Originally Posted by olli_535d' post='277952' date='May 4 2006, 06:19 AM

Just swapped my grill for a black one and have been reading up on "how to" removal instructions on here before, but wasn't perfectly happy with what I could find, as a lot of them involved scraped fingers etc..

Well, here is how I did it. You can do it rather easy all by yourself, but for one little part it does help if you have someone giving you a quick hand (like the ugly guy in front of my car on the pic) for a few seconds only.

After taking out the lip (rubber lip on plastic liner) that seems to be the bonnet seal on top of your grills (it just pops out) you can see the top clips of the grills. Prise them down and push towards you, so they are not locked anymore. (3 each side)

Now with a Torx 30 undo the 5 screws that hold your front apron on the top

you can now easily move it forward between 1 and 2 inch, so you can get behind it to release the clips towards the center and also the ones to the outside. There are 3 clips on top, one to the centre, one to the outside and 2 at the bottom of the grill. the two bottom clips now come out easy, too, and the complete grill slides out to the front.

Refix your 5 screws on top of apron, slide and clip in the new grills, put the sealer lip back on and that's it.

Took me 20 minutes.

Originally Posted by snikt21' post='407323' date='Mar 26 2007, 05:04 PM

i am giving up. I tried to take off the grill and no luck. Did all of the above steps but it's just too hard to pull that damn clip off!
I am afraid if I pull it off too hard, I'll break the clips. Any suggestion?

Originally Posted by olli_535d' post='277952' date='May 5 2006, 01:19 AM

Just swapped my grill for a black one and have been reading up on "how to" removal instructions on here before, but wasn't perfectly happy with what I could find, as a lot of them involved scraped fingers etc..

Well, here is how I did it. You can do it rather easy all by yourself, but for one little part it does help if you have someone giving you a quick hand (like the ugly guy in front of my car on the pic) for a few seconds only.

After taking out the lip (rubber lip on plastic liner) that seems to be the bonnet seal on top of your grills (it just pops out) you can see the top clips of the grills. Prise them down and push towards you, so they are not locked anymore. (3 each side)

Now with a Torx 30 undo the 5 screws that hold your front apron on the top



you can now easily move it forward between 1 and 2 inch, so you can get behind it to release the clips towards the center and also the ones to the outside. There are 3 clips on top, one to the centre, one to the outside and 2 at the bottom of the grill. the two bottom clips now come out easy, too, and the complete grill slides out to the front.

Refix your 5 screws on top of apron, slide and clip in the new grills, put the sealer lip back on and that's it.

Took me 20 minutes.

Originally Posted by Brodie' post='420856' date='May 3 2007, 09:43 PM

How do you take the rubber lip on plastic liner? Do you need any tools to pull it out? I was kind of afraid to pull harder, it seem pretty tough to get it off.. any suggestion? Thanks in advance..

Originally Posted by cmansbimmer' post='420861' date='May 4 2007, 02:25 PM

It should just slide right off.