is there a front license plate holder?
 

or do i just screw it to the bumper? if there is can someone post a pic of what it is suppose to look like. thanks

Yes, there is a holder that attaches to the bumper for mounting the front license plate. I have one laying around (MD sent it to me many many moons ago) that I no longer need.

yeah!?? want to sell it to me?

do you have to screw it in? My dealer gave me that but i really dont wanna have holes in my bumper. i still have not recieved my plates :)

imola: Yeah it's gonna take a pair, or two of holes...
on my '01, it took 2 pair; not familiar w/new models.
These are tiny holes. GL,md

If I can find it, it's yours.

While I don't drive an X5, I also didn't want to drill holes in the front of my bumper. I made a front license plate bracket that mounts from the bottom. It looks like this:



You should be able to adapt this design to your X5 - details on how it was made are here .

Cool solution - I'm not a big fan of making holes in the bumper either :tsk:

Have you looked in the spare tire well? Mine is located there on the left side of the spare under the cargo floor.