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Old Feb 21st, 2020, 14:07   #1
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My bonnet release cable snapped so I had to rip the front grille off to access the lock mechanism, however now I need to re-fit the grille and all the bolt studs are snapped, anyone got ideas of how to fix the grille back in, or on the offchance anyone has a V/S40 grille lying around they want to sell?
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Old Feb 21st, 2020, 15:38   #2
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My bonnet release cable snapped so I had to rip the front grille off to access the lock mechanism, however now I need to re-fit the grille and all the bolt studs are snapped, anyone got ideas of how to fix the grille back in, or on the offchance anyone has a V/S40 grille lying around they want to sell?
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I've got a waterfall design grille (the earlier chrome one) that you can have if you like but it has three small screwholes in it around the edges from where it was screwed in to my bonnet after the same thing happened! I replaced it with an eggcrate style grille from a scrapper and held the bolts in place with 2k Plexus branded adhesive (seriously good stuff). Can then attach the nuts as normal.
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This happened to me on my old v40 p2 ended up just using 4 blobs of silicone to stick it back in 😏
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Thanks for the advice I've ended up cable tying temporarily to keep the wife happy, she was not impressed with the toothless grille.
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