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Saturn Sky Performance Discussion Internal Engine | External Engine | Suspension | Exhaust | Upgrades and Aftermarket |   | | Yesterday, 02:22 PM | #1 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 251 | Colorado front plate So I had to attach my front license plate to the front of my car, but I didn't have a bracket, so I tied it to the gap in front of my intercooler against the plastic mesh. I figure this is restrictive to cooling the air, however, especially with my GMPP tune and at altitude touching 26 PSI occasionally under full boost. Holding 26 PSI eventually results in LIMP-MODE and knocking. I have to have it on there because I work at a USAF base and the gate-guards are fussy about such things. So.. does anyone have a spare front bumper bracket or a suggestion as to where to place that stupid front plate? Or get a new job? | |  | Sponsored Links | Advertisement
| | Yesterday, 02:32 PM | #2 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 366 | I never bothered attaching my bracket and I have no front plate attached. I have never had an issue. __________________ 2008 Saturn Sky Redline | |  | Yesterday, 02:53 PM | #3 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Parker Colorado Posts: 2,008 | One of our local club members (Rocky Mountain Solstice and Sky Club) who lives in Highlands ranch came up with a great solution. He bought a couple of carriage bolts, wrapped them in foam until they had a friction fit through the front grille honeycomb. When he needs the plate, he slips it into the grille, then when he is done with it he pulls it out and sticks it in the trunk. Works great. __________________ "They call 'em crunchies because that is the noise they make when you run over 'em" Electrical Engineer Suramar DK Oberstkurtz, DPS Colonelkurtz, DPS Majorkurtz Secretary Rocky Mountain Solstice and Sky Club NASSOA and GMR member
 | |  | Yesterday, 03:06 PM | #4 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 251 | How much do you want for the bracket? Being on-base I have no choice. | |  | Yesterday, 03:39 PM | #5 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Putnam, CT Posts: 1,134 | Any chance you could keep it alongside your seat and hold it up to the guard when entering the base? Explain that the bracket broke off in a car wash? __________________ 2009 Ruby Red SE "Skunk" GMPP CAI & tune Solo MACH catback w/quad tips DDM Backbone & Pro-Beam | |  | Yesterday, 04:00 PM | #6 (permalink) | First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Third Rock Posts: 1,131 | Someone will have a front plate hanger they don't need. Good luck. Quote: Originally Posted by 27rings Any chance you could keep it alongside your seat and hold it up to the guard when entering the base? Explain that the bracket broke off in a car wash? | Now, now... rulez is rulez. Wouldn't be prudent  to BS an MP. | |  | Yesterday, 04:58 PM | #7 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Putnam, CT Posts: 1,134 | Quote: Originally Posted by SkyVue2 Now, now... rulez is rulez. Wouldn't be prudent to BS an MP. | Sort of works on state troopers (kinda like civilian MPs). __________________ 2009 Ruby Red SE "Skunk" GMPP CAI & tune Solo MACH catback w/quad tips DDM Backbone & Pro-Beam | |  | Yesterday, 05:01 PM | #8 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Putnam, CT Posts: 1,134 | This it? BRACKET. License Plate. for Saturn Sky (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) (10364149) Man, I hate to see someone add one. Ruins the front. Mine came with one and it took elbow grease and a lot of Goo-Gone to get rid of the damn thing. __________________ 2009 Ruby Red SE "Skunk" GMPP CAI & tune Solo MACH catback w/quad tips DDM Backbone & Pro-Beam | |  | Yesterday, 05:14 PM | #9 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Parker Colorado Posts: 2,008 | Actually they are APs. Different thing totally    Base = Air Force AP Post = Army MP After the Army invented the Air Force and they went off on their own, they changed their termonology out of spite. __________________ "They call 'em crunchies because that is the noise they make when you run over 'em" Electrical Engineer Suramar DK Oberstkurtz, DPS Colonelkurtz, DPS Majorkurtz Secretary Rocky Mountain Solstice and Sky Club NASSOA and GMR member
 | |  | Yesterday, 06:26 PM | #10 (permalink) | First 2000 Sr. Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Third Rock Posts: 1,131 | "Off we go... into the wild blue yonder." Quote: Originally Posted by Rob the Elder After the Army invented the Air Force and they went off on their own, they changed their terminology out of spite. | Oh yeah, thanks! 
Dad was Army Air Corps during WWII and mostly flew the hump taking supplies from India into China. Said it was always a h@lluva flight and if anyone went down in the Himalayas there were no rescue plans. Soon after the war he was USAF and flew the Berlin Airlift when the Rooskies thought they'd cut off the city's land routes and take over Berlin completely. Last edited by SkyVue2; Yesterday at 06:31 PM. | |  | Yesterday, 06:26 PM | #11 (permalink) | Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Rochester NY Posts: 15 | go to Amazon and look up hide a plate I have one on my GXP you can leave plate down most of the time and just put it up befor you go on base __________________ 08 Solstice GXP MYSTERIOUS RMR style bar Black GMPP tune back up light covers Black mesh GXP airbag light cover 3rd brake light decal SOLSTICE Eyelids painted to match body color VERDE CALIBRE wheels Opel GT antenna | |  | Yesterday, 06:36 PM | #12 (permalink) | Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Greenville SC Posts: 134 | Aww man, I threw mine away a couple weeks ago. | |  | Yesterday, 08:56 PM | #13 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles - 818 Posts: 196 | Quote: Originally Posted by CPB go to Amazon and look up hide a plate I have one on my GXP you can leave plate down most of the time and just put it up befor you go on base | +1  Since causing $600 in damage to my bumper thanks to that idiotic plate bracket I've been looking at the automatic hide a plates as well. You can find them on ebay as low as $130 and they come with a pair of key fobs to raise/lower from within the vehicle. The manual ones are even cheaper at like $40 or so. __________________ ______________________________________________________ '08 Saturn Sky RL "Gigi" 5sp, Triple Black, Sequential Turn Signals, Factory BT, SSR Rear View Mirror(w/HomeLink), HHR USB Radio, SE Wheels "Après moi, le déluge." | |  | Yesterday, 09:33 PM | #14 (permalink) | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,387 | | |  | Yesterday, 09:39 PM | #15 (permalink) | Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Greenville SC Posts: 134 | Quote: Originally Posted by GS Stage 1 | That was factory?! I just figured someone at the dealer that originally sold mine was stupid. | |  | Sponsored Links | Advertisement
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