Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Aesthetics seperating front grill oval--

Just wondering if anyone remembers where to find a picture of spots to drill your front oval if you were going to replace the mesh,etc.--

I'm going to sand the chrome down and paint it black and i don't want to deal with trying to avoid painting my grill mesh--

(would have searched but really just don't know what to search for-- tried 'painted oval', 'seperating oval', etc.)

Pulled this old thread from the Aesthetic FAQ...
http://www.contour.org/archive/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB7&Number=217195&page=&view=&sb=&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

thank you very much

damn that looks harder than I thought

It is actually very easy to do with a dremel. It took me about 15-20 min to seperate the grill.

Yeah, it's easy, just make sure you keep checking your progress. I kept drilling deeper in a few spots and broke some tabs on the chrome oval.

so it's basically the spots where if you were to take it out, you would see something that looks like melted plastic in areas where the 'holes' are shown in the diagram.. and you just dremel or drill straight into them? should the drill fit the size of the hole?

i have trouble sucking up the guts to do stuff like this, so i'm just makin sure haha

I just drilled straight into them.

Let me try to draw an ASCII diagram:

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so that is what is coming from the chrome piece. The top part fits into holes in the black piece. You want to drill that top part away until you have this left:

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--//__\\___

(disregard the dashed lines on the left, they are just spacers)

once you are left with those little tabs, you are going to drill holes in them so you can screw everything back together.