I removed my front plate holder, didnt need to take off the front fender,
if you take off the plate you can see 3 plastic pins that hold it on, if you get a punch and knock out the center then the pins pop right off, then I cleaned up the area, filled the holes with a tube of body filler, sanded it down then painted it with the paint from ford

took the whole of umm maybe an hour, plus the time it took for the filler to dry

'00 T-Red SVT
No Res + Mystery Exhaust
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