Re: [T3] License plate bracket?

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 5 Sep 2003 at 23:34, BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com wrote:

> Aaron wrote:
> > I have what looks like a "universal" rear license
> > plate bracket (according to CIP1 catalog). The two
> > screws that are supposed to attach to the rear lid are
> > much too close together for what is currently there:
> >  _____ _ _____
> > {_____o_o_____} <- bracket looks like
> >  ____ ___ ____
> > {____o___o____} <- what it should look like?
> > 
> > Am I looking at something wrong? Is this not correct
> > for my '71? I am not taking a drill to my lid! :)
> 
> I have a couple with the legs on them like your front plate has. If these 
> will work, you can have it for shipping. 

I've always considered the ones with legs to be the correct ones for the front 
only. I never noticed rear ones, like Aaron drew above, with different hole 
spacings. If the spacing is wrong he could always drill new holes in the 
bracket itself. 

I've got one here right now where the dealer apparently just drilled 4 holes in 
a rectangle and screwed the plate on with no bracket at all. I think this was 
extremely chinzy, but I have to admit that it seems to have worked.

I was surprised to hear that VW didn't supply brackets at all. It seems amazing 
that in that case most all of the cars I have seen came with the same style 
brackets. To make the brackets work well, and to keep the plate from beating 
against the paintwork, I've always gone to the junkyard and grabbed a handfull 
of the rubber bumpers from fuel flaps on US cars. These go nicely in the 2 
extra holes in the plates and keep the plate from hitting the paint.

BTW, I find that the front bracket works best if you install it hanging DOWN, 
with rubber bumpers in the 2 TOP holes of the plate.
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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