hiding the front license plate

[92EvilTalon]

I like how you did that. Is it a law to have the whole plate showing or just the numbers? I like how you did yours. Thats pretty sweet. In a way its like the Euro plates. Oh and btw I also like to see the design of the plate braket.

[HiImBrian]

So mounting to heavy duty servo's that have a arm coming down to one of the mounting holes for the plate. And have them pull upward. If you want take a window track and modify it to fit in that small area. And have the plate slide along the track. The Servo's can be pretty damn fast also easy to control and not spendy...like a window track motor.


Yea the window motors are a little spendy, and if I do decided to try and mass produce these I would want the cost as cheap as possible. I am unfamiliar with the term servo. I have a few ideas of how to make brackets and mounts for the plate to attach to, I just need ideas for motors I could use. The window motor is rather large and provides more power than I really need.

[Onefast99gsx]

Thanks... i'm not sure if it's required to have the whole thing showing or what. I did it mainly to please the worst of all state troopers (pull ya over for anything!!) He ended up pulling me over one night saying that I was speeding thru town. I happended to be logging my fuel trims in dsmlink at the time and actually played the dsmlink log back for him to show my speed :D

Anyway, I got out of the car and showed him the plate mechanism I made because he pulled me over for no front plate before. He was totally cool with it, even though I trimmed the Wisconsin off the bottom. His exact words were, "At least it's there" He NEVER bothered me again about it.

If you have a FMIC, there isn't a whole lot of room to be mounting motors and stuff behind the bumper. If you run a window motor, how are you going to come up with the regulator? In otherwards, you're inside and you push a button. There would have to be some sort of a limit switch telling the motor to shut off. Servos are getting complicated because many of them work of PWM (pulse width modulation). You'd then need a circuit for that.

You might be better off with some sort of pneumatic air powered piston. Sometimes all the best ideas lead to an idea that will never get completed because of complication. That's why I just went simple. It looks good to the point where I don't mind have it the way it is.

[xveganxcowboyx]

For weight and ease of design I would just use a simple catch. You'd have to push it back up it's track or bracket, but would be able to just flip a switch or whatever to let it drop down.

[Swifty1638]

Roll the plate at the bottom, so when you are stopped, the plate is down, but when you are driving, or on the highway, the plate (mounted on hinges) will swing up.

-A. Swift

[Onefast99gsx]

Somewhere is a how to out there that a guy wrote up for his BMW or something. It was hinged and spring loaded. I didn't go that route because the bumper cover ledge or whatever isn't as deep as the plate is long. So it would hung out some.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

I've seen something similar to a couple suggestions on some cuztom sportbikes. It's just the plate mounted with a hinge, and they use a little servo to pull it up flush with the tail of the bike. I'm sure you could rig up something similar in the bumper opening.

[2003eclipse]

Just move to wisconsin and you wont have to worry about it... 70 percent of the cars over here dont have numbers on their front plate cause they paint would wash away in a car wash... cops have been really lieniant about it all

[HiImBrian]

If you have a FMIC, there isn't a whole lot of room to be mounting motors and stuff behind the bumper.

Like I said, I took out the crash bar and I have a ton of room behind the bumper. I could fit a baby in there if I wanted.

[92EvilTalon]

Yea the window motors are a little spendy, and if I do decided to try and mass produce these I would want the cost as cheap as possible. I am unfamiliar with the term servo. I have a few ideas of how to make brackets and mounts for the plate to attach to, I just need ideas for motors I could use. The window motor is rather large and provides more power than I really need.

Alittle Google brought me to this link Whats a Servo (http://www.seattlerobotics.org/guide/servos.html)

And to the other comment yes a Servo needs a controler but its not that hard to mimic the same input it needs to do something. And they do stop at a point and will move back to the other point. And the cost for one is 15 dollars as the site states.