LFPartS Stainless Steel Backing Reinforce Plate for License Plate, Black (Pack of 1)

I took my Lexus through a car wash and it nearly ripped my license plate off. It bent my license plate and license plate frame 90 degrees. After I straighten things back out I wanted a heavy backing plate to prevent that from happening, although I will never go through a car wash with brushes again. This is a high quality and heavy gauge stainless steel plate and just what I was looking for.

This plate was packaged very nicely and it seems very durable thus far. I was excited that it also came with black caps for the bolts. Great product overall

My front plate on my SUV would always bend up in the car wash and I would have to remove it before getting it washed. I installed this and it doesn't bend anymore. Worth the money.

The product description describes this as made from heavy gauge stainless steel.. The term heavy duty used without a measurement or reference is meaningless. Further down the product description the plate is described as 1 mm thick. To me, with experience welding tractor and trailer steel, 1 mm is not heavy duty. I measured the backing plate with my welder gauge, and it fits into the 18 gauge slot, which is .0478 inches or 1.214 mm. Not flimsy, but a thickness which can be bent using bare hands. It is not magnetic, so I assume the description of stainless steel is accurate. Like some other reviewers, my backing plate has one well-finished side. The other side has raised striations which to me appear to have been created by placing that side of the plate on a sheet of corrugated cardboard. With properly applied powder coating that should not happen, so my theory is that the plate was spray painted. Having a bad side is not a problem, though, since it can be hidden with the license plate. I am using the plate on my equipment trailer, and the good side does show. Both the plate and the trailer are new right now, so how things hold up in the weather will be a followup addendum to my review. The holes and the edges of the backing plate are very clean and smooth. I reduced my rating by one star for the plate having a poorly finished side.

Awesome mirror on this piece of stainless steel.

A++++

Front license plates are required in Minnesota and the way it is mounted on my 2018 Nissan Murano left it open to being constantly bent by the car wash despite having a sturdy frame around it. Placing this in back of the license plate in the frame has eliminated the bending! Very happy with the purchase.

Use it as a backing plate for the carwash... No more bent license plate

Got it to strengthen my front license plate and it has done the job.