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escheat1

escheat1

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An '04 Summit White Z-71 WBH rolled up to the store today. The owner came in and I told him he should go back to the dealer and get the rest of his AV. He looked puzzled so I pointed to my cladded Av. "go back and tell them to give you your cladding" "Oh no", he said, I dont like the cladding.

Anyway, he wanted to know if I had a front license plate bracket for his WBH. The screws are there as the dealer's tag was there, but the bottom part of the bumper sticks out which makes the tag stick out.

I wrote the fan club's web address on the back of one of my business cards and my handle. He wanted an Av for a long time but wanted to wait for the bugs to be worked out. I again pointed to mine and told him it was one of the first Av's "9/01" and that it never saw the inside of a service department. Given all of the thngs missing in the later Av's, He should have jumped on it in '02.

Turns out our potential member is a phamacist like Yakmar and ducopharm. I hope he stops by and joins. I told him that if a tag bracket exists for the front of a WBH, then someon on the site knows about it. He also seemed quite shocked that there ar over 9,000 of us here.

Sunday 11/30/03 Somers Point NJ - Advance Auto Parts.
 
escheat1, just in case you are looking, I found a PDF file for the brochure at the following
http://www.chevyavalanchefanclub.com/resources/owner_info.pdf

Perhaps we can get to 10.000 members by Christmas :B:
 
Now I have the same question.? I just got a 2006 Z71 WBH and the lower bumper sticks out farther than the screws.? How is everyone putting on their front license plate?? Is there a special bracket?? My salesperson said that GM doesn't offer one.

By the way, I am over in Germany right now and met a guy at the base who actually drove his lifted Av over debris during Katrina.  He said it worked like a champ.

Thanks,

Tom
 
Had the same problem with my 2004 Silverado.  Get the dealership parts department to order the bracket for the 04 Silverado / Sierra.  (May not even show under Silverado, but it will list under Sierra).  Flip it one way for the Sierra, upside down and it fits the Silverado / WBH Avalanche.
 
You don't wanna see my bracket (still have it in the garage though).? Some moron didn't realize it was a simple "flip it over" job when he got it, and saw that the frame edge still didn't line up properly for the lower valance on the Silvy.

So what did he do- return the frame to the dealership?? No.
Give it to someone with a Sierra?? No.

Mod the frame to make it fit.? DING-DING.? We have a winner!

I basically hacked away at the edges of the frame until it would lay flat over the protruding plastic on my bumper, then bought some additional hardware from my local Advance to mount it so that I liked the appearance (hole spacing is different on the Sierra than the Silverado too- so if you don't reverse the frame you end up doing some extra work for that too? :E:).

It wasn't until well after I'd modded n mounted mine that I saw a post over on one the truck forums where someone else had flipped theirs.? That was also how I saved my father from messing up his own plate mount when he bought his.? *His* is mounted the way GM intended, and took very little work to put on.? :p

The only thing I have left to add is that the plate doesn't sit perfectly plumb when the bracket is mounted the way GM intends.? If I recall my father's truck right, it actually tilts a bit down toward the ground.? Still looks good though.? :)

(If you absolutely beat me over the head to see my modded bracket I'll try to take some pics and post them.? But if I do, keep in mind that I wasted a lot of time and with it off the truck it's an obvious hack job compared to simply flipping the bracket in the first place.  I don't have any pics that I can find of it on the truck, even though I know I took some at one time.  On the truck it looked good, but that's because I'd also put a plate shield over the plate, along with some of those chromed screw covers you can buy at most auto parts stores.)
 
I found an album of the truck pics I took before on one of the other sites I'm a member of.  Sorry for the size of the images, but something strange is going on over there now and I was unable to get the original full sized images, just these:

Side view of the installed modified bracket.  Looks fairly good at this range and size.  Gotta get up really close to tell that the profiled edge was cut, not a perfect fit all along the edge, and still a bit rough.  But it more than served the purpose.
SilveradoPlateProfile.jpg


Front view of the bracket.  With my mods it actually was as plumb as I'd have wanted from any factory unmodded bracket.
SilveradoPlate.jpg
 
It should.  Just flip the bracket upside down compared to what the instruction sheet included with it shows.  If I had photos of my father's truck I could show you what that looks like too.
 
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