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Use heavy duty velco[both sides have hooks}
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I used heavy duty velco[both sides have hooks} to stick my rear plates back on.
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Do as you want with old plate, but you can remove sticky remnants off the car paint using white spirit etc.
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I have just purchased a private registration number and need to remove the old number plates.
I would think the front plates are fairly easy as they are held on with screws and double sided pads.The rears are just held on with double sided pads.
Do I just pull the old plates off as carefully as possible and what is the best method of removing the old pads from the bodywork.
Thanks in advance.
Fronts
: unscrew as you suggest
Rears
: wedge your fingers over the back of the number plate (where you can feel the double sided pads) and slowly lever the plate away.
The pads usually tear in the foam layer leaving both the car and old plate with sticky side still attached.
Do as you want with old plate, but you can remove sticky remnants off the car paint using white spirit etc.
You may wish to clean and dry the whole area before re-affixing new plate.
Dental floss is good for getting through the double sided [foam?] tape and then remove the glue residue with Degreaser/WD40/lighter fluid.
I used heavy duty velco[both sides have hooks} to stick my rear plates back on.
TB
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Did you ever hear about the kids who went up to a camera van on the roadside? While two of them got chatting to the policeman in the back the other two nicked the front plate, put it on their car and kept going past the camera van at high speed, round the block again and again!!! This meant the camera van kept booking itself :mrgreen:
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