how are the number plates attached?

[t3stin]

I need to change mine due to a private plate but they seem stuck on pretty solidly. I have given them a good tug and tried the boiling water down the back trick incase they have used sticky pads but they refuse to budge - not screwed in either. also tried running some wire behind it to "hacksaw" any potential pads off but to no avail so i'm at a loss as to how i'm going to get the buggers off!

Thanks for any help.

[kraj]

They are just stuck on but that 3M tape is tough stuff!

There is no easy way of getting them off other than trying to cut the tape or getting a plastic wedge under it to avoid damaging the bumper

[ikhan]

I had the same problem when did mine, but mine had both the sticky pads and additional fittings:

[*] Rear plates had rivets (which seems to be standard);

[*] Front plates had normal philips screws, but these were covered over by epoxy plastic which I had to break off (they had a posi-drive indentation on these which when I tried to unscrew the the head just rounded off, so I took a molygrip to it, but this broke the plastic 'cover' revealing the screw below it)