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04-27-2009, 11:17 AM | #1 |
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DIY - Adding Front Lower Grill Mesh
By popular demand, how to eliminate your stock, painted lower grill and add a mesh insert.
(Garm had given me the idea to do this. ) What you will need: Sawzall Wire cutters Black spraypaint (I used Satin Black) Gutter Guard (mesh grill) - I bought mine from Lowe's. Came in a 5-pack for $9. Steps: Using the Sawzall, cut the front, painted rungs of the grill. Don't be precise here, leave some room to clean your cuts up. Remove the ugly black grill that is behind, it's just clipped in. Clean up your cuts, smooth against the bumper. Use the stock black grill as your frame for the new mesh, cut around the outside. Zip-tie the top of your mesh to the frame you made to hold it into place, and begin trimming it to fit the template. Zip-tie all-around the finished product to hold it into place. Mask your bumper to spray the rough edges with black that you cut. Spray the inside edges with black. Go ahead and paint your "grill assembly" black after you cut the extra length off the zip-ties. Insert the grill assembly, clipping into it's stock location. And you're done! Better pic of front to come soon, these are all cell phone pics. Last edited by 33OH; 04-27-2009 at 11:40 AM. |
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nice job :]
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04-27-2009, 12:24 PM | #3 |
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great idea!
you could have also just used black zipties and skip spraying the grille? or did you want it flat black?
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04-27-2009, 12:25 PM | #4 |
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awesome. thanks.
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04-27-2009, 12:26 PM | #5 |
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liking, want to see how deep it looks close up. Thanks for the detailed DIY
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04-27-2009, 12:26 PM | #6 |
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You could have, yeah. I just had white ones laying around, and you can't see them once they're in anyways. The point of painting was to spray the grill.
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04-27-2009, 12:28 PM | #7 |
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04-27-2009, 12:55 PM | #8 |
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Ahh, excellent! I'll be doing this this weekend, assuming it doesn't keep raining :/ but yeah, Ryan, great job!
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04-27-2009, 01:27 PM | #9 |
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04-27-2009, 01:56 PM | #10 |
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Great stuff.
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04-27-2009, 01:58 PM | #11 | |
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how long before the paint starts chipping off?
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04-27-2009, 02:03 PM | #12 |
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Sorry this was in the wrong place, I relocated it for you Ryan
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04-27-2009, 02:18 PM | #13 |
seeing as we all own pocket rockets id say a week.....
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04-27-2009, 02:22 PM | #14 |
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Where can I get one of those man-slaves like in your pictures?
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04-27-2009, 02:23 PM | #15 |
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04-27-2009, 02:39 PM | #16 |
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04-27-2009, 03:05 PM | #17 |
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Yeah, its beyond me why people find the need to be totally rude.
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04-27-2009, 03:53 PM | #18 |
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Doesn't really matter to me. It looks a hell of a lot better than the stock, painted lower grill, and cost me less than $15 bucks.
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