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[Ratspants]

I can't see anything else obviously different about it.

Top Tip #1: Get your front plate unscrewed and attached instead with B&Q heavy duty velcro. Whacking your plate on stuff is a way of life - all the ones I ever see in Evo magazine photo shoots have mashed plates. Worst case scenario is that the screws will pull out a chunk of fibreglass when the plate gets hit

Top Tip #2: Get a 3/4 plate from >Fancy Plates< because you won't whack it and it looks nicer.

Have fun with your new toy!!!

Ben

[LewisT]

Tried to get hold of a number plate today a tiny 3/4 one. What a farse! no one will supply one, even tried the old handshake and a note, with nothing. What is Halfords coming too????? Anyhow, i found a man who can, and he is sorting it this week. However one Q for anyone who already got a 3/4 number plate, what are the laws regarding such a thing. My car is older than the law change, so could i get away with, it was on it when i bought it, and i didnt know it was illegal?? any clues?

[Jase_MK]

www.fancyplates.com will do you a plate any size you like, no questions... Best bet is to have them velcroed on and have a legal set in the boot. If you get stopped, say "sorry officer, I had the smaller one on for a track day or something and forgot to swap back. I'll do it now, grovel, grovel" To be honest a 3/4 size one doesn't look out of place on the VX as it fits the proportions of the car better than a full size and probably won't get noticed anyway. The police tend to be more interested in silly fonts and colours etc. Never had any bother with a 3/4 plate on the VX myself.

[VEX]

Debaged the griffin off the back, it was just way to big for the car IMO. V and Griffin off the front, but will be refitting a smaller griffin (astra sized) on the nose of the front clam.

[WoodenDummy]

How did you get the front V off?

[VEX]

How did you get the front V off?

I think the FAQ or How to section has full details of how to remove the front clam and unscrew it from the inside.

The alternative is to take an angle grinder and soldering iron the size of a spade to it from the front. As some one else has done.

My V is hanging upsidedown in the garage as we speak.

[WoodenDummy]

How did you get the front V off?

I think the FAQ or How to section has full details of how to remove the front clam and unscrew it from the inside.

The alternative is to take an angle grinder and soldering iron the size of a spade to it from the front. As some one else has done.

My V is hanging upsidedown in the garage as we speak.

I'll go look.

[Ratspants]

www.fancyplates.com will do you a plate any size you like, no questions...

Yeah, they're great! I ordered some for me and some for a mate on the same order and no-one batted an eyelid.

Stop thinking evil thoughts.



Ben

[flash]

I bloody love this car never liked a car as much as this one, well one that was mine anyways....

Welcome to the club!

[martinh]

I reckon that the debadging is because they try and pretend that they are in a more expensive car, I bet the same people wore platform shoes and will consider a wig in later life.

[clipping_point]

I reckon that the debadging is because they try and pretend that they are in a more expensive car, I bet the same people wore platform shoes and will consider a wig in later life.

Great! I don´t care particularly what other people think. Some time its an disadvantage. In this case not. If I had cared bout the badge I'd bought a beemer or a Porsche. But i don't.


And I'll pass them in my Opel. Fcuk'em!

[ricer]

just done mine not 10 mins ago see <here> damn it, it just looks better

[martinh]

realistically boys I think that when it is debadged it looks like a kit car, just my view as normal when people walk past they think what is it at least with a Vauxhall badge they know we haven’t built it in the garage

[LewisT]

people dont know its a vauxhall anyway. Mine is badges up and i peole still go what is it? If you think about it, people with porsche turbo's get theres de badged, M3's are debadged, people do it, for a few reasons, one to look better, two because i think its better with some mystery, and there will be some who arent proud of vauxhall badge. Lets face it, its has major input from lotus, so people like to think of it that way, and WHY NOT??? It may be a vauxhall, but then debadged will never take that away from it. Its unfair to say that people do it out of vanity, or to show off. Its merely a way to improve the rear end, or be different from other VX's