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[gluwu@lemm.ee]

No reason? How do you think those plates get made?

[grue@lemmy.world]

Front plates are bad for aerodynamics/fuel efficiency.

[pieisawesome@lemmy.world]

Source? It can’t be a significant amount

[whostosay@lemmy.world]

Yeah no. The thing here is that some cars are not designed to have a front LP, and you've got me fucked up if you think I'm going to drill holes in a piece of art.

[marlowe221@lemmy.world]

I used two self-tapping sheet metal screws when we moved from a single-plate-on-the-back state to a double-plate state.

There’s no holder but…. That’s pretty much decorative anyway.

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

Or just scrap double plates as an unnecessary and outdated thing.

[anivia@feddit.org]

I’d have to drill holes into the front

So what? That's how it's done at the factory too. I am also opposed to front plates but drilling into the bumper is no big deal

[graphy@lemmy.world]

Because front plates look like shit and Id rather not have to drill into my car just to make it easier on the cops?

That's how it's done at the factory too.

Wow no kidding.

[princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

For fun I looked up how I’d have to mount a front plate and it’s just gross. I’d have to drill holes into the front...

Wow no kidding.

[princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Considering all the massive utes with flat faces in the States, it would have exactly zero effect on those. Like maybe if you own a Ferrari I guess.

[graphy@lemmy.world]

Nice to see you really wanted to keep this post going lol

Almost as if there’s a difference between

An assembly line making perfectly centered holes into a part that they’ve yet to finish painting and detailing

versus

my ass crouching down and praying I can get four clean pilot holes in and by some miracle the paint not start flaking

Not to mention what if I put the plate slightly too high and it catches more wind and starts making some annoying ass whistling

[cort@lemmy.world]

Lol my concern would be it getting enough wind behind it and ripping it right off the bumper.

[kieron115@startrek.website]

"lopsided" font plate was almost a badge of honor back in the day lol because it meant that you had a front mount intercooler that needed air (and if you did the offset plate without an FMIC you were ridiculed endlessly for being a buffoon)