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Brother Mike:

 

As you can see from my signature photo,  I also hated the look of the stock position, and I lowered mine.  Very easy to do.

 

From my earlier post:

 

It was actrually much easier than I expected, extremely simple, actually.

 

The stock front license mount is attached with 3 pop rivets.  These must be drilled out.  I went to the dealer's parts department and bought 3 replacement rivets, partly to see what I was getting into, partly to see what size hole to drill (1/4 inch diameter will do), partly for possible use in my new mounting, and partly as a hedge in case I needed to revert to the original configuration.

 

With the rivets out, I decided to replace the rivets with screws.  I found some black  rubber grommet nuts just about the right size. Actually they were a bit oversize.  I could have drilled the holes out a bit larger, but (still hedging) I decided to shave the grommets down.  (Having it to do over, I would enlarge the holes.)  I pressed the grommet nuts into all 3 original rivet holes and fitted them with machine screws and washers.  At this point I had a removable, replaceable, mount for the original position.

 

The stock unit mounts in three places.  The two top places are secured to black plastic between the horizontal chrome grille strips.  The lower centered one is secured to the body paint colored bumper cover.  To make the mounting in the lower posirion, I simply turned the mount upside down, retaining the single fastening location.  I then secured the new bottom two fastening locations to the lower grille slate with (releasable) nylon tie-wraps.  Prior to tightening down, I lined the (new) bottom edge of the mount with a rubber piece I made by splitting a length of automotive vacuum hose.  I hoped this would both prevent shifting an protect the paint from being marred. 

 

I simply left the two upper black grommet nuts in place.  They are hardly visible.  Actually they are less visible than the holes.

 

Actually,

Jack

i know this is very old topic but i just got new to me cmax and really like licence plate placed lower . so i found this instruction ; and i made it even easier to do it.

first of all thank you Jack for great instruction!  

what i did was , i drilled out 2 upper rivets and i left lower one which holds bumper. And i just turned the mount upside down.  the rivet is so strong there so it is enough to hold the mount plate without moving. took me 1 minute to do it all .

You can change the information displays between miles/kilometers and Fahrenheit/Celsius. The actual speedometer is an analog gauge so something in the instrument panel would need to be changed by the dealer - if possible.

As jdbob mentioned, all the displays other than the actual speedometer can be changed. The speedometer, even though the metric markings are smaller, likely isn't worth bothering to change -- at least that was my experience.

 

I'm guessing the car you are buying either has the Daytime Running Lights installed or have set up with a dealer to turn them on.

thank you for the answers.   i completely forget about daytime lights. but i'm guessing it should be few minutes work in computer of the car. right?

I just bought cmax from the states and it's coming to canada. So i wonder is it possible to change to metric system? also AC from F to celcius ?   i noticed it has speedmeter bigger no.in miles and small in km; is it possible to change visa versa ?

thanks a lot. very excited in the car.