Number Plate Help

[TripNip]

Riiiight, noobie needs help.

Got a personalised plate for my birthday, just come through the other day. Got to work today and in a quiet period got one of the engineers to come over and have a look as it's got ridiculous screws in it. (Tri-wing or something)

Given me a special head for it, but the problem is... It feels like the screws are held on by a clip of some sort on the back, thus not letting you un-screw them. And there's no way I can reach it either...

Basically my question is do I have to take off the entire bumper to get behind the plate. How much do you recon renault would charge me to do this? And could I do it on my own...?

 

[Karl]

Riiiight, noobie needs help.

Got a personalised plate for my birthday, just come through the other day. Got to work today and in a quiet period got one of the engineers to come over and have a look as it's got ridiculous screws in it. (Tri-wing or something)

Given me a special head for it, but the problem is... It feels like the screws are held on by a clip of some sort on the back, thus not letting you un-screw them. And there's no way I can reach it either...

Basically my question is do I have to take off the entire bumper to get behind the plate. How much do you recon renault would charge me to do this? And could I do it on my own...?

You will find that they are rivets. You will need to drill them out.

 

[pritchp]

Mines riveted on too!! Annoying isn't it!!

 

[Karl]

Mine are on with velcro :lol:

 

[TripNip]

Bloody anoying! The engineer I borrowed from work had a tool that made the rivet / whatever it is turn and fit into the pattern.

Heavy duty velco ftw. That's what I've got on my bike plates. How does that hold with the curve of the bumper though?

So I need to drill it out?...

 

[Karl]

Bloody anoying! The engineer I borrowed from work had a tool that made the rivet / whatever it is turn and fit into the pattern.

Heavy duty velco ftw. That's what I've got on my bike plates. How does that hold with the curve of the bumper though?

So I need to drill it out?...

Holds perfect no problem had trouble on the diffusser at first but that because i us back to black on it and the oil wasnt letting it stick at first.

And yep you gotta get the drill out on her

 

[TripNip]

Wanna gimme a mini how to?

I mean, just drill into the rivets...? Then when it's off what do I ?

 

[Karl]

Wanna gimme a mini how to?

I mean, just drill into the rivets...? Then when it's off what do I ?

Drill the sentre of the rivet with the smallest drill piece possible and work your way up in size intill you can get it out.

 

[TripNip]

Thanks mate, I appreciate your help...

Final question (I promise )

When I go to sell te car, or trade in for a new one... How do I keep my plate, just re-register it to the old one before the sale?

 

[Karl]

Thanks mate, I appreciate your help...

Final question (I promise )

When I go to sell te car, or trade in for a new one... How do I keep my plate, just re-register it to the old one before the sale?

You would need to put it on retension then you get the orginal plate back and then re-register it to the new car.

 

[HigtonA]

How much is it to register a plate to your car?

I am hopefully going to buy my dads plate off him, then fit it to my car

 

[TripNip]

£80 to re-register with the DVLA. Then there's the actual plate ownership, the plates themselves and a few other hidden charges. But to just change the reg of a vehicle is £80

 

[HigtonA]

hmmm.... i dont understand why it is actually soo expensive :/

 

[singlespeed]

hmmm.... i dont understand why it is actually soo expensive :/

Because there is no other company or agency we can use, added to that, it is a luxury/vanity service so we are over a barrel again

 

[Alex_225]

The plates on both mine and the Mrs cars were just held on with screws.

Now been replaced with double sided tape. Bit of a pain to take off but when needs be, it's cheap enough to replace if you buy a roll of the stuff.