Number plate screw holes
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Try these ? https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1091503192/ezm-num...
Er, perhaps not ..
Er, perhaps not ..
Edited by Regbuser on Thursday 18th April 09:00
I'd use filler followed by knifing putty to leave a smooth finish. This will shrink back a little, leaving a small depression to gradually fill with a perfect paint match using Chipex or a similar oem match. Use a fine brush or perhaps a toothpick to dab paint on in layers.
This all takes time and is a pita, but it works.
It's essential to allow full drying/shrinkage time for the fillers before paint. Build up layers of paint and (weeks later) carefully denib, or sand/polish.
It won't be invisible but unless up close no one would notice.
Either that or fill/sand/ respray.
This all takes time and is a pita, but it works.
It's essential to allow full drying/shrinkage time for the fillers before paint. Build up layers of paint and (weeks later) carefully denib, or sand/polish.
It won't be invisible but unless up close no one would notice.
Either that or fill/sand/ respray.
TwinKam said:
And all of the above contributions serve to demonstrate just why my suggestion was the best, simplest, cheapest, quickest, most elegant and obvious solution.
Given that I've just had the gopping original plate removed, and had explained that in my post, it was a rather foolish 'solution'.TwinKam said:
What's with the short number plate anyway?
Firstly, as long as it is correctly spaced it is fully legal.As to why the short plate is better...Designers spend hundreds of hours perfecting the lines that go into a car. The front of my car is an elegant thing and bolting a plinth and a great big plate on the front significantly diminishes that elegance.
Best to go 'plate in da windah, mate' then, and cough up the fine every time the BiB pull you over.. 
See also:
Orange tints
Wind deflectors
Full crabonz DTM trim
Seat to floor
Slammed springs
Skinny tyres on wide rims
Stance innit
Pop n bang map
XL bully in passenger seat
Orange peel oompah loompah Waynetta in the back, with her vajazzle on show
Sorry, I started fantasising my late mid-life crisis..
See also:
Orange tints
Wind deflectors
Full crabonz DTM trim
Seat to floor
Slammed springs
Skinny tyres on wide rims
Stance innit
Pop n bang map
XL bully in passenger seat
Orange peel oompah loompah Waynetta in the back, with her vajazzle on show
Sorry, I started fantasising my late mid-life crisis..
Belle427 said:
Carefully applied filler and some touch up paint will work, you will probably still see it though.
That's what I think, too. Short of an expensive job on the whole bumper I don't think there's an easy solution.You could contemplate a plate made just long enough to cover the holes, paint each end of the plate in body colour and then stick it on with adhesive strips. Wouldn't cost much to give that a try.
When I said Chipex I was actually thinking of Paint Gear. Excellent paint matches and kits.
https://www.paintgear.co.uk/pages/detailing
https://www.paintgear.co.uk/pages/detailing
paulguitar said:
TwinKam said:
And all of the above contributions serve to demonstrate just why my suggestion was the best, simplest, cheapest, quickest, most elegant and obvious solution.
Given that I've just had the gopping original plate removed, and had explained that in my post, it was a rather foolish 'solution'. paulguitar said:
TwinKam said:
What's with the short number plate anyway?
Firstly, as long as it is correctly spaced it is fully legal.As to why the short plate is better...Designers spend hundreds of hours perfecting the lines that go into a car. The front of my car is an elegant thing and bolting a plinth and a great big plate on the front significantly diminishes that elegance.
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