Plate Pocket by BumpTek - Flexible Rubber Front Bumper Guard, Front Bumper Protection, License Plate Frame. Cushions Parking Bumps! (Extreme Edition)

Buy this. Yeah, I endorse it. I have now purchased two of them. One for the front of my wife's new VW Atlas and one for the front of my new BMW X5. The product is well made and you can tell some thought went into it. It is rubber exterior, maybe an inch thick, with (what I think is) an aluminum frame inside for a little rigidity and mounting ease. You slide your license plate inside. Also, it comes with a couple variety of screws for attachment to your bumper. In the case of the VW I had to remove the plate bracket and attach directly to bumper with self-piloting screws provided. Easy, but for the lower two screws I did drill two pilot holes for ease of install since there were no screw holes from factory. The upper screws found the already existing holes and drove themselves home. In the BMW, the exiting bracket was a perfect fit and I was able to use the machine screws provided instead of the self-piloting screws. Install time of the VW was 10 minutes or less. On the BMW it was 5 minutes or less. With all of that said I cannot say how much protection this will provide since I haven't hit anything with it (and don't plan on it) but it appears it wold be *perfect* for those times you pull into a space or garage too far and scrape your plate or front bumper. It stands out maybe an inch. Having bought it (the streamline edition) I suppose you could go a little thicker without being too silly looking, but if I had to do it again I'd still buy this version. You decide for yourself if you think you want the slightly thicker version.

Good product.

I live in Boston and the way people here drive and park just makes me so anxious! I've gotten scratches, bumps, and all sorts of dings from reckless drivers. After I got a new car, I decided I had to take preventative measures so I bought this BumpTek extreme edition rubber license frame. I don't like to mess around so I just got the thicker extreme edition (which is 0.5" thicker than the classic edition). The rubber material is quite thick and substantial, but doesn't look ridiculous. Also, the holes in the Bumptek rubber license cover are 7 inches apart (which is perfect for the holes that came pre-drilled in my license plate and front bumper). I read some reviews for other rubber license plate protectors which said that if the rubber frame covers the words in your license plate, you can get a ticket. My Massachusetts license didn't have any of the words/numbers covered by this Bumptek rubber frame. Thank goodness! Overall, I feel like this will definitely keep my car from getting dinged from bad drivers trying to parallel park in front of me.

My use case: I park in small spots in a crowded city, so I wanted the most-forward thing on my front bumper to be soft rubber instead of a hard, sharp screwhead. So if I accidentally tap someone while parking, it's less likely to leave a mark. This accomplishes that. But the strip across the top on the front, because of the "pocket" design, is loose. It's not going to come off, but it's going to flap around on the freeway (and /then/ maybe come off eventually?). I duct taped it down and it's pretty sturdy now. But I think this is a design flaw. I thought the "pocket" design was clever, but it seems to be flawed.

Originally purchased the BumpShox XL for my 2017 BMW and it would always activate the front sensors when the car is at a stand still and make an annoying beeping noise. Switched out the BumpShox XL with this and it no longer activates my front sensors at red lights while still offering great protection from bad parallel parkers. Highly recommended. UPDATE: Worked fine for about 2 weeks but after that my parking sensors started going off again. Not sure what changed but had to remove because it was very annoying to deal with the beep noise at every red light or stop. This is the second product I’ve purchased from this company and both end up activating my parking sensors so I won’t be wasting money on any more of their products. UPDATE 2: Ended up installing again and giving it another shot before returning since I really wanted protection for my car and my parking sensors mysteriously stopped going off. Been using for a couple of months now with no issues and my parking sensors haven’t gone off since.

I purchased 3 of these, and I love them! They look great! In my opinion, they look better than the other ones currently available. I tried the Classic Edition but I felt that they were too thick compared to these. These are 1/4" thinner, so they look much better. One of my vehicles uses only the two top screws to mount it, and it feels very secure. Screws are included (4 M6 metric machine and 4 1/4" coarse thread). The screws should fit Hondas/Acuras/Toyotas/many domestics and others but may not fit certain BMWs (you might be able to reuse your screws). I'm using screws from the "Cruiser Accessories 81500 Stainless Steel Ultimate Kit Star Pin Locking Fastener" kit. The seller EuroBumperGuard is excellent. Very good communication and they take great care of you! One suggestion to BumpTek is to engineer a way to hide the opening for the plate. Right now the top of the plate is visible through the slot, so I had to blacken the top of the plate to make it look nicer. If the top opening could be hidden with some sort of fold-over piece of rubber, it would look even better. On one of my vehicles that uses 4 screws, I'm thinking about mounting it upside down though the logo would also be upside down as well, but at least it should look much better. And I wouldn't mind if you came out with an even thinner version as well. Overall, I am very pleased with these!

Great product to protect you license plate and front bumper from scratches

We bought this because we have a very small driveway and have to nose the car right against the house. This thing is fantastic. Very very well made. Completely protects the front bumper. Would probably help in a low speed fender bender too.