License plate holes in the front bumper and valance

Original hole size showing surrounding bumper cover material “pulled out” as a result of using the typical sheet metal screw for license plate holder installation.

Use a hair dryer on high temp to soften the bumper cover material and a plastic stick to push the surrounding “proud” material back into the hole. This will make the bumper cover material surface flat.

Source small “plastic revits” (available online from McMastet-Carr in various sizes and types -your choice as needed). Paint them a color to match your car and push into the hole.

These revits are very small, post size big enough to fit the hole and head/button to cover size of holes. They fit very tight yet are easily removable, unlike the “ribbed” posts of the commercially available bumper plug products.

Esthitcs are optimum with minimal invasion to the original painted bumper cover.

I think using “bumperplugs” is great if that works for you. They do provide the plugs already painted. I didn’t want to drill out a 1/8” hole to 1/4” size and I didn’t want to put a thick plug that was 1/2” in diameter in my bumper fascia. I did talk to the “bumperplugs” people to see if they could offer any alternatives. They couldn’t offer anything beyond drilling out my holes to twice the size and putting on a 1/2” plug. After throrough research I came up with a plug that fit the existing 1/8” hole, was .040” thick and 5/32” in diameter. It worked well for me so I thought I would pass along the alternative for the Rennlist community as an option.