Front number plate???

I have only owned the C4S for a few days and I feel as though I'm posting on here all the time! lol Anyway, the front number plate on my car is held on with these number plate pad things but the sides keep coming off? The UK number plate seems a little bit to big for the bit of plastic its stuck on if that makes any sense? I'm presuming this is a common thing so what do you all do about it? Obviously the OPC I bought the car from may have just done a shite job of putting it on! Cheers

Sounds like you are missing the number plate plinth which sits between number plate and bumper - if all you have are double sided pads trying to hold a flat number plate to a curved bumper then thats your problem. Cost for plinth from OPC is around £ 7.00

How odd. As above, the front number plate should be attached to the car, via a plastic plinth. The plinth should screw to the car and the number plate then screws into the plinth. The number plate, with the EU flag, should fit onto the plinth and not stick out. For the rear number plate, some OPCs stick them on and others screw them in. The front and rear PUs have pre-drilled holes for easy attachment!!! Unfortunately, I got new plates from East Sussex (who kindly drilled the rear number plate holes for me) and I put them onto a car which was supplied by Guildford (who stick them on). I ended up having to stick it on as well, because Guildford did not put any plastic clips for the screws to go into on the rear PU!....I couldn't add them, because the exhaust was in the way, so it would have meant removing the entire PU!!!! You can see the holes in the number plate on the rear of the car unfortunately, but it doesn't seem bad enough to fork out for a new number plate (without holes!)....or the a removal of the PU to fit the plastic plugs!!!

reading gilford's message again maybe it's not the plinth but just that the plate is bigger than the plinth :?: The only reason I picked up on this was the last car I bought had the plinth missing and they had tried to hold down the number plate with the double sided adhesive pads ... my guess is who ever reassembled the bumper after it was re-sprayed didn't know about the plinth (or lost it)

cheers for the replies lads The number plate isn't stuck onto the actual bumper, there is a piece of plastic in between which the plate is stuck on to, put the number plate is a lot bigger than it? I will have a word with the OPC when he ring's me tomorrow about another matter, see what he has to say. I have got a private plate to go on it so it will have to come off, I just wasnt planning on doing it so soon, but if the damn thing is going to fall off............. :frustrated:

I have a C4S also and for the first couple of months of ownership the front plate stuckon with the double sided tape kept coming off. I'd pop back to the selling OPC and they'd stick it back on. They said it usually worked fine and they didn't have problems but gave up on mine eventually and ended up screwing the front plate on! The plinth bit is designed specically for screwing the plate on - also in these days of congesgion charging - have your plates screwed on is a bit more of a deterrant - (its so common them being nicked - though probably less so on a P car)

I had similar problems when i put my private plates on the car. I don't like using screws, and the fresh new plate kept lifting at the ends. In the end i bought the plate inside, bent it into an arc, then duck-taped it to hold it into the shape. Then placed it on the radiator for a while for the heat to do its job. Then took it off, removed the duck tape et voila! Lol, it's been fine ever since... Taran :bandit:

Or just take it off

So if I pop this one off ther ill be screw holes in the plinth for me to screw the number plate to? How will I know where to drill the holes :?:

er, that would be illegal :hand: Once my private plate is on it would be possible to "shorten" the plate but how could I do that neatly? A hack saw would make a right mess!? :?:

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You can go to specialist shops that make specific 'show' plates for cars. These are not supposed to be used on the road and have a disclaimer written on the back of the plate. They can make you a custom size plate. Or...why not just get a tape measure and measure the distance between the pre-drilled holes on the plinth, then mark and centralize this distance on the plate and then drill the holes making sure you have something behind the plate to drill into. Taran :?:

A similar issue exists with the 993. A standrd uk plate is 520mm long IIRC. But the plinth on the font PU on a 993 is 440mm - which means the plate overhangs and looks a bit odd - IMO. I use a plate maker who made me a front plate 440mm long - fits the plinth perfectly. If you click on the hyperlink under my avatar for my car on the left you can just see the shorter front plate in some of the pics. Taran's suggestion for heating it up slightly is a good one as the plates are acrylic so heat will reset the shape, so will fit better on the sharper nose of a 996.

For the front PU no plate plinth you need 2 small white nylon screw holders that clip onto the horizontal slots in the ends of the plinth you then screw the no plate to the holders they cost about 70p each from an opc , or probably any motor factor or pm me and i'll send you 2