How do I hide a screw hole in a plastic front bumper?

[southpaw]

I've ordered a cut down number plate for my car (its a 6 character number plate), and the new plate will be about 33cm long. However, having taken off my old number plates today, I noticed the screw holes are quite far apart...38cm apart actually!

The new plate will be held on by sticky pads so fixing isn't an issue, but does anyone have a tidy solution to hiding the holes? The best I can think of is using a little plastic grommet/dome type thing and paint the caps with touch up paint but I've got no idea where to get some? Any other solutions - I can't be the only one with this problem!

[DanGPR]

Get a replacement numberplate screw set from Halfords.

They come with yellow/black screw caps.

You have a black car, luckily, so use the black ones

[Fort Jefferson]

Unless the number has a few 1's in it, it will be bigger than 33cm.

Unless it's illegal?

[southpaw]

Fort Jefferson said:

Unless the number has a few 1's in it, it will be bigger than 33cm.

Unless it's illegal?

Perfectly legal, the number on the plate is 11 so nice and short

DanGPR said:

Get a replacement numberplate screw set from Halfords.

They come with yellow/black screw caps.

You have a black car, luckily, so use the black ones

I'm a bit reluctant to put screws back in as getting the old one's out was a nightmate - of the 4 old screws, two has rusted away due to the little caps not sealing properly. I tried for 20 mins then took the car to Honda and it took one of the mechanics about 25 mins to get the screws out!

Edited by southpaw on Wednesday 29th December 17:50

[DanGPR]

Bit of vaseline or grease on the threads and in the head stops it from coroding.

[southpaw]

Good idea!

[CoolC]

If it's a black car, try black silicone?

[stainless_steve]

Would this work ?

http://www.grommets.co.uk/documents/products/plugs...

[stainless_steve]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RUBBER-BLANKING-GROMMETS-VAR...

[southpaw]

stainless_steve said:

Would this work ?

http://www.grommets.co.uk/documents/products/plugs...

They look like the right kind of thing, just need to work out what size hole is. Not sure if they would sell me 2 though!

Does anyone know if B&Q would stock something like this?

[stainless_steve]

Maybe you need two free samples before you place your huge order