license plate
- Thread starter biondos1
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MSpeed2397
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- 2003.5 Speed Protege
I haven't had a front license plate for god knows how long. I'm always curteous to the 5-0 so I haven't caught any s*** about it yet. I might try the windshield if I were you.
Boosted03MSP
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- 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege Black Mica #928
Mine is in the lower grill, but i dont have a FMIC. So for you i say buy an evo bracket from a mitsu dealer and put it on the side of the bumper. thats what my gay honda friends do.
Read your post and thought of this, not a bad idea:
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123657164
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123657164
my car came with a front license plate bracket cause i bought the car in texas. im not going to use it if you need it pm me your info and i can send it to you. i took it off cause i dont need one here in arizona. you'll have to take of the bumper and it goes in the middle of the bumber, it does cover the fmic a little bit but u can always put it on the side. let me know. kelvin
Well I finally got pulled over for no front plate. I have drove my mazda for almost a year and a half now. I am also thinking of ideas for where to put a plate. I just got custom plates also. If I am gonna pay for two plates might as well use them both. I might toy around with a way to mount it by where the fog light would go on the driver side. I have an 03.5 so no fog lights.
ms03protege
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- 2003 MSP #694 and 2005 Explorer
Here is what I did with mine. Doesn't block the fog light and exposes much more of the FMIC.
The bracket is a cheap ebay thing found here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LICE...tegoryZ36475QQihZ012QQitemZ220073754160QQrdZ1
The bracket is a cheap ebay thing found here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LICE...tegoryZ36475QQihZ012QQitemZ220073754160QQrdZ1
I have yet to prove this theory in a real world situation.... but upon having a similar conversation with a friend of mine, he brought up an interesting point. Having your liscence plate sitting up by the windshield may be fine in your day to day driving. However during a high speed collision your running the risk of having a flat, relatively sharp, metal projectile flying at you. Now this could be BS, but I for one would not care to remove a liscence plate from my forehead.
The body shop forgot to use the hardware I had supplied to attach the license bracket from the inside, so I have to take my front bumper off in order to remove my front plate and bracket 
After that first $250 ticket I got for no front plate on my 240, I said it wasn't worth it.
After that first $250 ticket I got for no front plate on my 240, I said it wasn't worth it.
thaikim said:
Well for it to acually strike you in the head with enough force to do serious damage you would have to be t-boned in the driver side, and in a car as small as ours im sure the lp would be the least of your worries. Get double sided tape or just go put it on the bumper where its suposed to be.
blazinrola80
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- msp 03
mines on my windshield but it annoying with awr mounts vibrtions....i got pulled fo non visable ft plate then he sees it on the dash p-officer says. why is your plate in the car..response becuz it was blocking air to my radiator(fmic) thus casing my car to over heat!..member cops are cops not mechanics... he gave me 4 tints.45 buks wat ever...
