I decided to pull my front plate off today and see what it looks like without it. MUCH better.

Sadly dealership screwed the hold into the painted portion of the bumper.

Good news is, you only see it if you are RIGHT up on it. Hopefully the fuzz dont mind me being plateless.

Plate + ziptie in the glove box JUST in case johnny law says it looks better with it

 

You can get the little plastic barbed push-in panel fasteners from Home Depot then paint them with touch-up paint. If it is done correctly, they look stock once they are in.

 

Sweet. I don't have this problem with my New Mexican MINI, as we don't have front plates. However our Saab has been in California and everytime I wash it I'm annoyed by those two holes in the front bumper. Thanks for the solution!

 

Found this site http://www.bumperplugs.com/ . Hope it helps.

Stan

 

I specifically told my dealer DO NOT drill any hole in bumper before my car even got to dealership

 

same here

 

bought mine used, have to figure out something for the holes, might mount lights there if it looks good, don't like the plugs they'd annoy the hell out of me.

 

dont you hate that!

I guess the memo never reached it all the way to the bumper hole driller....

 

This happened to me back in Dec. too...



And I can't see myself dropping that much money on 2 colored plastic bits. I might go to home depot and just paint them myself with some touch up paint.

 

WOW!! And I thought OUR stuff was expensive!!