Originally Posted by
tleed
Hmm. After exploring the front end of my car again, I've discovered 3 useful screws/bolts down below the bottom air intake, and the two (or 4) bolts that hold the horns behind the grill.
On my car, the center screw below is missing, along with one of the side screws. So I suppose I need to take off the bottom air shield to see what's going on there and figure out whether any of them can be used.
It puzzles me though that I've only found one other person talking about using the horn bolts to secure a license plate bracket through the grill. Maybe that's not optimal if you're trying to preserve the looks of your car, but here in VA we're accustomed to bulky license plates messing up the lines of our cars. But those horn bolts look like they could easily hold a bracket that suspended the plate in front of the thickest part of the bumper. At any rate, I think that's what I'm going to explore doing: fabricating a bracket that attaches to the horn bolts and pokes out between the grill pieces. Perhaps I'll secure the back of the plate to the bumper with a little 3M tape too for extra stability.
Thomas
Sorry for being blunt on this but it will look pretty bad. Brackets stilling out of brille? Why? Why not just buy the license plate attachment and mount it. Or, buy one of the optional hide aways? If you goal is not to drill, there are a lot of other ways, that aren't expensive, to do this. You could even buy some brackets and mount them under the front lip that extend out and bend them and mount the license plate low, below the bumper. I've seen some do this on the Crossfire and it looks OK and avoids holes in the bumper.
Edit: Look at the link in the previous post for something along the lines I was talking about.