Rear plate

[Matt Nova]

Picking up my smooth boot on friday and need a place to put my rear plate and keep it light.

Thought about cutting into bumper and adding another light upside down

or

double sided sticky tape and put plate in same position as is now

btw i have a standard rear bumper

any ideas?

[Potswalker]

its not an easy problem. when i had a standard bumper i just screwed it right at the bottom of the bumper to make the car look lower without actually lowering it! :roll:
at the minute i've lit it with a clear side repeated lense on a slight angle. you just get a bulb holder from a side light from a scrappy and a numberplate light can be any colour and its legal!
http://www.novaload.net/features/viewfeature.php?ref=1778
liking blue at the minute :P

[--roybacer--]

dont put it where it was originally. no point smoothing boot off if ur gonna do that(my opinion anyway)
the law says u cannot have a white light displaying outwards from the back of a car unless its for reversing. thats y number plate lights have that shroud around them.
u can get inserts to go into ur bumper for the plate. dont ask me where!

[Potswalker]

enough people do stick it back onto the boot but your right it does seem like what was the point!

[Matt Nova]

i was only gunna stick it there as a temp until i got a different rear bumper with a recess

[Potswalker]

nope thats not good enough...be ashamed
:D
if you dont need to get it through an mot then just fix it to the rear bumper. never got stopped for mine

[Matt Nova]

What did ya do with the light? Not bothered bout fixing it to rear bumper as long as it's lighted i don't care

[Potswalker]

What did ya do with the light? Not bothered bout fixing it to rear bumper as long as it's lighted i don't care

as much as i hate myself for doing it cant ignore 'lighted'...lit?
when it was on the bumper it wasn't light at all but it never bothered me, especially if your looking for another bumper.
the boot is much easier if you want to keep it legal :|

[Potswalker]

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What did ya do with the light? Not bothered bout fixing it to rear bumper as long as it's lighted i don't care


as much as i hate myself for doing it cant ignore 'lighted'...lit?
when it was on the bumper it wasn't light at all but it never bothered me, especially if your looking for another bumper.
the boot is much easier if you want to keep it legal

I'm a fool!!! :oops:

like i said lit... :roll:

[Matt Nova]

WTF? i wanna keep the plate illuminated then any idea? what about those light bolts? are those strong enough

[Potswalker]

i think there was a post about this a little while ago and somebody said about using those washer jes(w@nker lights) because they are very direct so wouldn't shine at other cars?

[Matt Nova]

i've got some spare wa*ker lights (would not put them on my car :lol: ) which might do the trick they're white tho?

[Benn]

spend the weekend cutting it in 2 the bumper mate
having it stuck on looks shite,
cut in will look sweet

[scottn]

Buy a bumper with a recess allready innit.

just remembered i`ve got one in my kitchen.

[J4MES]

just recess it in the middle or to the side as an import size plate...then if its recessed you can use a normal number plate light....

[Matt Nova]

in the end i screwed to the middle of the back bumper used some lights fixed to the sides of the plate looks alrite but the plates not exactly in the middle lol

[scottn]

looks alright for now.

[Matt Nova]

lol cheers mate