Front bumper grill idea

poloboyben · Post by **poloboyben** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 9:59 am

Saw this on ebay and think it looks really good, especially a silver grille on a silver car:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... gory=64928

What do you think? I can get some of that silver grille, but how hard would fitting be? What exactly would the fitting consist of? I can see how the current black plastic grills would come off easilt, but fitting the new grill looks like it could be tricky.???

Cheers

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:36 am

my mate meshed his front bumper himself. if u dont want much hassle, just buy a bit of mesh(from halfords) and using a set of pliers, cut to shape and bondage glue/fit over the black grills. u dont even have to use a screwdriver or take the bumper off!!

it looks very neat!

Or u can take the bumper off and take the grills out and mesh it from the back. takes more time and hassle tho.

Hope this helps
Cheers
Aaron

poloboyben · Post by **poloboyben** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 11:36 am

Cheers man. Sounds easy and I defo think it looks a lot better,individualises it for sure. Gonna get some mesh grill from halfords and give it a go. How much is the grill likely to be?

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:49 pm

around Â£20 for an arms length (depends how long your arm is

) my mate got a staff discount tho as his g/f works in halfords. lucky b*****d

thebadun · Post by **thebadun** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:07 pm

I like it, but it would depend on which colour your car was. Don't think it would look that good on a silver or jazz blue car, but would be cool on red or dark metallics.

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:57 pm

yeah i agree, if it was silver or sumthing light itll be too shiny!

poloboyben · Post by **poloboyben** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:34 pm

yeh mate, c what u mean, just had a go at virtually modding it on photoshop and on my silver car it doesnt look that good, like aaron said too shiny. But oh well, gd idea for someone with a darker looking car.

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:44 pm

yep

pettsy · Post by **pettsy** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:05 pm

does yours have the mesh front grilles as standard?

i think the best setup is the gti grille and the matching front mesh sections

poloboyben · Post by **poloboyben** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:50 am

Nah, at the minute ive got a silver grill surrounding the VW badge at the front. How much and where could i get a black grill (like the gti one) for trhe front, just surrounding vw badge? How much are the official ones for vw?

jon_poloV · Post by **jon_poloV** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:11 am

i have my front grill colourcoded and on silver cars i recon the more silver the better. the only other thing i have thought about is spraying my lower grills around foglights etc and the gti mesh grill up top silver so that all the grills matched as silver.

pettsy · Post by **pettsy** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:21 am

see this url for the gti grille cost
http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... php?t=4782

i know that out Tdi has mesh lower sections, but the grille is colour coded. if i was to change it i'd just fit the gti grille so that it matched the lower sections.(all honeycomb mesh)

thebadun · Post by **thebadun** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:36 pm

I just swapped all my lower grilles to GTI honeycomb. Cos I got foglights and honeycomb grilles for them and then the middle didn't match cos it was standard, so I just swapped that. It looks really good, much better than original in my opinion and a nice subtle mod. Now I want a GTI front splitter.

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:56 pm

i think it all comes down to personal tastes.
some like lots of aftermarket mesh. some like OE

thebadun · Post by **thebadun** » Wed May 05, 2004 11:40 am

Yeah, thats very true - as you can guess I go for the OE approach, but don't get me wrong, I think that aftermarket can look wicked.

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