Member Since: 16 Nov 2017
Location: Manchester
Posts: 107
Front numbeplate fixing?? Can we use stickies??
The rear number plate on Disco will be perfectly secure with stickies.. as that’s onto metal / paintwork.
But can a front plate also be fitted with sticky strips, given it’s onto the black bumper material..?
Anyone had any experience? I ask because the way the dealer has fitted my front plate, with two screws; is disgraceful, there’s about ten different holes back there and the two screw holes in use aren’t even in line, it looks ridiculous. So I’m after just getting a new plate stuck on instead.
21st Feb 2018 11:47 am
marsie
Member Since: 28 Feb 2010
Location: Sheffieldish
Posts: 1804
The plate on my last D4 was stuck on because i also hate having holes drilled . My plates were shorter and therefore lighter but never fell off Previous Discos
1989 200tdi 3dr
1994 300tdi ES
1995 3.9 ES (x3)
2000 4.0 adventurer
2001 4.0 ES
2005 D3 HSE (zambesi silver)
2007 D3 SE (Lugano teal)
2011 D4 XS (Baltic Blue)
2008 D3 HSE PREMIUM (buckingham blue)
2009 D4 XS (Nara bronze)
2006 D3 Metropolis (Java Black)
2012my D4 HSE (indus silver)
Current 2013 D4 XS (Firenze red)
21st Feb 2018 11:53 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 4400
I just put my new plates on this week, tape front and back. The plates I got are aluminium, so I curved the front one slightly to follow the shape of the bumper. 3 rows of tape, no problem!
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Richard
D3 SE 2007. Triumph 2.5Pi 1973. Ferguson TEA20 1948.
Discovery 2 4.0 ES 2001- Gone
Discovery 1 300Tdi ES '95 - Gone
Range Rover Classic '79 - Gone
21st Feb 2018 1:06 pm
professorpool
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
Location: Woking
Posts: 3213
Mine stuck on also D3 07 SE - still going strong
D3 07 HSE - gone to car heaven
FL1 - gone to Romania
D3 05 HSE - gone to a divorce diet
D1 V8 manual - gone but not forgotten
RR Classic - gone to car heaven
Jeeps, Lexus, X-trails... Too many to name..
21st Feb 2018 1:11 pm
MarkOne
Member Since: 23 Jul 2011
Location: County Antrim
Posts: 3345
Anyone that screws plates onto modern vehicles needs shot. That’s my take on it, big ignorant self tappers rammed through expensive bumpers
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21st Feb 2018 1:51 pm
adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Home and Happy
Posts: 6917
Stuck on wife's Polo plastic bumper for 2.5 years - no hassles and a lot easier
Stickers!A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
21st Feb 2018 3:46 pm
Triplet3
Member Since: 26 Nov 2016
Location: Southampton
Posts: 320
I used stickers but it came off after a few deep muddy holes on play days and lanes trips so screwed it on in the end. Cant remember the tape I used, the first time it was cheap stuff, the second was good stuff that I saw mentioned on this forum or another.
I should also add that my bumper has a shed load of scratches and teh odd scrap from off road excursions so im really not precious about a few holes.
I can always stick a new plate over the holes and nobody will ever know it had screws 1995 Discovery 1 300TDI
2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 - Gone
1979 Series 3 109" - Gone
21st Feb 2018 3:52 pm
KTM Gordo
Member Since: 18 Jul 2017
Location: St Neots
Posts: 109
I'm with you on the neatest way to affix plates. My front plate was previously screwed (as it were), but I've replaced it with a stuck-on one. Even on the slightly textured plastic plinth it's perfectly secure.
I bought a roll of double-sided numberplate tape from Halfords, and there's been enough to attach plates for the last few plate-swaps.Gordon
2016 D4 Landmark, Yulong White, SDV6, Ex-JLR Fleet
2013 D4 HSE (Gone! Sold within the forum)
21st Feb 2018 6:01 pm
trevorb1
Member Since: 21 Mar 2015
Location: Nuneaton
Posts: 62
My 15my was deliverd new with stick on front plate, after about 9 months it started to lift very slghtly on near side causing the near side in-board parking sensor to randomly flag an obstruction, plate reattached with screws and no repeat of the random triggering of the sensor.
21st Feb 2018 6:32 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Plastic plates on curved bumpers held on woth tape will start to come off soooner or later, the suggestion mentioned above with curving alloy style plates is a good one.
I'd go with tape … sadly I couldn't on current car due to the a previous owner had achieved in fixing the plates.
26th Feb 2018 2:56 pm
Grianaig
Member Since: 08 Jul 2014
Location: Tyne and Wear
Posts: 1286
Partly relevant. Drove down the A1(M) once and the FL2 in front shed its rear plate. At around 70mph. Quite impressive but as I was leaving on the slip road at the time could not let him know.2014 MY Discovery XS Indus Silver. Sadly gone. Second last LR of forty eight years continuous ownership.
26th Feb 2018 4:17 pm
Gazellio
Member Since: 09 Jan 2011
Location: Chilterns
Posts: 4130
I prefer small (correctly placed) capped number plate screws at the front and tape at the rear. The plastic compound on front plate holder does not take the curved number plate tape long term.
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. My plates were shorter and therefore lighter but never fell off 
a previous owner had achieved in fixing the plates. 
