Japanese plate
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Racebrewer
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The rectangular plastic piece on the front bumper pops off and there are a bunch of holes that don't line up with American license plates.
No front plates in Michigan?
In theory to mount an American front plate you either drill holes in the body or the plate itself or buy a $75 bracket. I made my own from a block of aluminum.
John
No front plates in Michigan?
In theory to mount an American front plate you either drill holes in the body or the plate itself or buy a $75 bracket. I made my own from a block of aluminum.
John
Wow. Seriously? I doubt there was one other person that visited this thread that thought to themselves, "'Japanese plate'?! That's RACIST!"
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"Wow. Seriously? I doubt there was one other person that visited this thread that thought to themselves, "'Japanese plate'?! That's RACIST!"
Actually, there is at least one other who thought that it might be open to misinterpretation.
By itself, I wouldn't see it as intentionally racist, especially coming from someone who bought a Japanese car. However, there have been occasions when it has been used as a slur. In the bigger picture, in the history of mankind there hasn't been any term that hasn't, at one time or another, been used improperly to lessen the status of others. Gender, age, country of birth, ethnicity, religion, politics, etc, etc, etc......
Just as we caution those to be careful around others who may have just suffered a personal loss, so as not to say anything without thought, this is just one area where we need to be careful to respect others.
One of the problems with the internet is that you can't hear the tone of what people are saying. It just means we need to be even more careful in our approach and selection of terms. Believe me, I've suffered from fumble fingers myself..... many times.
John
P.S. As a white, over-weight, old guy, of Irish Catholic heritage who worked in a Federal Law Enforcement position for 33 years, I'm extremely grateful nobody ever said anything demeaning about any of that<LOL>
Actually, there is at least one other who thought that it might be open to misinterpretation.
By itself, I wouldn't see it as intentionally racist, especially coming from someone who bought a Japanese car. However, there have been occasions when it has been used as a slur. In the bigger picture, in the history of mankind there hasn't been any term that hasn't, at one time or another, been used improperly to lessen the status of others. Gender, age, country of birth, ethnicity, religion, politics, etc, etc, etc......
Just as we caution those to be careful around others who may have just suffered a personal loss, so as not to say anything without thought, this is just one area where we need to be careful to respect others.
One of the problems with the internet is that you can't hear the tone of what people are saying. It just means we need to be even more careful in our approach and selection of terms. Believe me, I've suffered from fumble fingers myself..... many times.
John
P.S. As a white, over-weight, old guy, of Irish Catholic heritage who worked in a Federal Law Enforcement position for 33 years, I'm extremely grateful nobody ever said anything demeaning about any of that<LOL>
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Alright, thanks again. I'll have to take it off this weekend and see how I'm going to fan dangle the plate on there.
Which plastic piece are we referring to? All I have is the empty square where a front tag would go.... would be kinda nice to a filler for it actually.
Oh and this.
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Oh and this.
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When I first saw the title of this thread I didn't get offended personally, but it did stick out at me and I thought "that's not cool."
Yeah, let's just drop it. The OP didn't mean anything by it, no one should have ripped him for it, I shouldn't have put my 2 cents in, and everyone alive today is conditioned to be completely overly sensitive to everything.
Can everyone just dry their tears and limit the posts in this thread to relevant info on how the OP can mount his Japanese Domestic Market License Plate to his Mazda 2?
Can everyone just dry their tears and limit the posts in this thread to relevant info on how the OP can mount his Japanese Domestic Market License Plate to his Mazda 2?
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Racebrewer
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Take a look at this Corksport license plate kit photo that shows the front of the car. A couple inches below the (M) emblem on the hood is a black rectangular blanking plate located in the top middle of the grill. Pretty horizontal in shape. The plate 'pop's off' with a bit of yanking and there are a series of mounting holes under it. The holes don't fit anything that I know of.
http://www.corksport.com/corksport-license-plate-kit.html
If I recall correctly, the dealer told us that the blanking plate came with the car. He also 'thought' that there was an actual bracket ($75) available to mount the license plate in the spot that the blanking plate goes. Apparently most dealers just drill a couple holes in the bumper and screw the plate on.
John
http://www.corksport.com/corksport-license-plate-kit.html
If I recall correctly, the dealer told us that the blanking plate came with the car. He also 'thought' that there was an actual bracket ($75) available to mount the license plate in the spot that the blanking plate goes. Apparently most dealers just drill a couple holes in the bumper and screw the plate on.
John
