[ds968]

[quote name='Tom030' timestamp='1387412794' post='153664']. Curious if D.S. has ever been pulled over for his front plate..[/quote]



Once only, in 35 years of driving daily with faux German front plates ( started placing those on my MBZs and then on the 944s before I got the 968 ). Fix-it ticket, I went to the local police station had it " corrected " , and after the officer went back into the building I changed it again to the German plate , right there in the police station parking lot ! I'm not kidding, did not even ha e the patience to wait until I got home, lol. Nothing since. But, I have not had a ticket since 1987, so probably the reason why. I do hear an occasional story here and there about people being given those kind of tickets but it's almost always when they get pulled over for an entirely different reason first. Out of every 10 " sports " cars in California ( well, NorCal anyway ) it seems 1 or maybe 2 at the most have front license plates. If drivers would be stopped just for that , the entire police workforce in this state would not have time for anything else. But in all these years I've seen only one car with a rear "German" license plate . It was a Porsche . I would not recommend you do that, I bet you won't drive more than a couple of days before you get pulled over.

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[Gotter]

.....unless you were in Germany......

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[ds968]

Ha, true. Back to euro corner lens and mini-bumpers ; as I mentioned earlier I prefer the bumpers look , but have never seen the rear of the car without them until now. Not bad at all ! That said, the rear bumpers do have a significant advantage: when backing into a public parking space where you have to get it as close as possible to the garage wall , at maybe 1 mph, and misjudging where you need to stop will likely cause $ 1,000 worth of damage to the car without the bumperettes and zero damage with them. Talking about a family member driving your car, or a valet parking it, and so on - one of us would never make that mistake , LOL

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[flash]

that is exactly why they are there.

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[rxter]

Some yutz rolled into the back of my car in LA at a light about 2 weeks after I got the first cab. Bounced off the rear bumperette - no damage. No chance I'll remove them now <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" />



Got popped the other day for a fixit ticket (front plate and window tint). Like you said Dan I got pulled for speeding (80 on the freeway in morning rush - idiot could have pulled over 50 cars within 100 feet of us). He "warned" me about the speed but I guess he needed to flex his d*ck so he wrote the fixit ticket. Idiot. Fortunately my tint guy has a plan for when I get the citation - will cost me but not destroy my tint. What we need is more violent crime in Orange County so that the cops would have something to do with their time.

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[ds968]

I'm not looking forward to the day I'll get a window tint ticket, on my "new" car the tint looks outstanding vis-a-vis the car's color. And whichever shop in New Mexico installed the tint did such a great job that it looks completely factory, even from a nose length away . Sigh...it will have to come off sooner or later, my luck with not getting stopped for anything in decades and decades can't continue much longer...can it ?! And yes, I DO buy lottery tickets but never win.

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[flash]

i got nailed for the euro plate a long time ago. they impounded it. that was the sole reason i got pulled over too. he didn't even mention anything else. really surprised me at the time. found out later he had just been served divorce papers.

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[Bulti]

Here we are, with smaller old-style Belgian plate. The newer ones are a bit larger. Don't mind the BlackBerry-quality...





   

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[flash]

yeah - our plate looks just as "lost" in that big space. the other issue is that we have cutouts where the bumperettes go.

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[Bulti]

I'm used to this look, very much like Americans are used to the bumperettes. The new plates here contain an extra digit and hyphen, wich makes it longer.



The less plate the better IMO. But CA plates are more quadrangular I suppose?

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[flash]

yup - like i said though, the big problem for us is that our bumper cover has big holes in it where the bumperettes go through and connect to the bumper behind the bumper cover. euro bumper covers are solid, with no big holes.

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[Bulti]

Couldn't that be 'fixed' with some fiberglass and a repaint of that area?

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[flash]

not well. polyurethane is difficult to patch like that. it can be done, but it takes somebody really good at it. the holes are huge (60mm square)

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[bombfactory]

Just like to add that the euro corners don't fit perfectly flush with the fogs without a little fiddling with the dremel tool. It's not a hard job and I posted a DIY somewhere of what I did when I installed mine.

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[flash]

odd - i didn't have that problem at all. fit perfectly

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[ds968]

[quote name='flash' timestamp='1387498480' post='153705']odd - i didn't have that problem at all. fit perfectly[/quote]



Lol, given the countless number of 968s you worked on, haven't you yet come to the conclusion that nothing fits exactly the same in any of them ?! Damn hand-built cars !

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[Tomikaze]

I had the same fit problem. I used bombfactorys DIY and the fit is 95% perfect.

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[flash]

that's so weird. i've been seeing these lenses for almost 10 years now, and have installed a bunch of them. they all slipped right in and fit perfectly, matching the profile exactly. this is the first i have heard of an issue. after all, they are an OEM part. none of the euro cars look wrong. i wonder if they changed vendor?

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[paulzebo]

I must be missing something in the post. What would be the part numbers for these lenses and are they still available?

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[flash]

don't know the part numbers off hand. sunset still had them the last time i checked.

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