[pluckydks]

Max Well I should've replied to this months ago when I moved back to the States but it seems this thread was revived. I was worried about this when I picked up my car Stateside because I had the new plate holder. I went to several dealers between Galveston (where I picked it up at) and San Antonio and no one had the old plate holders anymore. When I brought it up to the dealer in San Antonio, they gave me a pack of screws that come in the hardware pack that comes inside every new car.

The screw is a mix of the two you have pictured, where it is still self tapping, but short enough to not go through the plate holder. You guys that are having issues with getting the paint scratched, your dealer might have been using screws that came for something else?