Front plates (or) One good reason not to live in the UK
Discussion
jus said:
Hehe... all in good humour, mate!
The droptop's the prettiest of all droptops no doubt...
On that note though, have a look at these pics I snapped a little while ago with my car next to a mate's GT3RS (with a rubbish cellphone camera I'm afraid)... the design differences become quite noticeable!
Man, that's the size all AMV8 front plates should be.The droptop's the prettiest of all droptops no doubt...
On that note though, have a look at these pics I snapped a little while ago with my car next to a mate's GT3RS (with a rubbish cellphone camera I'm afraid)... the design differences become quite noticeable!
This is real life-on-the-edge stuff...
I'm refitting my front plate. I plan to:
take off the dealer's plate box (which elevates the plate to obscure the grille);
remove the overengineered ally plate supporting the top part of the dealer's plate box; and
fit a standard UK plate into the threaded holes in the bumper strip immediately below the grille thus obscuring very much less of the grille than before.
I'm a law abiding chap so won't resort to 3/4 sized plates or the like.
Anyone done this already (and if not, why ever not?) ?
Why does the dealer box specifically obscure the upper grille when it could so easily have been fitted just a shade lower, despite the woes of UK's fixed font/letter height + 4mm top and bottom margin. In fact, why is the box needed at all, when the plate could have been wrapped onto and screwed into the plate holes provided? Of course, there may be some over-riding Health and Safety requirement specifying that:
the plate must be x microns above the road surface; and
must lie dead flat and be attached to an ugly box on the front of your car to make it all look pants.
Thanks in advance for any salutory lessons or tips to maximise grille visibility!
Is there ANY car that looks better with a front plate than without?
I've just picked myself back up off the floor. All Astons come out of the factory looking like this, in the buff and devoid of any clutter:
http://www.astonmartin.com/eng/thecars
If we weren't forced to have front plates, then we wouldn't have them, would we? Plates just break up the natural lines.
No - Grant3 - you're not being serious... please say you aren't suggesting that a licence plate/grille combination improves the aesthetics of the car over the "naked" version?
I've just picked myself back up off the floor. All Astons come out of the factory looking like this, in the buff and devoid of any clutter:
http://www.astonmartin.com/eng/thecars
If we weren't forced to have front plates, then we wouldn't have them, would we? Plates just break up the natural lines.
No - Grant3 - you're not being serious... please say you aren't suggesting that a licence plate/grille combination improves the aesthetics of the car over the "naked" version?
vpr said:
This is a better option.....Never had a problem in 15 years like this.
Has "gullible" been taken out of the Oxford English dictionary? Cracking looking collection but I can only think that you haven't had a problem in the last 15 years cos they are all SORN and never grace our public roads... shame.Did a stag party in Vegas and had a great time doing all the usual things there: gambling , titty bars, more gambling, helicopter into Grand Canyon, more gambling but they wouldn't let me hire some Vipers and go out into the desert for a Hoon - that is my one big regret from that trip (that and not seeing Celine Dion perform)... sigh
Gosh Grant3 - you're right after all. 
Sorry all for wasting your time on this post... in the timeless words of Borat ... "not".
No need for a lighter to start the flames, Grant3 looks set to self-combust.
Strangely though, he's right in one way, the mini-plate on the roadster does look plain wrong - out of place. I guess we are all so used to seeing regular sized plates on that pretty face that anything that deviates from the norm rather jars. All the other car faces look spectacular (and right). Nothing to do with the mini-plate photo composition being the worst of the bunch.
Best look is for a regular size plate lowered to expose full grille. Match lit, stands back...
Plain economics dictates that one must dispense with plate holder - a fag packet calculation shows 2.5kg weight reduction will save £317.12 in fuel costs over 6000 miles.
Sorry all for wasting your time on this post... in the timeless words of Borat ... "not".
No need for a lighter to start the flames, Grant3 looks set to self-combust.
Strangely though, he's right in one way, the mini-plate on the roadster does look plain wrong - out of place. I guess we are all so used to seeing regular sized plates on that pretty face that anything that deviates from the norm rather jars. All the other car faces look spectacular (and right). Nothing to do with the mini-plate photo composition being the worst of the bunch.
Best look is for a regular size plate lowered to expose full grille. Match lit, stands back...
Plain economics dictates that one must dispense with plate holder - a fag packet calculation shows 2.5kg weight reduction will save £317.12 in fuel costs over 6000 miles.
Olie - have you been sipping the same sense-depriving cocktail as Grant3 ? Can't see the wow factor in that turquoisey colour. Mind, my wife likes it so I won't argue, it's safer that way. Of the hairdresser (here speaks a man who used to drive TTs - voted Australia's gay car of the year 2005 as my mate pointed out to me by putting an Autocar article under my windscreen wiper) colours available from Aston, I almost went for the silvery blue Ferrari colour "grigio" - summat like that. That looked lovely - maybe (hopefully) Olie was thinking of that blue and not the turquoisey one???
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