

These still require you drill holes in the front of your car, but not in a place that will be seen. The Fast & Furious crowd loves this look. You need to be OK with a plate that is offset from center. The tow eye mount uses a threaded hole on the front of many sporty and premium cars to instead thread in a license plate holder. But the other 99.99% of the time you can use it to install a special license plate mount. This is used to thread a towing eye to haul the car up onto a flatbed tow truck. On premium and sporty cars, there's often a little access panel on the front bumper cover that leads to a large threaded socket.


Some cars are designed so that a front plate must be mounted smack over the grille of the car, looking ugly and disturbing airflow.įront plate laws come down to the needs of police, meter readers and, increasingly, automatic license plate reader cameras that are on official vehicles, at the borders of towns and even built into some smart home camera software.Front plates often don't carry registration stickers, so many drivers find them superfluous.Front plates tend to protrude a bit from the front of the car and get crushed and mangled in parking.The Honda HR-V offers a clean, well-lighted place for a rear license plate. As a result the front plate usually looks tacked on. Carmakers seldom create a nice well for a front plate the way they do for rear plates.
