hey jp, I saw a pretty cool idea where to put it before... someone attached a mount to the rad and then mounted it onto that, just in front of the rad but behind the bumper. You would of course have to remove your lower grill...

I'll try and find that pic for you.

 

Put it in the garage, where it belongs

 

[QUOTE=DC52NV;2071519]what part of cali do you live in? cops here will still write you a fix it ticket. my bud told the officer that he didn't have any holes to mount it. officer offered to punch some holes w/ his pen if he needs help.

i live close to the mexican border... nobody really hassles with stuff like that but they are crackin down pretty hard on illegal exhaust... but yeah nobody really drives around with the front liscence plate down here

 

im getting a new bumper too...im just not gonna mount one.....i didnt have one on my orange one and i never had problems with it

 

You can get pulled over here for that I believe.

I would just put in back where it belongs so you don't have to deal with being pulled over. That just gives them an excuse to do it!

 

I put a bc2 body kit on my car and got pulled over for not having the liscense displayed. They told me to attach it and that when i got to court they will let me off. I dont want to drill into the bumper cause its fibreglass so i decided to use some double sided extra strength foam tape. It loooks great and the plate has been on for nearly 6 months. Snow, rain, wind...the plate is on solid. If you plan on taking the plate off though be prepared to repaint the part where the plate was though

 

Not sure if there is enough room or not but maybe it could fit in the lower grille area? That or maybe make a custom grille by cutting the middle bracket out of the bumper and then mount it to the grille. Both of these idea are going to restrict airflow but thats the only idea i can come up with that is still legal the doesnt involve drilling holes into the bumper

 

mount it to one side so it doesnt restrict airflow. It'd put it on the passangeer side.

OR buy this!
http://www.skene.org/bmw/plate/

this may work, im not sure.

 

Badass! I hope that works for our cars cuz I want it!

 

i put mine on my passenger visor so that when its folded down its visable from the outside, and folded up its visable in the car only, give that a try and see if you like that

 

Passenger side sun visor...

Dang u beat me to ...

 

yes sir, if i had my car around id post a pic, but im getting a new motor so its in the shop, but its held on there with one of those sun visor cd holders

 

i took a picture of the license plate and then made a 100% size decal of it. Stick it on. 100% solution

 

it will work if you dont have the 2.4 lower grill. i just went outside and looked. if you notch the 2.4 grill it would work

 

I'd want to mount it under the lower s/c lip

 

thats actually not a bad idea! i never even thought of that

 

Here is what i did. Its held in to the metal bar behind the bumper and comes out. kinda like the one they sell, but i made mine out of scrap metal i had lying around. And yes, i will be taking it off to clean it and paint it.

 

I don't even know where my front plate is

 

Update! got the car back today! my buddy jefferyss down at the collistion center did a licenseplate bracket mount for me as a suprise and it turned out awesome!! its in the lower grill, ill get pics come tomorrow!!

 

Dear god, please dont.

Cobalt = not JDM, lol.

 

I recieved a 10 day for not havn mine on. So I took the Lic plate put on a straight line like a work bench or whatever and folded the plate on top and bottom of the plate #. Ill try and post pics tomm.

 

Pics dude!

 

i cut mine to fit in the little spot. ppl give good comments about it and its legal!! whoo hoo

 

nice COBALTlove

i've seen this before but i always thought it was illegal, is it str8 as long as the numbers/letters are showing??

love the side stripes btw

 

here's how i did mine.. 2 L brackets.