Park Distance Control vs. Euro style license plate

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Feb 14, 2007 | 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Spyder44' post='391052' date='Feb 13 2007, 04:56 PM

Joy of Joys. Thought I'd leave the 5er in the garage today though. No need to chance it when there is a perfectly good LR3 sitting there beggin to be driven...Supposed to get a foot today....thought I might skive off work early, take a picture of the plate and then go to 7 springs

I've had 2 types of frames on the plates and never any issue with the PDC. They stick out a little more than the plate itself if it was just stuck on, about 7 mm. - see the shadow in the night pic :

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Feb 28, 2007 | 07:22 AM

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Ok. So I know I never did post those pictures of my issue....

,but I fixed it! Bottom line: the plate stuck JUST far enough out from the bumper as it curved around that the PDC would pick up the edge of the frame. So I just bent it. Was trying to over engineer it and then went with the "duct tape fixes everything" rule and bent the sucker. Not a problem anymore. .....except now the wife wants it on the Land Rover!