Nathan's BA4 3rd Gen

The "S" express · Post by **honda-hardy** » Mon May 27, 2013 9:54 pm

that is illegal, like having a sunstrip. obstruction within a prescribed area. ie within the area of wiper sweep. plus... this looks really jobby. sorry to be so abrupt but a car has to have a number plate. so why not put the right one on, in the right position like every other cars.

Post by **Donald** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:08 pm

You can trim that down loads, only need 11mm all the way around so you can reduce the size of it a fair bit.

The "S" express · Post by **honda-hardy** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:20 pm

also bud, you need a new plate as its de-laminating. looks bad on the inside. plus... you have gone through all this effort with this car, only to pin the plate up with a cork.

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:32 pm

Donald wrote:You can trim that down loads, only need 11mm all the way around so you can reduce the size of it a fair bit.

Yeah I plan to get new plates and the minimum legal size can be a lot smaller than that current one. I would chop that one down (as I have done others), but I can see by the way it's constructed that if I did cut it down it'd just peel apart.

honda-hardy wrote:that is illegal, like having a sunstrip. obstruction within a prescribed area. ie within the area of wiper sweep. plus... this looks really jobby. sorry to be so abrupt but a car has to have a number plate. so why not put the right one on, in the right position like every other cars.

You say that Sam, but my sun visors take up twice the depth when they're down, so I'm not sure how that can apply.

And then the rest is again just a matter of opinion. You prefer the look of a JDM sized plate front and back, but I think that looks terrible. Especially a rear JDM plate on a UK sized surround. As I said, I think the front end looks so SO much better without a front plate at all. And where I did have it (which I feel is the best location for it) it then restricts the air flow to the radiator.

In regular light and not where a flash is high-lighting it, the plate where I've now got it isn't actually that noticable anyway.

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:36 pm

honda-hardy wrote:also bud, you need a new plate as its de-laminating. looks bad on the inside. plus... you have gone through all this effort with this car, only to pin the plate up with a cork.

You're sounding quite bitter Sam

See what I said to Donald in the post above about the current plate, and the "cork" is just temporary

I wanted to make sure I was happy with it before I went to any effort it sorting a proper mount or anything

Post by **Donald** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:51 pm

NafemanNathan wrote:I wanted to make sure I was happy with it before I went to any effort it sorting a proper mount or anything

It's a shame about the location of the rear view mirror arm really, would be cool IMO if you could fab up a slim centre sun visor to attach the plate to, that way the back would be hidden from view when in the car and securely fixed. When the plate needs to be on show you can flip the visor down, then when you want it hidden you can just visor up. Does that make sense?

I guess you could still do something with the pass. side. Maybe sacrifice a spare by trimming it to plate dimensions and retrimming. Art Attack much.

I take it the re-respray is still on the cards? Just wondering if it's worth sorting some holes in the bumper in case plod decide they don't like it in the window. Could bung the holes with something subtle and colour matched. Maybe something similar looking to your reverse sensors so it fits in.

Full of good ideas tonight!

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Mon May 27, 2013 11:02 pm

I planned on making a simple wedge shape with a crescent-profiled channel out of the bottom of it to sit on the mirror arm and then simply have an adhesive pad to stick it to the back of the plate.

I had considered getting a wink mirror as well and mounting it to that, but when Max is in the back, Stace needs to put the seat right forward if she's in the car too, and although there's enough leg room still, she'd be perminantly looking right into the mirror

Yeah, the respray's still on the cards, but that's not an option

Post by **4thgenphil** » Mon May 27, 2013 11:24 pm

http://www.hidetheplate.com/ ??

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Mon May 27, 2013 11:28 pm

got one of those lol

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Mon May 27, 2013 11:29 pm

Isn't @Mercutio fitting one of these? A lot of money for a numberplate mount

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