Hicko
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This actually a good point I'd not thought of.
GR86 What things to ask before delivery?
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KobayashiMaru86
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On my call they said they could leave the transport stickers on and leave me to remove them. Plates will be stuck on and not drilled too.
86GR
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Is it a case you will just leave them stuck on or do you want to drill the holes yourself?
grzoostuff
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I think I'm going to ask them not to wash the car and to also leave the delivery stickers on.
KobayashiMaru86
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Stuck on. I want nothing drilled. At least if they stick them and inevitably don't fit them straight I can sort fairly easily.
86GR
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It might be difficult to stick it on though as it looks like there is only a very narrow strip that a number plate holder is normally bolted to, then the plate is attached to the holder. Did you intend sticking the plate holder on, then sticking the plate to that or just sticking the plate direct to the bumper?
KobayashiMaru86
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If like the GT86, the holder is part of the front grill. Sticking to that won't be an issue. I'm more worried about them drilling into the rear bumper.
86GR
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Looking at pics from US it’s separate. Agree rear will easy to stick on.
KobayashiMaru86
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Plate is sticking on to this no issue. This is from the UK press articles
86GR
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I might be wrong but I think in that pic somebody has already screwed that holder into the bumper (they’ll have different size holders for each country). From the factory I think they’ll come with a narrow strip as shown below…
JonBon
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I guess the question is how will they attach the license plate holder to the bumper?
AndyRC
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From the pictures in the US it appears that strip is moulded into the grill
At least we will get a chance to look at demo cars before customer cars arrive to see how TUK are fixing plates
It will be bolted onto that small section I reckon.
First thing I will do is stick a 3/4 sized plate on the front and ditch the brick number plate mount.
Dal3D
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I've got a 5 digit plate going on mine so will be doing something similar.
People don't realise but as long as there's an 11mm minimum amount of bare plate between the characters and the edge of the plate, then it's legal. if there are only 5 digits, a shorter plate is perfectly legal!
I might buy another plate mount - cut the middle out and mount that. Depends how it looks though.
JonBon
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I'm not sure I'm too bothered about what they do with the plates. With my current car, I got rid of the front mounting brick and used a 3/4 plate for a while, which fitted almost perfectly stuck directly to the front bumper. Heard that the fines for running a non-standard plate were to go up substantially though, so went back to a normal palte - but still left it attached directly to the bumper, rather than the mounting block.
But the front mounting block on the new model looks much less obnoxious (going by those press shots). So I think I'd be inclined to leave it. Even if not, shouldn't be difficult to take it off and attach the plate directly with tape.
But the front mounting block on the new model looks much less obnoxious (going by those press shots). So I think I'd be inclined to leave it. Even if not, shouldn't be difficult to take it off and attach the plate directly with tape.
AndyRC
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A lot of interesting comments coming out on mounting , legality etc , so created a separate thread here
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Ive seen a few “supercars” lately not running a front plate , no doubt it’s stowed Somewhere to show that “it fell off officer “
plus a few that had obviously Been on a boil wash by the size of them 
GR86 - The number plate thread
The place to discuss all things number plate related , fixing , legality, show plates etc . @Polymorphic has already got a thread going for Registration Numbers so try and keep that just for the actual registration numbers folk may have for their GR86...
www.gr-zoo.com
Ive seen a few “supercars” lately not running a front plate , no doubt it’s stowed Somewhere to show that “it fell off officer “
plus a few that had obviously Been on a boil wash by the size of them
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Dal3D
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Well if you had "A1" then it'd be much smaller than "BK06YUB" for example. 11mm border between characters and edge of the plate is the legality. As well as spacing, character font etc of course.
LukeC22
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I might be in a minority here but I’m not a fan of shorter plates. I feel they look a bit odd, especially on the front as there’s usually a “standard” size backplate and it sticks out like a sore thumb if a shorter plate is on it.
Regarding the front plate fixings, they seem to be different in each region as the Japanese ones are more square (akin to their license plates) so I’m sure we’ll get one similar to the UK press shots rather than the little strip on the US spec cars.
The rear usually has pre-moulded holes (at least the cars I’ve had) so hopefully, they can’t bugger up the fixing of that haha.
As for the OP, I’ll probably just ask them to not wash it or remove the transport stickers etc.
when it comes to fuel, I assume that will be a dealer thing and they certainly won’t be using premium so I’ll just take it as is then pop to the petrol station myself.
Regarding the front plate fixings, they seem to be different in each region as the Japanese ones are more square (akin to their license plates) so I’m sure we’ll get one similar to the UK press shots rather than the little strip on the US spec cars.
The rear usually has pre-moulded holes (at least the cars I’ve had) so hopefully, they can’t bugger up the fixing of that haha.
As for the OP, I’ll probably just ask them to not wash it or remove the transport stickers etc.
when it comes to fuel, I assume that will be a dealer thing and they certainly won’t be using premium so I’ll just take it as is then pop to the petrol station myself.
Dal3D
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^ Very true. I had a shorter plate on the back of my car for my 5 digit plate but took it off after a week or two as I thought it looked a bit weird.
