How To: Better secure your front grill

[Dangermouse]

Security torx are worthless in my experience

Step 1: use flat screwdriver to break off "tit" in center of security torx screw

Step 2: use flat screwdriver to remove now-standard torx

Step 3: profit

[Nicholas R]

Umm...what does your magnetic box stick to on your plastic grill?

The headlight brackets/frames are carbon steel. Perfect for holding onto a magnetic box.

[Notifier]

What if you opened the holes up a tiny bit more in the fascia and put a rivetnut in? Then you wouldn't have to rely on a screw going into plastic to hold it in place.

Actually after I did it I thought to myself something like a speed clip would probably work nice in there. Didn't have any around the house but might do that at a later date to give it a little more bite.

[Notifier]

Security torx are worthless in my experience

+1 to that. I come across both security torx and security allen screws at work, if I don't have my driver set with the security bits in it nearby I can just use a small flathead to get them unscrewed. The only time I have trouble is if they are really torqued in there.

This is my security driver set, I count 42 of what I would consider security bits in there.
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[Bitsyncmaster]

Actually after I did it I thought to myself something like a speed clip would probably work nice in there. Didn't have any around the house but might do that at a later date to give it a little more bite.

When I was at the hardware store looking for the span screws, I checked for an insert to use a machine screw but did not find anything I thought would work good in the plastic supports. Maybe a T nut would work but I just decided the larger #14 screw would hold just as good.

I think if I had the headlights removed, I would make an L bracket. That would be bolted at the back edge of the grill so you could not access it without removing the headlights. Then the other end of the bracket would bolt to the Stainless back plate behind the grill.

[Shep]

Security torx are worthless in my experience

Hence "at the very least". It's still better than a normal torx, if only marginally.

This is my security driver set, I count 42 of what I would consider security bits in there.
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Hard to tell from the blurry picture, but I don't think there's any tri-groove bits in there. Looks like I'll be going that option when I do this to my D.

[Notifier]

Hard to tell from the blurry picture, but I don't think there's any tri-groove bits in there. Looks like I'll be going that option when I do this to my D.

Gotta stop drinking coffee before running out into the garage with the camera... Yea, no tri-groove driver in there. But this bit set has gotten me into a lot of things someone else didn't want me messing with! Actually my favorite bit in the set is the Y shaped bit used for wing nuts. Last time I used it my fingers were too fat to get where they needed and this really helped out. Here's the link with what's in there: http://www.proskit.com/screwdrivers/...curity-bit-set

I'll start carrying around a crow bar!

[Spittybug]

Since I had the bumper off I decided to go ahead and make this mod. Instead of making it removable with the bumper on, I decided to use carriage bolts (SS) with the heads on the outside, nuts on the inside. I couldn't come up with a valid reason to need to pull the grill off, so making it part of the bumper/fascia wasn't an issue for me.

[Shep]

So, uh, what am I looking at there, Owen? I know it's the grill and front fascia, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the orientation of the camera in relation to whatever I'm looking at... Maybe I need a little more visual context?

[cybercusp]

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This is what happens when you don't secure your grill right!