. I just gotta get some time to actually remake mine.

Will post some pics when im not lazy.

[Locutus]

Easy, you can literally (but carefully), bend down the existing one to make it sit in the grill. Easy and effective! The hard part is unbolting it to cut off some excess bracket which you dont need.

people generally just take the bracket off, then just bolt it back on upside down.

i went to bunnings and bought some angled steel and bolts for <$10 to make my side mount.

phone pic courtesy of felix:

[Adam_NAclubman]

Two cable-ties through the holes that the stock bracket bolts into in the bar is even easier than bending the bracket or putting it in upside down. Mine has been like that for almost two years now I think

[crzymx]

Thats mine, bit shonky, meaning to get back to it and make one from scratch using the originals as templates. Good luck me!

I want to raise it a bit higher.

[Jeo]

Mine was done by the last owner. Small welded bracket...

[Adam_NAclubman]

I like that... and the black...

[Jeo]

I'm a fan

[feel_ixx]

Thats mine, bit shonky, meaning to get back to it and make one from scratch using the originals as templates. Good luck me!

I want to raise it a bit higher.

Hey, you donnt need originals I don't think. Bunnings sells some more than adequate right hand brackets that you can basically do anything with, as long as you have a drill.

Here's mine, mine used to be where crzymx was but a little higher, however I think it may have been the one that caused some over heating at the track. So now with the help of 1 right hand bracket and one newly drilled hole, I have a new place for it, allows for the air to get in without needing to have it inn the old position or J style.

[Fblee]

How legal is it to fit the front plate on the side in NSW?

[PUR157]

It only depends on how you mount it
As long as it remains completely forward facing, and none of the plate is obscured, it is legal
So technically it should stay vertical and sit across the car if you know what I mean

The regs state that it needs to be viewable from 45 degree off to either side of the car and also some certain amount of degrees above and below

[TieNN89]

It only depends on how you mount it
As long as it remains completely forward facing, and none of the plate is obscured, it is legal
So technically it should stay vertical and sit across the car if you know what I mean

The regs state that it needs to be viewable from 45 degree off to either side of the car and also some certain amount of degrees above and below

and the edges are sharp so put a number plate frame on it

[Jace]

here's mine


bent it a bit to almost fit to the shape of the bumper.
very simple, very shaky, but i think it makes my car look a little less hairdresser like.
plus better cooling i guess, even though it's a new radiator.

[PUR157]

and the edges are sharp so put a number plate frame on it

I put a rubber band around the area it was scraping at first... but that perished from being in the sun

Now I've stuck half of those things you put on chair legs to stop them from scratching floorboards etc
works a treat... and you get a pack of a moolion from those $2 shops

[Smacca]

Well I side mounted the front number plate for the SE today. Thanks partly to the inspiration from other cars on the forum, but mostly due to the fact that ever since moving to Sydney last year, my car has been backed into on 3 separate occassions by the scum of the earth that take off without leaving details. The last time (Christmas Eve), the hit was that hard it pushed the bracket back into the front bar, punching the plate's mounting screw straight through. The end result is a nice little hole and you can actually see the bolt's thread in it. Not happy!

It's booked in for a repair and respray soon, so I thought now's the time to experiment in moving the plate to at least avoid another hole punch. And since I've got HIDs for the projectors, the driving lights were also removed. So there's no problem of the plate's new mounting position covering the driving light.

Here a few shots I took just after I put the front bar back on.



You can see the hole in the centre of the bar. And from the front on...



And one with the HID's. Mmm... blue.

[madboy]

I am seeing alot of NSW plates in there, but where are all the QLD ones? i am looking for some imspiration to move my plate, its simple screwed to the front bumper above the mouth, a bit raw and looks a bit funny.