Plate Pocket by BumpTek - Flexible Rubber Front Bumper Guard, Front Bumper Protection, License Plate Frame. Cushions Parking Bumps! (Classic Edition)

Great product to protect you license plate and front bumper from scratches

I feel better with this bumper license plate holder, that my car is now protected from parallel parkers who might bump my car.

100% worth the money, writing this after someone backed into me while trying to parallel park. Hopped out, check the front of the car, check the rear of theirs, no damage whatsoever!

My use case: I park in small spots in a crowded city, so I wanted the most-forward thing on my front bumper to be soft rubber instead of a hard, sharp screwhead. So if I accidentally tap someone while parking, it's less likely to leave a mark.This accomplishes that.But the strip across the top on the front, because of the "pocket" design, is loose. It's not going to come off, but it's going to flap around on the freeway (and /then/ maybe come off eventually?). I duct taped it down and it's pretty sturdy now. But I think this is a design flaw. I thought the "pocket" design was clever, but it seems to be flawed.

This license plate frame is made incredibly well and would improve the look of your car.

Buy this. Yeah, I endorse it. I have now purchased two of them. One for the front of my wife's new VW Atlas and one for the front of my new BMW X5. The product is well made and you can tell some thought went into it. It is rubber exterior, maybe an inch thick, with (what I think is) an aluminum frame inside for a little rigidity and mounting ease. You slide your license plate inside. Also, it comes with a couple variety of screws for attachment to your bumper. In the case of the VW I had to remove the plate bracket and attach directly to bumper with self-piloting screws provided. Easy, but for the lower two screws I did drill two pilot holes for ease of install since there were no screw holes from factory. The upper screws found the already existing holes and drove themselves home. In the BMW, the exiting bracket was a perfect fit and I was able to use the machine screws provided instead of the self-piloting screws. Install time of the VW was 10 minutes or less. On the BMW it was 5 minutes or less. With all of that said I cannot say how much protection this will provide since I haven't hit anything with it (and don't plan on it) but it appears it wold be *perfect* for those times you pull into a space or garage too far and scrape your plate or front bumper. It stands out maybe an inch. Having bought it (the streamline edition) I suppose you could go a little thicker without being too silly looking, but if I had to do it again I'd still buy this version. You decide for yourself if you think you want the slightly thicker version.

Got this for my Honda Accord. The dealer only mounted my front license with two screws, used two of the four provided in the plate pocket to mount it with all 4 holes. Did not need to find longer or extra screws, the ones from the dealer as well as the ones that came from BumpTek fit perfectly. The other day I was inching up as close as I could to a garage spot wall and got a bit too close, felt the wall stop me from moving up and immediately thought, shoot I scratched up my bumper. Was not the case, just a small small scruff on the plate pocket and not a mark on my plate, bumper, or body paint. I have no doubt that in my minor bump the plate pocket dampened the force to something harmless as well as protected my plate and paint from getting scratched up. I was however only inching at a slow parking crawl, which is exactly the kind of thing this plate pocket is made to protect against, don't think it'd do much in collisions at any speed greater than an accidental parking fender bender. I am more confident that if I leave my car on the street and someone backed up too close to my car parked behind it, this would dampen the blow and protect my front from scratches and scruffs as long as they didn't speed backwards into me. Did what I expected it to, very satisfied.

I purchased 3 of these, and I love them! They look great! In my opinion, they look better than the other ones currently available. I tried the Classic Edition but I felt that they were too thick compared to these. These are 1/4" thinner, so they look much better. One of my vehicles uses only the two top screws to mount it, and it feels very secure.Screws are included (4 M6 metric machine and 4 1/4" coarse thread). The screws should fit Hondas/Acuras/Toyotas/many domestics and others but may not fit certain BMWs (you might be able to reuse your screws). I'm using screws from the "Cruiser Accessories 81500 Stainless Steel Ultimate Kit Star Pin Locking Fastener" kit.The seller EuroBumperGuard is excellent. Very good communication and they take great care of you!One suggestion to BumpTek is to engineer a way to hide the opening for the plate. Right now the top of the plate is visible through the slot, so I had to blacken the top of the plate to make it look nicer. If the top opening could be hidden with some sort of fold-over piece of rubber, it would look even better. On one of my vehicles that uses 4 screws, I'm thinking about mounting it upside down though the logo would also be upside down as well, but at least it should look much better. And I wouldn't mind if you came out with an even thinner version as well.Overall, I am very pleased with these!