How to make a custom badgeless honeycomb grille

poliq

four-by-four fan
Aug 4, 2010
559
2
Røros, NO
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You need:
Cutting pliers
Glue (I used Locktite 435)
2x 1M0853651J Cupra Honeycomb Grille

Time needed:
I spent about 3 hours, painting included.

Cost:
£15 for each 1M0853651J (i needed only one, as I had one)
£5 or less for glue
£? Cutting pliers. Chances are you have access to one.

Hints:

LOOK TWICE, CUT ONCE!
BEAR IN MIND THE ANGLES!


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The new grille, almost a shame to cut it!

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Old one on the left, new one on the right. They weren't 100% identical..

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Press the chrome S out with your thumbs.

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Cut the right hand piece out, (roughly 0,5+1+1+0,5 spaces wide) preferably from the older grille.

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Confirm that it covers about half the area.

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Repeat for the left hand side.

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Cut the S frame out of the grill you're going to use.

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Start trimming the bits to fit.
Remember that the bigger gap you make, the more you have to rebuild.
To this point I only used glue and plastic chips to do this..

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Then glue it in places. Mentioning that the placement are very important shouldn't really be necessary?

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Due to some poor cutting I had to do a couple of small bits! Even harder to do proper than the big ones!

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(...)

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Starting to look like something.

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I cut off the pins at the back, making the whole thing smoother and nicer.
Though I doubt they show from the other side.

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Then I sanded the front to even it.

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(...)

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Theres still a couple of flaws..
Trimmed it some more before I was off to paint it.

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Gave it several layers of matte black. (I painted the other grilles matte black prior to this!)

Results:


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It should be noted that I still need to smooth mine some more, then paint it again.

If you have any comments or questions, please speak! :)
 
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leoncupra2012

Active Member
Mar 7, 2012
657
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It get a dremel with a fine thin grinding stone on it to do all the in between parts to de-burr it all, looks good though i contemplated just using a frame of a old grill and buying some plastic honeycombe grill off ebay and glueing that to the frame then painting then i got a cupra with cupra r front so didnt need to :)
 

Lee-sw20

Guest
Looks good indeed would it not have been easier to get another lower centre grille and trim it to fit inside the upper grille? I.e do it all in one piece?
 

poliq

four-by-four fan
Aug 4, 2010
559
2
Røros, NO
Love it - looks great - I have 2 grills here at home looks like another free job!
Thanks, go ahead!
Fantastic guide buddy with loads of info and pics.
Thanks
It get a dremel with a fine thin grinding stone on it to do all the in between parts to de-burr it all, looks good though i contemplated just using a frame of a old grill and buying some plastic honeycombe grill off ebay and glueing that to the frame then painting then i got a cupra with cupra r front so didnt need to :)
yeah I could use a dremel I guess. No offence, but I wanted the OEM look, not a more or less random mesh.

Looks good indeed would it not have been easier to get another lower centre grille and trim it to fit inside the upper grille? I.e do it all in one piece?
no. I guess the first picture makes it look that way, but the top one is bent in every direction, with the structure still kept horizontal, while thelower one is plain flat. Hope you understand as I doubt you studied one.

look well lad
thanks!

Looks great that's next on my list of jobs to do
Thanks! Lets all have a build-off! :-D
Looks great - nice write up too mate :)
Thanks!
looks the tits mate, would like that look on mine!!
great write up too!

Thanks again. Go ahead, join the the build-off challenge!
 

FOSSIL FUELS

Guest
Great bit of work...

Kind of surprised it hadn't been done sooner :)
 
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