Taking delivery of an M2 soon and am debating whether to let dealer install regular plates requiring drilling or purchase one of the no-drill options on the market like this one: https://www.cravenspeed.com/front-license-plate-mount-for-2019-2020-bmw-m2-competition/ Would appreciate hearing your experiences and advice. Thanks, -- Jeff
I'd wait for the 3rd ticket before deciding. Some states seem to be worse than the other when it comes to front plates.
I have a similar plate holder on my M3 and I like it a lot. Just don’t take your car through a car wash they can cause damage to the car.
Some people are fortunate to live on the border of two states—one requires a front plate and the other does net—so that law enforcement is used to seeing cars with no front plates. Such front-plate scofflaws have gone years with no tickets. Or so I'm told. You can always keep the Platypus-mounted plate in the trunk and in case you get stopped, tell the officer that you recently had a photo shoot with the car and forgot to re-mount the plate. Your car is good-looking enough that it's believable, but you might want to have some really good shots of the car on your phone, just in case.
Take your plate off and put it in a good scanner and scan it. I'd recommend a .jpg (keep the size 1 to 1). Take the file to your local sign shop and tell them to make a sticker out of the image. When completed, take it out to the front bumper and apply (or let the sign shop do it). If done correctly, you can't tell it's a sticker at 20' or more. Done by a friend. :^)
i use one of these on the E36. not a fan of the tow hook mounts. very unattractive. https://skenebrackets.com/index.shtml
