It appears that the rear is not drilled for a plate from the factory and the dealer just screws some screws in. Is this correct?

I have rarely been satisfied with plate mountings as dealers tend to use mild steel screws which rust and then look like crap. I prefer stainless steel rivnuts with plastic machine screws and have retrofitted these to some of my vehicles. I have asked my dealer to skip the plate mounting, but I am curious if I am right that there are no holes and no “factory” screws or other provision for mounting of the rear plate.

Pretty sure they do. Here is a picture of an “unviolated” GT3 rear bumper.

There are “indents” cast into the rear bumper skin at the screw points, along with extra thickness. The dealer then uses self-tapping screws to attach the plate to these locations.

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Do you think they are factory screws?

WOW! Drilling holes into a $200k car bumper. Really they could have done something better.

If you don’t like it, you could probably make a mount that threads into the rear tow hook receptacle (right behind the plate) instead (like the ones that US Millworks makes for the front plate). I personally think the stock method works really well and if the plate sits too far from the bumper, the little lights won’t illuminate the plate properly at night.

why would they drill holes when they could have sleeves pre placed nice and neatly at factory. Sorry i have OCD. Just makes me cringe.