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Shaky license plate holder

SFL_driver

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Anyone have any ideas why my rear license plate frame holder won’t tighten all the way down? Screws are both full tight. It feels like the bolts have bottomed out but the head still has some space between it and the bottom of the plate holder. Bolts are T-25, 25mm long.
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Appears that the bolt head is too small for the opening in the plate? Seems like there should be some tube spacers or washers🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Appears that the bolt head is too small for the opening in the plate? Seems like there should be some tube spacers or washers🤷🏻‍♂️
The bolt head diameter seems okay. It feels like the bolt is bottoming out (too long) before the head can meet the plate holder to apply pressure.
Seems like either the bolts are too long or the plate holder is somehow not correct.
Throwing a couple washers on each bolt would surely solve the issue but I shouldn’t have to Jerry rig something on a brand new vehicle.
Maybe the bolts or holder are the parts for the front license plate (which we don’t use in my state).

Can anyone confirm if 25mm is the correct bolt length on their vehicle?
 
The bolt head diameter seems okay. It feels like the bolt is bottoming out (too long) before the head can meet the plate holder to apply pressure.
Seems like either the bolts are too long or the plate holder is somehow not correct.
Throwing a couple washers on each bolt would surely solve the issue but I shouldn’t have to Jerry rig something on a brand new vehicle.
Maybe the bolts or holder are the parts for the front license plate (which we don’t use in my state).

Can anyone confirm if 25mm is the correct bolt length on their vehicle?
Late response, you've sorted it out by now most likely. Anyway, as I recall the two screws were M6-1.0s to attach the plate mount MileOne gave me (they put it on) to that mount-behind-the-back-bumper, and there were two holes in the bumper fascia, and then the screw holes were part of the frame or something attached to it, behind the bumper fascia. I'm not sure the length of those screws now, but if I had to guess I think the screw holes were pass-thru, and 25mm seems fine, and I think one could use 30mm or longer without hitting something further in the vehicle. The plate mount then had 4 M5-0.8 sized brass pieces mounted in the plastic, and the plate itself is attached to those using that size screw, about 12mm length for those because you'd hit the bumper itself with screws too long. Front mounting holes stick out from the front, found those are 8/32nd size screws, though the closest metric equivalent would probably work. So at Home Depot, found 5/8" long #8's stainless steel, and those worked to mount the identical plate mount onto the front (no winch on my G-Class).

Does every INEOS dealer source their own plate hardware to mount stuff? If so, given we'd all be mounting to the same specs front and back for the different configs (with winch, without etc.) wouldn't it be better to have INEOS supplied plate mounting systems (that are good quality) dealers can source from INEOS for consistency? Someone on here mentioned their dealer used self-tapping screws to screw the paper temp tag right into the bumper material. That's a capital offense in my book, that's insane.
 
Anyone have any ideas why my rear license plate frame holder won’t tighten all the way down? Screws are both full tight. It feels like the bolts have bottomed out but the head still has some space between it and the bottom of the plate holder. Bolts are T-25, 25mm long.
United States
Video:
View: https://youtu.be/Or0AFX1aY2Y?si=QL5mHBE5tn6uGLg6
Also note that in the video, that's the same plate mount as I have. Question, mine had rubber padding applied to the backside, strips of it, adhesive-backed, maybe it's shaky because those two screw holes used for mounting these on the Grenadier stick out more than all the other mounting screw holes, and maybe the rubber adhesive-backed pieces stick out to where those two mount holes do?
 
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