Front bumper side grills

[Nigelgta]

One of the small side wire grills on the front bumper of my 2009 Granturismo S appears to need sticking back in place. About half of it doesn't seem to be attached. Seems previous owner or garage had double sided taped it but that's had it. Any suggestions for how best to stick this back in permanently?

 

[Ewan]

Glue

 

[Gazcw]

Glue

Gotta love an in depth detailed and accurate response.

 

[Nigelgta]

Nice one, I suppose I asked for that. And what sort of glue might that be....sticky? Just found a great front bumper refurb thread, so I'll give that a proper look at. Sorry, should have looked properly earlier.

 

[CatmanV2]

Hot glue gun would do nicely I think

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[Gazcw]

Nice one, I suppose I asked for that. And what sort of glue might that be....sticky? Just found a great front bumper refurb thread, so I'll give that a proper look at. Sorry, should have looked properly earlier.

Gorilla obviously! Or Sticks like S**t

 

[BDM]

Mine need doing also as the clip seems non existent on one side. Was looking to pop them off and spray them black again as look a bit faded. Not sure how easy that is though?!?

 

[Scaf]

I tried applying hot glue from the front without much success, but when it came back from Matts place it had magically attached itself

 

[bigbob]

Glue

+1 as it works. I did this after a pheasant head butted one of mine whilst I was hammering up through Glenshee. Glued back in place nicely as some of the clips were broken. Mine could do with a repaint as they tend to rust over time so I might just buy another pair as they are quite cheap. IIRC the front undertray needs to come out to replace them.

 

[MarkMas]

One of the small side wire grills on the front bumper of my 2009 Granturismo S appears to need sticking back in place. About half of it doesn't seem to be attached. Seems previous owner or garage had double sided taped it but that's had it. Any suggestions for how best to stick this back in permanently?

Just heat it up until it is red hot, and then drop a pork chop on it.

https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/gts-grill-refurb.29184/page-2#post-785320
https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/ghibli-grill-mod.31310/#post-779976
https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/repair-time.31180/#post-775414
https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/repair-time.31180/#post-775273

Ok, I may be losing this battle.

 

[BDM]

+1 as it works. I did this after a pheasant head butted one of mine whilst I was hammering up through Glenshee. Glued back in place nicely as some of the clips were broken. Mine could do with a repaint as they tend to rust over time so I might just buy another pair as they are quite cheap. IIRC the front undertray needs to come out to replace them.

Ahh cool. i saw the grills were about £220 if i remember. Mine look abit ever so slightly dis-coloured and its slowly bugging me more and more LoL

 

[Nigelgta]

Just heat it up until it is red hot, and then drop a pork chop on it.

https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/gts-grill-refurb.29184/page-2#post-785320
https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/ghibli-grill-mod.31310/#post-779976
https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/repair-time.31180/#post-775414
https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/repair-time.31180/#post-775273

Ok, I may be losing this battle.

Someone needs to tell parts companies like Eurospares that grammatically they're not cooking on gas with their use of 'grill' rather than 'grille' . Still, seems like everyone knows what we're talking about....and not a pork chop in sight....

 

[safrane]

Many years ago my friends and I would enter a hotel in Blackburn to tell them their S in their name was upside down (small bit at the bottom rather than top). We were normally asked to leave... maybe because we were ******.