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How do you remove the bottom grille, the ones next to the head light, I got the to clips undone but could get the top part off. I'm going to paint my grille black, and spray the chrome with red paint meant for chrome. And I have an overlay in the mail for the Pontiac symbol(reflective black & red).

I think they are those pins at the top and tabs on the bottom. could be wrong though. I've only had my grill pieces off at the bottom by the fog lamp. Those are just clips... I found that out when I hit a rabbit and only one clip was holding it on lol.

Quote, originally posted by VforVIBE » I'm going to paint my grille black, and spray the chrome with and paint meant for chrome. And I have an overlay in the mail for the Pontiac symbol(reflective black & red).That's gonna look sweet. Be sure to post pics when ur finished.

Most def, I hope I don't hit any love bugs alone the way, I won't have a week for the paint to become fully chip resident. But I think it will be fine.

interesting... looking forward to seeing pics.

yea im not sure on an 05 and up but its farly easy on the 03-04 models. but cant wait to see the pics.

Volkswagen Gti style, eh. My mind is telling me that what you are doing should look good, so prove me right.

I hope it looks good too. I should have pics up Wed maybe Tue. But, my decals for the arrow won't be in for a while, it's a long way from Canada.

haha yeah it takes some time for the decals to get there but once you get them you feel like its christmas and want to open it and put them on lol but good luck on the mod looking forward to seeing how it turns out

The two top grills next to the headlights come off by unscrewing the 2 top screws for each and by pressing on the 3 bottom tabs.

Quote, originally posted by VforVIBE »How do you remove the bottom grille, After mowing down several suicidal jack rabbits the grills came out by themselves. Now it is a one piece section of fireplace screen covering the bottom opening, I think it even looks better than the plastic originals.

Quote, originally posted by JohnC »Now it is a one piece section of fireplace screen covering the bottom opening, I think it even looks better than the plastic originals. lol

Here are some pics.

That looks Kick A$$!!!! Nice job, Kelly! I love it!

Now all I have to do is get the headlights painted black.

that side view looks bad a$$... you should just buy some 03-04 lights form a junk yard and youll have the black headlights... well sort of.

Quote, originally posted by Mrizzle05 »that side view looks bad a$$... you should just buy some 03-04 lights form a junk yard and youll have the black headlights... well sort of. They came painted black? Do they fit an 06? (one more) What do you mean 'sort of'?

the 03-04 head light the housein was blacklike this:and then the 05+ headlight:

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Looks good...this is what your '05 headlights look like painted black.I'll attach another pic in a minute...for now check out my sig pic

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nice... i wish i could get ahold of some 03-04 lights... it would look good with my silver & black color scheme!

PHXLava...did you paint your stock headlights housings or swap some 04 and earlier housings? I like that look.That garnet metallic grille trim looks sweet too.

he painted them a glossy black. the 03-04 are a flat black paint.

I like how that looks alot!