I hated the idea of drilling my front bumper to put a license plate on my new 2007 G35 Sedan, so at the excellent suggestion of G35Now!, I checked out Stillen's site and looked at their selection of front license plate kits. It turns out they don't have a kit labeled for the 2007 G35 Sedan, but after calling their excellent sport car line and speaking with an actual expert, I went down to the parking lot and made a few measurements and we determined that the Stillen kit "2004 - 2006 G35 2DR w/24mm Tow Hook Thread Diameter - 5 7/8" Length (Stock Fascia)" part# 105470, mfg# 105470 had a very good chance of fitting my 2007 4DR G35 Sedan. Turns out that it fits exactly and perfectly in every way. So the way this works is that you have three holes in the front of your car under the grill. To the starboard side of the middle hole is a big ole threaded hole. You actually have a monster threaded hook in your trunk that can screw in there, and your car can be towed with that hook. But that threaded hole can also hold a rod attached to a license plate bracket, and that's how this solution works. It involves no cutting, drilling or anything. You will have to hand-tighten one threaded rod and tighten 5 hex screws with a hex key. That's it. Assembly takes two to three minutes.

The kit looks like this except the threaded rod on mine was black:


I ordered mine 2 day air and got it in 2 days. Good job, Stillen! When I opened the kit, I saw that the thing was built like an Abrams TANK. That's a really good thing, too because it has about a 4mm clearance from the front bumper, and if it was floppy, it would bend and ding the bumper. But it's not - oh God no, it's built like a rigid steel armored car part, so it holds its shape precisely. See that license-plate sized black backplate? Dude, that's heavy gauge armor plate with a sunk screw and sunk lock-washer that goes into a concave depression in the threaded rod, which is heavy gauge steel lathed to perfection. yeah, you're paying sixty-some bucks for a front license plate bracket, but it's got sixty-some bucks worth of engineering in it, and it rocks.

Every screw on the thing is a hex screw - thank goodness I have a hex set.

This is about 60 seconds into assembly:

Yes, it's close - but it's rigid, and remember, it's not bent - it's supposed to be at that angle because the bumper curves there. The rod points exactly straight forward along the longitudinal axis of the car:

And a minute later (alright, two minutes - I dropped a screw), here it is in all its splendor, with the plate bolted on. I was so impressed with the installation that I put on the Stillen plastic frame that they send you with the order. Free advertising for them.

So there you have it. I give this kit 10/10 for design, construction and accuracy and I give Stillen 10/10 for helping guide my selection and delivering fast with a nice packing job.

-Gorn

 

I think you installed it crooked/ off center-

I personally dont care for that look-

maybe you need a sideways muffler now too to help balance it out?

 

nice, but wish it was centered...

 

looks good actually! i dont mind that its off centered. its gonna keep the damn glendale, pasadena, burbank and other cops off your a$$! one question tho...i tried measuring the 5 7/8" on the sprot bumper and i felt it stuck out too much. did stillen have anyhitng to say about that??

 

too bad its not centered or far left / right

 

They didn't say anything about the sport bumper at all. You could always give it a try!

 

actually, i just measured again....5 7/8" shoudl be perfect ma bad!!! hehe

 

im glad we do not have a front plate in louisiana. That looks really nasty. But glad you didnt have to drill holes in the front.

 

i give the look 1 out of 10.

I'd rather stick it on the dashboard window than stick it lopsided like that.

 

It's the Euro look, guys!

 

the engineering of the kit is quite impressive,
not my thing with the off center look but to each his own
ill go plateless smooth and clean

 

That's very...um...different...

I think I'd rather just drill holes and mount it traditionally or find some other way to modify a mount in the middle than go that route.

Does look like armor plating, though. Metal looks thick as heck!

 

dammmm Stillen that front plate looks like crap who wants an off centered liscense plate?

 

Good deal! I wish it was centered too, but if I'm ever forced to put on a plate I'll do it this way vs. drilling freakin' holes in my bumper.

 

A+ for effort, but I think it looks much better centered on the bumper.