I've had a retractable plate for quite some time now, but had originally installed it on the bottom of the bumper. This was fine until I lowered the car and scraped it to hell and back. Eventually I took it off as it didn't operate smoothly any longer.

Finally I had the idea to locate the retractable plate in a safer location. Plus the plate wouldn't fit on the bottom of the front bumper with the TS-P lip...

See below for the pics and an animated GIF.

Animated GIF of the retractable plate in action



Plate out



Plate retracted



Closeup of modification needed to fit plate.

 

looks good.

that would be great...get pulled over for no front plate...as the cop is standing next to you saying i pulled you over for no front plate you flip the switch with out him knowing and be like "officer i think you might have missed it...its right there in the front" haha

 

lol. unfortunately mine's manual operation. Wezbian left my house earlier... we installed a motorized one on his car. It's effing sweet! he'll post a vid sooner or later.

 

Wow nice! Where can I get myself one of these?

 

wow... that is pimp!.. you'll make a grip doing installs! =P

 

ha ha, thats what I would do. He'll be like "WTF?!", while scratching his head.

 

very nice mod! Would be nice to evade all those speed cameras too.. I wouldn't wanna get caught though coz it won't be just the G that's going to be impounded this time haha

 

Looks good.

More info on your headlights please!

 

not only is that the coolest mod yet to legalize things, but your front end looks mean as ****..love your car now....for real

 

thats sick... Time to make the rear one retractable too. haha

 

oh, that's nice, looks sick!
would you mind to make a diy for the motorized version?

 

That's cool! Mayb now I can get some bumper plug and graduate to the retractable plate. you'll have to do a DIY on this one when you get a chance.

 

Dude that is great engineering right there, you might wanna sell them!!!

 

i want one!

 

Nice. I would do that in a heartbeat if the dealers hadn't pre-drilled every bumper on the lot when I got mine.