DIY mesh grill

[Dy_]

Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!

Aim: Mesh grill

Required:
• Knife
• Phillips head screw driver
• 10mm spanner
• Mesh from Super Cheap Auto $30 ( colours: black, sliver, pink or blue)
• Pliers
• Big piece of material

Steps:
1.Place the material under the bumper. This is so when the bumper comes off it doesn’t get scratched by the concrete.

2.Remove the 5 clips holding the grill using a knife.
Note: keep these where they will not go missing or be blown away by the wind.
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3.Start removing the bumper. Yes it seems too much to remove the bumper just to change the grill but it’s a must reason being there are 4 more clips holding the grill onto the bumper underneath. Remove the two bumper clips, two 10mm bolts underneath and then the two screws on the side.
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4.Flip the bumper over and remove the 4 clips mentioned above and detach the grill from the bumper
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5.There will be 9 little screws on the back of the grill that need removing
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6.Detach the silver part from the black.
Then comes the cutting! Using any knife cut the inside of the original grill out.
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7.Cut the mesh grill to size and put it over the grill.
Note: watch out for the little things that stick out. You may need to cut around it. Shown in photo
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8.Screw EVERYTHING back on. And you’re done!
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Other comments

There was another post similar to this by EK4R but it didn’t have all the steps involved in getting to the grill so I decided to write this up.

[Jord]

looks decent dude... u didnt cut urs out like EK4R did? just sikaflexed the mesh to the coloured part im guessing?

[steve88]

i was about too do this but i found all the mesh i could fine doesn't look right ... its way too small

[tommmoe]

much rather buy the stuff on ebay, if its poor quality ill just make it my self..

[Spoon-Accord]

gotta use the backing of the mesh. its the support bracket that holds the color frame thing together,

[Jord]

with step 6 how did u detach the silver bit from the backing? i brough a 97 grille yesterday and it all seems to be one piece :S

[Dy_]

yeah i did..but its on an ej8. for your ek1 its abit different, but not impossible to do. A mate of mine did his just the other day..i can ask him how he did it for ya if you want?

[mrwillz]

blk mesh ftw

[Dy_]

yep! mines black now

[Jord]

that would be sweet. it seems mine is all one piece! so attaching the mesh could be difficult. any info would be great! cheers Jordan ps add me to msn offthe_edge@hotmail.com

[Ray_mon]

Dy_, where'd you get the mesh from? i looked at bunning's and stuff, couldn't find any decent ones.

[Dy_]

that would be sweet. it seems mine is all one piece! so attaching the mesh could be difficult. any info would be great! cheers Jordan ps add me to msn offthe_edge@hotmail.com

sorry dude been abit busy..i'll get to you soon!

[Dy_]

raymon, go to a supercheap auto store...you can get a huge piece for 30$[enough for 4 mesh grilles]..sometime they have it on sale for like 23$.
If not go to autobarn..they sell smaller pieces for about 15$[enough for one mesh grille]

someone has also told me they used garden mesh and it cost them 1$ from a bargain store lol. looks pretty much identical

[adu]

raises hand ..

that was me DY lmao

garden mesh is the shiz :D

[Jord]

thats cool mate look forward to hearing from u :)

[steve88]

i did it myself on a EK 96-98. its alot harder because those clips in the EK 99-00 dont exist, so if you tie it down to the screws that are screwed onto the bumper bar then you cant screw the screws in.
also another problem, the mesh has to be trimmed VERY tight or else it impedes in again the screws screwing into the bumper bar.

im gonna brain storm tonight some way to fix the mesh onto the grill without cable ties, probably will end up using clear silicon on the outside borders.

[Spoon-Accord]

well i just bought one from ebay

i did a backyard job in spraying it
and it came out the kootz.

will post somepictures up very soon when it dries lol

kenny

[Gio]

Nice work man, ill do the write up on meshing a mugen grill when i do mine as there is only 1 piece