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Old Nov 15, 2016 | 07:37 PM
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How do you guys feel about the "no grille" look? I can't decide whether to remove mine or not. If I do I'm gonna plastidip the bumper part behind the grille. Should I do it?

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Old Nov 15, 2016 | 08:48 PM
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I did mine and filled the holes. rattle canned it and it looks mint. i don't know how to post pics anymore or id show you. i think it looks best
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Yea fill in the holes and get some black mesh for the big openings on both sides...seen a couple like that and they looked good..
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Anything is better than the factory plastic grill.. whether you fill the holes and paint or not.
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Old Nov 15, 2016 | 10:07 PM
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I did mine and filled the holes. rattle canned it and it looks mint. i don't know how to post pics anymore or id show you. i think it looks best
Use tinypic.com! It has the copy paste URL for forum boards. I wanna see before I decide to do it since once I do the classic "yank" method on the stock grille I can't reuse it lol
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Old Nov 15, 2016 | 10:27 PM
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Damn that looks amazing! Did you use actual paint or plastidip?
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Any grille, even the stock grille, looks much better than pulling it off and leaving the holes visible. IMO it looks foul unless you at least fill the holes.
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The holes do look bad, but surely it can't be as bad as the license plate mount that's drilled into the stock grille 😭
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Originally Posted by INFERNY
The holes do look bad, but surely it can't be as bad as the license plate mount that's drilled into the stock grille ��
When you remove the grille without filling and painting the holes, it looks unfinished - like something has obviously been removed or has fallen off. Sloppy IMO. The stock grille and/or license plate mount might not be your styling preference, but at least they look "finished/complete", rather than "missing/incomplete." Grille delete is fine as long as you fill the holes.
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Well I found a good alternative to the stock grille delete! I got a black powder coated billet grille off Amazon for $40! Only shame is that it's going to require drilling into the bumper
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was going to do this mod but ran across a nice SLP bowtie grille. I think it looks WAY better than the no grille but anything looks better than the factory grille
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