Front plate carrier - Vantage

[johnnnnnnyy]

How easy is it to remove the front plate carrier on a Vantage?
Where is the carrier secured to the bumper and how?

I'l looking at getting a smaller front plate made in prep for my car that arrives next week (waahhoo!!).
So need to know if the plate will have to cover any holes.

[lady topaz]

10 mins, very easy. Just remove existing plate, few screws, bolts and jobs done. Either use heavy duty tape or screw back on using existing pre-drilled holes.

Not that I did it, my OH has, twice.

Di

[GlynMo]

It's easy provided you have the right size torx bit to remove the actual carrier. Leaves 2 holes, but your new plate would have to be considerably smaller than the norm (i.e. illegal) for it not to cover the holes.

[johnnnnnnyy]

Thanks everyone.

Are the holes in the front of the bumper?

Yes its a pretty small plate (eeek!) but it's been on all of my cars, so has to go on the new baby

[amv8jd]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

The above thread is a good one for this, at the bottom is a pictire of what you will see with plate and plinth removed, I intend to tackle this little job tomorrow as the cars without the plinth look infinatley better imo.

[johnnnnnnyy]

amv8jd said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

The above thread is a good one for this, at the bottom is a pictire of what you will see with plate and plinth removed, I intend to tackle this little job tomorrow as the cars without the plinth look infinatley better imo.

let me know how you get on!

P.S. Sorry, looks like this topic had already been covered. The search feature on this forum isn't very good.

[Ballistic Banana]

If you want to drop the plate down to (which I and many others have) so you get full air in through the grill you may want to get a new plate made up as you'll have the old holes in the plate.

BB

[Ballistic Banana]

a pic to show mine

[amv8jd]

I did it this morning in a couple of minutes so wrote a quick tutorial.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Once I get a new plate and give the girl a good wash it will look great, I was affraid of going near her with my grubby spanners but needn't have worried, if I can do it anyone can

[Ice27]

Excellent, thanks James. I think I may do this 'upgrade' this weekend too.
Just need to find out what a Torx T30 is......

[amv8jd]

No worries, T30 refers to the type and size T = a standard Torx bit, 30 = the size

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx