Thanks for the instructions I will have a go
I got mine from ebay for about £8. No money at all. If you do though, ask the seller to send it flat, not rolled. My one was rolled and developed creases in it but I was too impatient to send it back and fitted it anyway. After about a week the adhesive lifted and produced two crimped lines across the plate 
It’s a little thing but you notice it…
An important tip: you must avoid creases when fitting, but don’t worry about small air bubbles. They will come out after a fortnight or so, because the vinyl is slightly permeable.
Getting the plate straight is a challenge. They look best on a Mk1 if you remove the nose badge and put the plate fairly high up; about 2 inches from the join with the bonnet. Then, because you don’t have a nose badge any more, you can put a “MaZDa” bumper sticker below the swage line on the passenger side for the 1989 look.
Put on the plate, bit tricky and very nearly gave up, but just at the last min it all went to plan.
A few tiny air bubbles and one very tiny crease, but not too bad
LOOKS COOL!
Looks good mate. I think that the side mounted plates are a bit too common although i like them a lot.
I went for the stick on plate and think it looks good.
hi again bodie, any tips on how to apply the plate, seeing as you are thinking of re-doing yours, is there any stretch in the material, would warming plate first make it more pliable, etc, etc,
seeing photoes on here, it seems that the mark 1 has a lot flatter face than the mark 2.
regards leemarb
Hi All
Could someone out there please give some better information then my MOT tester.
I have a MX5 MK3 can I fit a stick on front plate to this car. I use the car for track days and the front number plate covers half the front grill so restricts air flow to the engine.
Its a 2007 car so would this be legal
Many Thanks
Hi, no not allowed,
http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_630.htm
"2. On Vehicles first Registered on or after 1 January 1973, Check
. the colour of the characters and background
. that the registration plates are fixed vertically, or as close to vertical as is reasonably practical"
etc
Toying with doing this on mine, think a smaller stick on plate would look really good
There is some discussion here from a couple of years back.
http://www.mx5oc.co.uk/forum/yaf_postst70161_Front-uk-number-plate.aspx
I’m sure the situation is that yes they are strictly speaking against the regulations, but so long as the letters & numbers are visible they don’t really care. The regs are there to stop people taking liberties and putting completely unreadable plates on but a legal-fonted sticky on the nose of an MX-5 is in the spirit of the law if not to the letter of it. Only the most unreasonable sections of the authorities are going to have a problem, and if you meet one of them they’ll probably have you for loads of other stuff too.
I really do like the look of the stick on plates - think i’ll be getting 1 soon
I’m a bit picky about things being square and level (have to adjust pictures on walls in most houses I visit!) and if I stuck on a plate that was even 1mm out of true it would drive me mad. So when I fitted my sticky plate, I got the rough position, then took a tape measure to it to make sure it was completely central and level. I then used strips of masking tape to mark the position and stuck the plate on using those.
I’m keeping the holes in the front bumper where the ugly bracket used to be, just in case I need to re-attach it at MoT time. My understanding is as above - it’s a pre-2001 car, so providing font and spacing are legal, and it is ‘as vertical as possible’, it should be OK. I like the mini-E-Type look
