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Also, I don't think that cross bar is deep enough - the letters on the plate are actually taller than that bit of bodywork (the size is mandated by UK regs).
Correct it's too deep to fit beneath the 2 grills and not wrap around as to make it illegal. The current location is where I had it on my old X100 and that was far more difficult due the the contours at the front.
The only downside is that you'll now not have a buffer for those useless drivers that reverse into a space in front of you as the x150 is a long car so my front is right on the line of the bay in front of me
Correct it's too deep to fit beneath the 2 grills and not wrap around as to make it illegal. The current location is where I had it on my old X100 and that was far more difficult due the the contours at the front.
The only downside is that you'll now not have a buffer for those useless drivers that reverse into a space in front of you as the x150 is a long car so my front is right on the line of the bay in front of me
True. I usually try to find a space that eliminates as much risk as possible from the 'park by ear' lot, so I avoid those 'double length' bays if I can. Not always possible of course. I am vaguely toying with the idea of buying a Lamborghini Huracan and one of the things that is putting me off is the fear of ever parking it, anywhere, or leaving it on its own. If I am too chicken to leave it or park it, there seems to be little point in actually owning it. Also, the damn thing is (just) too long to fit in my garage. I made a blunder when we moved into our current house - we had a 200 year old stone cowshed on the property which could easily house four vehicles, but I converted that into a cinema and a gym. This left the only garage as the one-and-a-half garage that is part of the original barn conversion. With hindsight, I should have converted the garage into the cinema, done without the gym, and used the cowshed for cars. Hindsight eh?
Marky, I thought you guys had to have GB on the left end of your license plate.
To add further to MarkyUK's reply, it is optional. If you choose not to have a country-designation on the license plate, then you have to display a separate GB sticker on the back of the car when travelling in Europe. As the UK has now left the EU, it is unclear if everyone displaying the EU 'flag' on their license plate will have to change plates once the 'transition period' ends on 31st December this year. I assume that even if they can keep the EU 'flag', they will still have to display a GB sticker from next year. The idiot EU administration may even make it illegal to display an EU 'flag' if you are from a non-EU country.
I do not have any country designator on my number plate, for reasons similar to MarkyUK's, but neither have I displayed a GB sticker the last few times I have been to France. Since the XKR is aluminium, my magnetic GB sticker won't work and I am not going to stick things to my car just to satisfy some bureaucrat in the EU. I have not received any attention from French (Or Italian) police as a result. It is also pretty obvious to any non-brain-dead LEO that the license plate itself designates a UK vehicle, since our colour and letter combination is unique in Europe.
it is a legal requirement in many, if not most, US states as well. but more often than not it's also (casually?) referred to as a "secondary offense," which is to say, 99% of the time no officer will pull you over for it -- but if they pull you over for anything else then the fine for not having it will be tacked on to your ticket.
I've been driving my XKR (x100) for 17 years without the front plate is a state where they are required with no issues at all. Fortunately, I've never been pulled over in my home state which might have drawn a question. I still carry my front plate and bracket in the trunk just in case so I can explain that it "just fell off" if need be.
Which, if you read the thread is what effectively has been used by many, I mean why spend that sort of money...appreciate you'll need to buy 6 when you can get it resprayed snd blended in for not a lot more.
Although I appreciate you guys stateside may have to pay more than I did.
Which, if you read the thread is what effectively has been used by many, I mean why spend that sort of money...appreciate you'll need to buy 6 when you can get it resprayed snd blended in for not a lot more.
Although I appreciate you guys stateside may have to pay more than I did.
Without wishing to diss the guys who are happy with their solution, I am with you on this one. I wouldn't be happy to have a rash of warts over the front of my car and would pay to have the holes professionally filled and repainted. I intend to wait a while until I need to take the car to have any stone chips (rock chips) rectified and then I will have the front plate mount removed and go for the stick-on plate you use. That way, the rectification of the plate holes will be a 'free ride' on my stone chip repairs. I generally find that every couple of years or so I have enough stone chips to bug me into getting them fixed. Especially if I have been hooning around on some of our less well-surfaced road network here in the UK.
Eh, you really can't refill the holes - they're too big for a rubber bumper. It's a bumper replacement + paint. When I checked just after receiving the car in 2011, that would have been around 1500 USD (800 or so for the bumper, a couple of hours for R&R, ~500 in paint). Plugs were significantly cheaper at less than 100. Maybe OEM bumpers have come down in price, but I doubt much. 2010/2011 bumpers are unique to those two years too so... /shrug
So my decision at the time was: You either take the wart of a big ol license plate, or the 5 smaller warts of a bumper plug for under a single Benjamin.
On my Roller, because it's a steel bumper and had a euro bracket mounted from the factory (Why Crewe was slapping Euro plate holders to cars originally delivered to North America is yet another unsolved mystery), I just had a plate fabbed up that was specific to the car.
Without wishing to diss the guys who are happy with their solution, I am with you on this one. I wouldn't be happy to have a rash of warts over the front of my car and would pay to have the holes professionally filled and repainted. I intend to wait a while until I need to take the car to have any stone chips (rock chips) rectified and then I will have the front plate mount removed and go for the stick-on plate you use. That way, the rectification of the plate holes will be a 'free ride' on my stone chip repairs. I generally find that every couple of years or so I have enough stone chips to bug me into getting them fixed. Especially if I have been hooning around on some of our less well-surfaced road network here in the UK.
I expect at sometime I'll be addressing stone chips (or worse, this is Florida after all) and will have those 5 holes properly repaired. In the meantime, I far prefer my 5 little bumps to the giant front plate that was hiding the beautiful front of the car.
I expect at sometime I'll be addressing stone chips (or worse, this is Florida after all) and will have those 5 holes properly repaired. In the meantime, I far prefer my 5 little bumps to the giant front plate that was hiding the beautiful front of the car.
