How to fit it

You need a screwdriver, an isopropyl wipe, and somewhere above 10°C. About ten minutes per bumper. Do this once and you never do it again.

1. Take the old plate off

Unscrew or unstick your existing plate. If it was on adhesive pads, peel the old foam off the bumper and clean the residue back to bare paint.

Keep the old screws. If your bumper has a plinth behind the plate, leave it in place — it sets the plate angle.

2. Clean both surfaces

Wipe the bumper mounting area and the back of your number plate with isopropyl. Let both flash off completely — about a minute.

This is the step people skip and the reason kits fail. Wax, polish, road film and fingerprints all stop adhesive keying to the surface.

3. Screw the buttons to the bumper

Line each button up with an existing mounting hole and screw it down until it's firm. Snug, not gorilla-tight — you're threading into plastic.

The buttons use the mounting points your current plate already screws into, so there's nothing new to drill.

4. Fix the releases to your plate

Peel the backing, position each release on the back of your number plate, and press hard for thirty seconds across the whole footprint.

Fit above 10°C. Below that the adhesive is too firm to wet out properly and the bond never reaches full strength.

5. Leave it 24 hours

The adhesive is at about half strength after 20 minutes and full strength at 24 hours. Give it a day before the first motorway run or car wash.

Once cured it holds down to −40°C. Cold is a fitting problem, not a running one.

6. Drop on, push down, done

Locate the keyholes over the buttons, push down until it clicks home, then tug the plate upward to confirm it's captured. That tug is your pre-drive check.

Do the tug test every time you refit. It takes a second and it is the whole safety routine.