finally broke down and spent a lil over a buck to cover the holes from the license plate I removed. After walking through half the dang Lowes store, I found the hardware aisle and found the plugs, put two coats of touch up paint on them and plugged them into the bumper, the size is 3/8. Well worth it in my opinion. I remember a thread about someone asking how to cover them, searched and I couldn't find it so I hope they see this thread. here's pics.

before:


after: and yes, my car is dirty......but the rain won't stop long enough to clean it up.

 

IIRC it was shift_2kmaxima that was wondering about that.

 

looks better good job

 

How long were the 3/8 plugs you bought? Did you just push them in or had to pound them to get them flush??? Are they made of plastic? I have been wanting to do this to mine. I have been running without my front liscense plate for two years in Ohio( which requires you to have both a front/rear plate) but have never gotten pulled over for not having one on front.. Thanks for you input and it looks good....

 

thanks guys. they are plastic, they are about half an inch long, and they push right in with your thumb. Really ez to do and they have a little tab to keep them from coming back out. I was really surprised how the paint matched up.

I think the box I got them out of was marked plugs. I thought about asking someone, but you know we don't like asking for help/ directions... lol

 

very nice, thanks for the tip

 

I also am glad I plugged my holes up too. After removing the license plate, the two holes constantly annoyed me.

 

Sounds geat and I would like to do this but you can still see the plugs where the holes are in your picture.

 

Hmm, I need to do this in the spring. Can you post pics of these plugs you bought?

 

yes, well, the only other option is having hte holes filled by a bodyshop and having your whole bumper painted. I figure that would cost $250-300. And I might do this later on, but for now, I'll go with the $1.38 and save some money. This is alot better than having two holes in your bumper in my opinion. To each his own though.

 

Yeah I was also one of those people who was looking for that. Hey can you post closer pics?

 

These are 1/2 inch as you can see, I wasn't sure of the correct size so I bought a couple different plug sizes. Use 3/8 though.

 

is this better?

 

glad the 4rth gens aren't that noticeable

 

Yeah!!! thanks a lot. You saved lots of time for all of us by finding what we needed. Great job.

 

Cool. Thanks man.

 

I'm just glad I could help a few peeps finally, lol. I am usually just take take take take and copy copy copy copy..... I thought this might help a few guys, guess I should have named the thread differently so people could search for it. oh wait.........what am I talking about, noone searches anymore...... look at all the seafoam threads the last couple weeks...... LMAO

 

thank you sir! i've been searching for almost an hour for a thread like this and i almost overlooked it due to your title gonna go shopping for those things this weekend and need some touch up paint too

 

wtf, I dont see no picture.

 

I wish I could ride w/o my front plate, down here in Houston the cops come to the car, get your id and insurance check both of your tags and make sure you got the plate, then you just wait 5 mins and pray you just got a written warning lol

 

I picked up a couple of plastic plugs from AZ or Advance, I can't remember. They are black plastic and are found in the hardware/trim pieces section. I left mine black but I'm sure they will take touch up paint.

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=397429

 

try IE........

 

ok so i just wanted to test it out and today i bought some screw plugs for the holes...i bought a small bottle of artic white paint and painted those plugs...matches about 90% so far how do you make them stay on? i don't want to use super glue. but i think i bought wrong ones...it's just a plastic tab that goes on to those philips screws =/

 

Nicely done

 

Pretty good job, but your camera svx. White Balances way off big time made your car like three different color...OMG...

 

A co-worker of mine just cut out a couple squares of electrical tape, hit it with some spray paint, and slapped them over the holes. Walking up to the car in a parking lot, you couldn't even tell they were there unless someone pointed them out. It's been over 3 years now and still going strong.

 

that looks pretty good <heads to lowe's>
thanks