Meshing the grill?

[Matt Johnson]

How do you go about meshing a grill on a 1993 cav? The standard ones has got the grill slats plastic welded in and if you break all that off you wont have the fixing brackets to put it back. Help?

[Matt N]

You need to sandwich the mesh between the slats and the grille surround. Took a bit of head scratching but I managed to do my GSi and it looks really good.

[vauxmaster]

Did the GSi grill on my SRi like Matt has :-

[Matt Johnson]

so, do you cut the plastic out then? Don't really understand what you're saying. Have you got a pic of the otherside of that grill?
cheers

[vauxmaster]

I carefully seperated the front trim (in the pic above) from the back (which has the locating peg's at the bottom)

cut the centre out (honey comb, square's) fit the mesh and put the front trim back on.

I remelted the plastic pin's and used fibreglass filler to hold it together.

Sorry I haven't got a pic of the back and I've not got a digi camera at the mo.

be careful when u've cut the centre out, coz it's a little flimsy till it's all fixed back together.

HTH

[ultracav]

u need to cut the black honey comb mesh out.. dont sandwich them together otherwise wen it coms to fittin the grill wont sit flush with headlights it will slightly stick out and it will look **** trust me..

[LEE69]

Originally posted by ultracav
u need to cut the black honey comb mesh out.. dont sandwich them together otherwise wen it coms to fittin the grill wont sit flush with headlights it will slightly stick out and it will look **** trust me..

aint sure what u did mate but i did like vauxmaster and mine sits neat and flush.

[vauxmaster]

ultracav,

Did u use really thick mesh then?

Must admit I haven't noticed mine sitting proud of the headlight's (sh|tty looking)

Will have to check that!!!

[ultracav]

np mate i used the proper stuff u get from performance shops..
after sandwichin the mesh together i noticed the grill was slightley stickin out meaning it wasent lookin as flush as without the mesh fitted.. i sorted it though 1 of the clips on the black mesh (honey comb) wasent clicked into gsi grill properly doh!!