Next up is the
lower FR grille kit, the trademark VW honeycomb grille being one of my favorite automotive details, I had to have it on my little
Ibiza!
My first
problem straight away (nothing's ever easy!) was the fact that I don't have foglights, and I wasn't intending to get them. The holes for the foglights had to be filled.
How could I go about doing this? Something to think about later.
I couldn't be bothered to remove the front bumper to clip out the grille, as I've heard some people do. Instead, I just thought "YOU C*****************************NT!!!!!!!!!!!!" and ripped it out straight, knowing that I wouldn't need it for anything, anyway.
Next up was thinking about something to fill the holes with. My first thought was the original foglight covers on the grille I had ripped out, so I cut some plastic squares out of them.
However, the foglight holes in the new grille weren't curved, as I had thought. So I had to think of some other material to fill them with!
So I butchered some DVD boxes!
I had tried a few types of SUPER glue (like the proper ones that you mix), but none held except for Plastic Padding 'Super Steel', available from Halfords. After my first experiences with other glues, I knew I'd have to reinforce the covers, so they wouldn't break off under air pressure at motorway speeds!
Fibreglassing it may have been a little overboard, but I'd rather be safe, and know that the covers are sitting on solidly.
I next primed the fibreglassed covers, so they wouldn't stick out too much when viewed.
(Don't have a picture of this, though)
The grilles then clipped in nice and easy. I don't miss the foglights at all!