Angarak Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Anyone here fitted a Grille-Tech Grill to their stock front bumper?....if so what did you have to do in order to fit it? I've recently purchased one and attempted to fit it today. However, there is no means of getting access to the back of the front bumper once the grill is in place, so I cannot fix the grill in place using the metal clips & tie clips that come with it. Excuse my lack of technical knowledge, but here goes... At the bottom of my front bumper I have an active spoiler, above that sits a plastic undertray which prevents access from the bottom of the bumper. I was thinking that I could remove the active spoiler and undertray to gain access to the back of the bumper from underneath the car. However the undertray appears to be 'locked' into position with several "starred pressure washers" from the top of the bumpers air scoop (see pic). If I removed these washers so I could remove the undertray I wouldnt be able to get them back on when I come to re-fit the undertray as the grill would be blocking my access to the top of the air scoop in the bumper. I therefore thought of removing the front bumper, fitting the grill and re-fitting the bumper...BUT...there is another problem. On the edge of the bumpers air scoop is a piece of black plastic trim that is fixed in place with plastic screws. These screws go though the trim and into the bumper...and I think into something else below the bumper (I cant see due to lack of access). So again if I removed this black plastic trim before removing the bumper, I would not be able to re-fit it as I wouldnt have access to it to fit the plastic screws back in. Another option came to mind...remove the radiator...at which point common sense kicked in and told me to post on here to save a lot of ball-ache...so hopefully one of you can help. It should look something like this when fitted: http://images.grille-tech.com/200409030251393.jpg Cheers Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parksy Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I got one fitted to mine. Just dropped the undertray from the car, mounted it then popped the tray back on again. Was quite a long job just with having to take the tray off and on... millions of bolts, twenty odd I think, some in some nice hard places to get too!! Can't wok out from you pic what I'm looking at to be honest. But the front of the undertray had 4/5 bolts which came from the black plastic lip in the mouth part of the bumper (where you have marked 'god knows where these go'). There was also a counple of star type studs to stop this plastic part being removed after the nuts were out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angarak Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 Thanks Parksy, I'll take another look @ it tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason m Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 can these be mounted at the back of the bumper to give the appearance of the bumper being meshed inside ? Anyone got any pictures ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CARLOS Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 hiya, i need a mess grill and that looks just fine...can you please tell me where i can purchase one from if you know? regards, carlos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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