License plate screws size?

[Perscitus]

The spec on these also varies between early production vs current production cars and markets (mostly a function of cars with and without the rear license plate holder and older vs newer front license plate adapter, its Americas vs EMEA/APAC flavors).

On an older early production car (roughly <2019) without the license plate holder) swapping out the nylon inserts can affect the optimal screw spec as well. So what fits then isnt neccessarily what fits for OE setups.

 

[Gauss Guzzler]

Why in the f*ck do people say the treads are both meteric and SAE?

They can NOT be both!!!!

Actually it can, kinda. 10-32 and M5 are so similar that it can be difficult to tell the difference. A bit like the way -40C feels a lot like -40F. A 10-32 screw has a major diameter of 4.83mm and a thread pitch of 0.794mm so you can imagine how it'd fit easily in a M5 x 0.8mm nut.

Anyway, Tesla uses regular bolts, not Stupid American English (SAE) so the correct size is M5.