Sorry if this has been talked about, but this site runs very slow on my computer and it takes forever to search.

I'm moving to Virginia and will need to have a front license plate on my Max.

Question - What's the best way to mount one? I'm assuming there is a plastic bracket I could buy that bolts to the front, and the plate attaches to it, correct? Any other, cleaner thoughts on how to do it?

Also, if I do need to get one of those brackets, anyone know where or who I can get one from for cheap?

Thanks!

 

http://nissanpartsasap.com/nissanpar...intVehid=12863

less than 10 bucks, OEM front plate bracket.


part 62740 in the above diagram for your 2009 SV


And from a fellow front-plate stater...I'm sorry

 

Oh that's awesome, thank you so much! And a just as heart felt "I'm sorry" right back to you! Stupid laws making making the good-looking front of our cars all clogged up with crap!

 

If I were you, I would get the show and go license plate. If you like the no license look, get this and when a cop pulls you over, simply pull it out and your good.

 

That's interesting... is this something done legally? Like through the DMV?

 

hahaha NO.

He's referring to a front plate holder that's motorized...made for car shows and what-not...you can drive (and show the car) with teh plate not showing, but when you need the plate to show flip a switch and the motor folds the plate out and it's visible.

They run around 150 bucks iirc

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Ahhhhh, got ya. I just googled it. Very cool idea, but I can see with my luck, I'd get pulled over, flip it upright, and the cop would go rip it off my car LOL

Looks like I'm tapping into my beautiful baby's front bumper...

 

By the way, Amerikaner, love the Avatar! What jet is that?

 

haha thanks

That's the F-22 Raptor flying over Seattle. When I worked at Boeing (who builds the wings for the F-22), one of my coworkers had a big poster of it in his cubicle...he emailed me the picture and I've had it for years.

 

another member took his OEM license plate bracket, flipped it upside down and trimmed it some, and has his plate mounted off-center down by the lower grill area, zip tied on. looks nice and barely cost a thing, as well as doesnt ruin the smooth look of the front bumper

 

Hey Ghozt! I was looking at doing that too but what do you zip tie to? Thx!

 

Pretty sure just around the middle black bar in the opening at the bottom.

 

i think he drilled a few holes in the bracket and then zip tied through those holes on the bracket to the black plastic "lower grill" fin thing whatever that is down there. may help to get some kind of weather stripping or rubber feet if it touches your paint anywhere, to keep it from scratching it up.

i have mine needing to be done too, ive been lazy and just jammed the plate in my front windshield on the inside

 

Lol ya sounds good! And what to do with the drilled holes in the bumper? :S

 

there are little plugs you can get at autozone or pepboys. some people rock black but ive seen em painted to match the car. nothings perfect but it can be much cleaner

 

that is a very nice sig photo you got there sir. lol

 

Thanks! I like the silver 7thgen in front of me better though!

 

Very nice! Probably should have known that... I work for a direct competitor of Boeing and we make a lot of the flight controls for the F-22... shame on me...

Do we have any pics of this? I definitely want it to look as clean and un-bulky as possible.

Do we know if the 2 indents in the front bumper match up to the holes in the license plate? Could I just get a nice looking license plate frame and bolt it directly to the bumper instead of using a bulky bracket? Or would that be WAY to convenient? lol

 

lol you got Vossens be quiet, if i ever move to dubs they're gonna be Vossens

here's a pic of the bracket trimmed (courtesy of C.Zulauf)


so its flipped upside down, trimmed, has a few holes for zip ties, and is zip tied cleanly on the driver side lower grill area. just use something to protect the paint where it touches the car

i dont think those two indents match up to anything but a bracket. if you mounted the plate directly there though it'd cover them up so wouldnt really matter, but you'd need some pilot holes drilled for the plate mounting screws

 

Thx for the pics Ghozt! That helps a lot.. I'll post pics when I finish this project as well..

 

As info, when I was looking over a dozen or so '09s with my Nissan dealer's internet manager back in late 2008, we checked out the trunk in three of them, and there was a front bumper license plate holder with all necessary brackets, screws, etc, in a plastic bag in the trunk of each of those three Maximas. When my '09 arrived, it also had that same bag with bracket, frame, screws, etc in the trunk.

 

I would not be surprised if, within the next ten to fifteen years, front tags become mandatory in all states. I say that because more and more police departments are now running with these new tag reading devices in their patrol cars.

These devices can read several tags per second on cars in all lanes near the patrol car, EVEN ONCOMING LANES. Not only can these things read tag numbers, but instantly match them against a computerized list of wanted tags, and alerts the officer when it gets a 'hit'.

As I see it, our best hope in avoiding front tags in every state will be the inevitable arrival of tags with transponders that will respond to any patrol car's computer query. Once that system arrives, front tags will be unnecessary anywhere.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190656128294...#ht_2481wt_689

 

show n go @ amazon for $45

have to trim the finds in the lower grill a little but its awesome WAY better then spending money on a OEM and trying to fiddle with it for an hour or two

simple 2 bolts and cut the center fin on the lower grill on TOP and bang your done