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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 12:44 PM
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Ok so I went out and bought a custom grille piece but now Im having a problem removing stock grille and license plate holder. I have everything off except the two middle clips at the top. Im having trouble getting them to come free. Are they screwed in? How can I get these clips off? Thanks for the help.


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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 01:22 PM
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just pull really hard dude....grab towards the middle and pull it out....
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yea gotta just yank the **** out of it...if arent going to reuse the stocker then theres no worries
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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 01:27 PM
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man up and put some muscle into it
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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 01:36 PM
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what they said. I know how it sounds lol but it works.
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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 01:49 PM
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just put your feet against your bumper and pull. That way your bumper doesnt crack
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yea, dont yank it out, just pull it off.
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i started to pull on mine a couple times but i didnt trust it. So i went ahead and pulled off the entire facia. It really wasn't bad at all. But hey 90% of the people here just pull theirs off and they are fine. I was just too big of a *****.

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if you plan on putting it back like if you sell the car i'd take the time to take it off right.
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One hand on the bumper cover, the other on the grill and tug! It should pop off pretty easy.
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Yeah, just pull on it hard enough and it will come out.
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Yeah I did that and it cracked my bumper around holes. FML. I just cut the tabs off.
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Mine came out with a few hard pulls. Didn't mess anything up luckily, figured it would because I was treating it like it owed me money.
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i just cut my **** off....
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see what you do is get a rope, tie one end to a tree/sign/fence post/another vehicle/etc and the other end to the grill. make sure there is some one there you can tell "hold my beer and watch this". start your car and put it in reverse then simply back up, go as fast as you want. the faster the better. then wala its off. then go back and finish your beer. if in the chance your camaro does not run/drive, thats ok tie one end to the grill and the other end to another vehicle and then you can tell some one "hold my beer and watch this". get in the other vehicle and put it in drive, not reverse and proceed to give it as much gas as you want. again the more the better. have fun.
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Originally Posted by v8sten
see what you do is get a rope, tie one end to a tree/sign/fence post/another vehicle/etc and the other end to the grill. make sure there is some one there you can tell "hold my beer and watch this". start your car and put it in reverse then simply back up, go as fast as you want. the faster the better. then wala its off. then go back and finish your beer. if in the chance your camaro does not run/drive, thats ok tie one end to the grill and the other end to another vehicle and then you can tell some one "hold my beer and watch this". get in the other vehicle and put it in drive, not reverse and proceed to give it as much gas as you want. again the more the better. have fun.
nice story bro.

I just cut the tabs. 2 of them were already broken so I wasn't going to reuse the grill.
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but for real i just pulled mine off
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