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anyone took 5-6 $$ "gutter guard" at home depot and made a front grill on a stock bumper with it??<p>Just curious cause i went an checked it out today and it dosnt look bad....(a friend turned me on to this idea) i went ahead and bought some ill be putting it on tomorrow...and ill have some pics posted too; if im lucky<p>FYI: the center peice "bar" on my stock bumper was cut out when i bought the car it was a really bad cut but it was in case your wondering so its just a large gap now

Do it if you think it looks good, not because someone says. Personally I think the front end would look horrible without the stock grille so if you can cover it and make things look right, go for it.

many people have done the exact same thing. Gutter guard and the cut-out.
Your going to have a hole on each side if you cut it though.

yea there is two holes on both sides like i said it was already cut out when i bought it kinda sucks but you get what u pay for and i only paid 1600$ (US)

put the grill behind the stock grill.. It still looks good and you dont have the cut outs..that is what i did on my RS./\

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Visual XTC that looks really good! so u jsut did it infront of the stock grill, and u didnt cu anything out? what did u use to secure it in there?

I cut mine out and patched the holes with fiberglass, then bondoed it and sanded it down and then painted over it, it looks stock, And I just skipped out on the mesh stuff, I like it open in the front.

VizualXTC
looks good i only wish mine was still in good condition and not destroyed already ill have pics tonight in school now

What I did is cut the shape of the hole in the mesh leaving little tabs every 5 inches or so. Then I bent the tabs down and used screws to secure them to the bumper. If you look on the far left of the grill there's kind of a "loop" where I've taken some wire and "twist-tied" it to the stock bars. I left them in to give it the form I needed. It actually doesn't look all that good in the light. I painted it black and the paint is falling off. Next time I paint Imma prime it first. I just used a gloss black can of Krylon spray paint.

sorry bout delay of pics i got it on today.....i was called in to work last few days and didnt have time to get it on im chargeing camera battery as im typeing this so i will have some pics on my cardomain site tomorrow or saturday turned out nice i think

Today i did my own version of a ghetto grill on my GS..Since i slammed into an electric box my bumper is jacked up and so is my hood. It looked really bad..so i reshaped my hood as much as i could and i cut the middle out of my bumper. I cut all of it out, so i dont have to worry about the little cut outs...then i put some mesh in the hole..I will post pics tomorrow, so be looking in the image forum for my cars..