When I bought my car brand new in December the dealer told me that the fron license plate frame was in the trunk well when I finally checked several months later there was nothing. I recently got a ticket for no front license plate and several months ago I finally had the dealer give me a front frame plate to mount to the bumper. They didn't have any laying around so they took one out of the evo 9 in the showroom. Well today I go to test fit it and realize that the instructions show a 9 front bumper and I don't think it will mount correctly. What concerns me even more is that you need to drill into the front bumper. Is this required??? I definitely do not want to drill into my front bumper cover. Do the evo8 and 9 front mounting plates differ?

 

i posted a similar question because i wanted to mount either a 04/05 or an 06 one on my wrx...but when i called a local dealer they said those 2 are differnt..

 

Does the evo 8 front license plate frame require that you drill into the bumper?

 

yes it does..that is why alot of people have them lying around because they do NOT want to drill into it so they just sell the brackets