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How do you remove them? There must be a special tool?

I'd rather get them from Vic Police rather than interstate on eBay as I can be certain the removal tool will be available.

Go to bunnings , they sell them in the builders department. I know because i work there lolz

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Vic Police had a stand at the Melbourne F1 this year for the one way screws. You just had to tell them what car you had and they looked it up in their book and gave you the best screws to use.

I haven't even looked at them yet because I was going to wait to order personalised plates before using them.

Maybe you can still pick them up from police? :\

pretty sure most cop shops will hook you up

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Hi guys, my mate just bought some personalised plates, but as he doesn't have a garage, has to park his car outside. I am also looking into getting custom plates.

I had a bad experience 2 years ago with people stealing my plates outside and then, I guess, using it for petrol station theft (this was in the bad old days of $1.60/L prices). It wasn't customised, so I ordered new standard plates,.

If it was personalise plates, could you re-order the same ones or would it have to be a different combo? I would be gutted if I lost my combo. I was looking around at ways to deter licence plate theft and I stumbled on this:

http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleD...ArticleID=57071

I totally didn't know about this when it was on. Does anyone know if this service is still available anywhere?

Had a look at eBay without much success. Only listing I could find was this:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/8-x-ONE-WAY-NUMBER-...bayphotohosting

I don't understand how they can be one-way screws when they are screwed in with any normal screwdriver, look like normal screws, and apparently don't need a specialised tool to unscrew.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

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Vic Police had a stand at the Melbourne F1 this year for the one way screws. You just had to tell them what car you had and they looked it up in their book and gave you the best screws to use.

I haven't even looked at them yet because I was going to wait to order personalised plates before using them.

Maybe you can still pick them up from police? :\

Phatboy Mentor

Phatboy

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If you look at the screws closely the edges that get hit by the screwdriver when undoing are ramped, causing the drive to pop out of the slot.

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How do you remove them? There must be a special tool?

I'd rather get them from Vic Police rather than interstate on eBay as I can be certain the removal tool will be available.

AGE Veteran

AGE

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Alen keys bolts.

and put a bolt on the otherside, and if you like, lock tight also, and number plate proctectors position right your can get any fingers under there :)

Or one better would be Torx bolts.

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W0rp3D Grand Master

W0rp3D

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Alen keys bolts.

and put a bolt on the otherside, and if you like, lock tight also, and number plate proctectors position right your can get any fingers under there :pirate:

Instead of loctite use a lock nut, that way the only way to get it off is a spanner on each side.

Dont know where to get them from but there is a bolt that once it is torqued up to a certain pressure the head snaps off, you either ues a chisel/angle grinder or have to cut a grove in the top to use a screw driver.

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Dont know where to get them from but there is a bolt that once it is torqued up to a certain pressure the head snaps off, you either ues a chisel/angle grinder or have to cut a grove in the top to use a screw driver.

The drive snaps of the nut normally and they just have a flat head, the ones we use at work are called Hi-Locks, Put a big penny washer under the head of the fastner and nut as well, makes it harder to rip off the number plate....

rs73 Grand Master

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use a nail gun and nail it along the border of your number plate.

that's what we have to do in Asia. as soon as we bought our new 1989 toyota corolla se (back in 1989) we took it to a workshop to have one of the guys there to nail gun all badges, YES, those are the toyota logo, the 1.6SE badge at the boot, etc. Put a screw on the grill toyota badge as well.

so they don't go missing.

W0rp3D Grand Master

W0rp3D

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Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but if you can't get them off, how the f**k do you get your plates off when you want/need to?

When do you want to?

But if your happy to make it easy for someone else to get your plates off because MAYBE one day you MIGHT need to take them off then you'll just have to deal with it when there stolen.

dezz Grand Master

dezz

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When do you want to?

But if your happy to make it easy for someone else to get your plates off because MAYBE one day you MIGHT need to take them off then you'll just have to deal with it when there stolen.

Considering this is a website of car enthusiasts...Car shows, DECA, track days and so on.

ANK Enthusiast

ANK

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screw a metal strip into your bumber or where ever its meant to go make sure you drill holes in it prior to putting it on that match your number plate screw holes then potrivit your number plate to the metal strip if you need to get them off you just use a drill the number plate will cover the screws that are holding the metal stip to your bar :)

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