After a bit of effort today, I finally got the lower front bumper grill off. It was pretty easy once I realized the amount of force needed to take it off. Anyway, I took out the grill with the side deflectors on (each are attached by 4 bolts and are almost impossible to take off while the grill is in the bumper) and now I will be painting the grill silver. My question is the following:
When I go try to put the grill back on, those deflectors attached on the ends of the grill will get in the way and will make it a major PITA to get the grill back in (not to mention the amounts of scratches and nicks my freshly painted grill will accumulate). How important are those deflectors and will I have any problems if I decided to remove them from the grill(...the writing on the deflectors say: "A.C. deflector")?
Thanks!
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