No. But people who have the same problem have and it hasn't helped. There's a long thread about it on this forum and other Mustang Forums. Supposedly Ford has known of the problem and will have a resolution in the coming weeks. It's on the 15 GT and Ecoboost PP which both have the same brakes.
To be perfectly honest, I rarely notice the front plate on any of our cars unless the cars are getting washed. The plate and any bracket do get in the way a little, and out of spite I don't often wash those bits, front or rear. When I'm driving I don't see them anyway, and if I'm close enough to you at the track to be passing you, you won't see it either.
I would think that the best treatment for a plate frame would be to make it as unremarkable and unnoticeable as possible. Hidden completely behind a standard-size U.S. plate sounds like a start.
I actually went to the Ford.com site to see if I could find a picture of this bracket that so many people hate, and of course I couldn't find one. Not even one with a plate that only read "2015" or "MUSTANG", and I know I've seen similar treatments before.
For the most part, I don't pay any attention to different state laws. I just drive where ever I have to and as long as I don't speed (which I rarely do) I've never had any problems in different states.
I think it looks like garbage in the front period. Personally, I don't think it looks any better on the fender or below. And for the argument about law. Consider yourself LUCKY! Sh!t don't fly around here unless you are a related to the man, if you know what I mean. I think the whole front plate argument is petty, but that's just me. I said it once and I'll say it again. If you don't like where my plate is, stay right there and I will brand you with it.
1. It's not required by law in my state.
If you've got a better single word that describes unhappiness over a perceived flaw in appearance, but which is not technically or mechanically wrong, I'd like to hear it.
Not wanting holes drilled in a car for literally zero purpose just doesn't fit the definition of vanity. I don't get your idea of it must be technically or mechanically wrong to not be "vanity". I could drill holes all over your car and there's still nothing wrong with it. Would you like that? Probably not.
I want the car as advertised in pictures on their website, in magazines and how it is sent from the factory intact. I will post pictures tonight. It's only the front end of the car, nobody ever sees that side right? How come their ads don't have these cheap license plate holders on them? Or at least a couple holes drilled in?
No harm, no foul, no problem.
Agreed.
Oh course not. Because they are hideous and it detracts from the car. In... MHO opinion, of course. And, obviously, the opinion of every single car manufacture out there.
LOL!
For those who live in a state that does not require a front plate - for whatever reason/exception - I certainly agree that having plate frame holes drilled would serve no purpose whatsoever. Under those circumstances, I wouldn't have holes drilled either (though I'm sure I'd leave the little dimples as is).
Like I said above, no frame or holes to mount it is fine if your state does not require it.
I guess that makes Ford and all the rest co-conspirators or at least complicit in the decisions of several people here (and many more elsewhere).
Perfect? Not hardly. But I am willing to think things through and come to my own conclusions independent of such outside influences as peer pressure and advertising. Been something of a nonconformist all my life. Marketing gurus probably hate people like me.
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). Some like myself feel the front plate law is closer to the former than the latter, being more for ease of enforcement than directly related to safety.
I can see your point #1 but I have been driving for 25yrs and every single car that I have driven, either owned borrowed or rented, has had the plastic license plate holder on the front of it. I do not even notice it anymore. This is a mountain out of a molehill, first world problem. But again, your mileage may vary.