dwaine

Is there a DIY on how to do this??? (Make a badgless upper grille out of a bottom OEM grille)

tCtCtC

there was but it was locked

but basically, dremel out all of the upper grille. get ur lower grille, and line it up to the upper. drill a hole into both, and use small zip ties to hold it together. trim away all the excess and install

Sciontistical_One

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Why can't someone just make a new DIY for this? I'm planning to do this soon (I have the extra lower grille sittin' on my back seat). I wouldn't get banished from this forum if I did a DIY myself, would I?

yellowxhoodie

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please fkin do it.
and if it does get banished who cares.
just make a copy of it in Word and everytime someone starts a thread like this just PM them the instructions.

i think the last one got removed bcuz some d-bag took the instructions and was selling them on ebay or something.

tC_insomniac

^^ x2. im interested in the DIY. go for it!

ilovemytC

if I still had a lower grille and the chrome trim, I'd make a DIY...anyone wanna send me their's

dwaine

^^^^ I would pay someone to do it if I had an extra chrome trim piece and a OEM lower grille.

Sciontistical_One

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well... my attempt at a DIY was a failure... heck, my upper grille doesn't even look that great to me. I've got gaps and there are parts that are showing that shouldn't be seen.

I think my next attempt should yield better results, but now I gotta wait for another lower grille to come up available... oh well, occasional failures are a part of the game.

We only learn from our mistakes and the failures make us stronger (or smarter).

x_Batman_x

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yeah I attempted to make one... big bag of FAIL haha.
gosh that thing was awful...

chubbykai

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some make a diy please

sc_irony

My car still has no front grill since Ive been trying and failing to get this right..lol

chubbykai

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LOL i tried but failed miserably too

a_german_named_hans

get a lower grill. Dremel the bottem part of the grill off, up to that little indentation. Get the trim. Dremel the last outer 2 tabs off the trim. take the dremel outside, and keep trimming the back piece off as necessary to make the trim ziptied to the grill fit. If you do it right you can actually get the trim to hold the entire thing in place. You can zip tie the grill into the bumper for extra assurance. I'd make a diy but i already did my grill.

x_Batman_x

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I can't help but feel that if you got up close you'd be able to tell that it is ghetto rigged. I dunno, maybe its just me...

a_german_named_hans

nah dude you cant tell.






if you just take your time and think it through, you can actually zip tie it so that the zip ties aren't visible.

for instance. if you take the chrome piece out, you'll see that on the bottem it actually has sort of a lip. you take a small drill and drill holes through that just enough so that it goes through the lip and stops before the actual trim. and you can use that to zip tie the trim to the grill and the bumper. and for the top portion you can just use the screw holes which are also not visible from the outside since they're on the outside of the trim and behind the bumper. Its really not that hard, you just gotta think twice and cut once.

I'll take closer up shots tomorrow just to prove you cant see the zip ties.

yellowxhoodie

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k ive got some grills coming.
im gonna try to attempy to make a DIY for everyone.
but no promises, bcuz ive never done this before. lol

Sciontistical_One

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^^^good luck, it was harder than I thought...

a_german_named_hans

it is tough. took me about 3 days to do it. But as my mom always says. No one ever asks how long it took to make it, they only ask who made it.

yellowxhoodie

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im not saying i think its gonna be easy. but ive tackled some pretty crazy isht before so i think ill manage. just waiting for the grills to get here.

Sciontistical_One

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^^^ if it's anything like your DIY for your tails, it'll be very good.