I have been reading the posts on the license plate postion in the front and have come to on conclusion. Go downtown and complain that my PT. Crusier didn't come from the dealer with a plate bracket so why should I add one.
Exempt ALL Pt.C from having to deal with where to put the plate. My wife and I just bought a vanilla colored 2007 with 20,000 miles on it two weeks ago. It is in perfect looking shape but Texas gets pretty anal about those license plates. We have to mount ours or get fined. It's inevitable to get the ticket and pretty quick I might add.
So I went to my friendly Advance Auto parts store and found a license plate holder that was different and universal.
My 11 year old daughter...I needed small little hands to help me put the license plate on the lower right passanger side. The black plastic grille going across the lower part of the car is not very solid but I bought a license plate holder that is chrome with about 10 inch by 1 inch brackets with long slots in them that are adjustable by allen screws on the outer edge of the 90 angle bend where they are attached together. I found a flat car antenna bracket that was just as long with holes spaced about an inch apart. I put 4 screws with nuts on them and had my daughter run her arm and bracket behind the lower grill and attach one of the slotted brackets on the outside of the grill to it and put nuts on it to hold it in place. Putting bolts on the bracket of the inside area of the grill allowed for space for the thickness of the grill as not to crush it.
We then bolted to top holes in the plate to the other bracket that comes with allen type screws that look great and custom. Then we matched up the holes of each bracket on the sides and put the allen head screws in and postioned the plate parallel to the body. The plate sticks about and inch out from the body. It looks good but the curve of the body makes the plate look like it's facing towards the outside of the car a bit. My daughter thinks it looks cool and I think it looks like it's floating and hot rod like. My wife says it looks stupid that way. My response was after reading this forum and the way the plastic bumper would hold it in the middle there is no discussion about moving it!
I keep hearing inter cooler and blocking it with a lincense plate. This is for a turbo type engine pt.C right? Ours is not a turbo model. The brakes and air getting to it is another concern but we put the plate far right but not covering the outer light area as the older pt. C have.
