Yeah I also know how you feel. Why is it the i3 is the first car I ever cared about where I really don't want to put a front plate on it? Here in Portland, after I bought the car they handed me the license plate frame and said "here you go, you can figure out where you want to put it, if you really want to put one on". It seems like a lot of guys there hated running front plates and they all told me that most likely, you won't get popped unless you park it downtown and get the evil meter maids :twisted: . The Portland ones are pure evil for sure. So with that, they then said, "or come back and we'll put it on". So that was nice, at least I had the chance to think about that.
Really bugged me, thinking of drilling holes in that nice new bumper
. So figured that I could figure out something magnetic and ordered some big Neodymium magnets. It came up a lot faster than I thought it would happen, that I needed to park downtown. I only got to spend 5 minutes in design mode, but designed a adapter that slides through the very bottom grill front, and then is held down by velcro applied to the top of the bottom vent opening. Ring magnets carefully mounted to the license plate makes it complete. Get out of the car, slap the plate on and go. The plate instantly comes off or the whole adapter can be taken off in a few seconds .
Just saying this to let anyone know that it's possible to have an easily removable plate system with a little work. I used 1" black Poly so it's UV resistant, hardly noticeable, and cannot rust of course. Works great. I'll post some pics here soon for anyone interested :idea: .