I had plans to install a FMIC today. The weather is upper 40's and dry, so about as good as it gets around here for January.
Put the car on ramps and painters tape under the upper grille and on the fenders, to protect where they meet the bumper. Next, removed the two screws in the upper grille and took the next hour and a half trying to pull the damn grill off.
There are supposedly tabs to push with a screwdriver to disengage them and I saw three differently shaped things that might have been the tabs and pressed on them. Nothing budged and did manage to break one, as the screwdriver went right through it. About the only thing that moved was the red stripe at the bottom of the grille started to separate from it. Luckily, that pressed back in with no apparent damage. And yes, I was pulling out, not up, this being a Mk7.5.
So then, I tried to take a picture, but even with flash, the area behind the grille is too dark to show up in the picture. Put everything away in utter defeat and am now here begging for help.
Does anyone have detailed pictures of the tabs on the bottom of the grille and any advice in how to release them? I watched ShopDAP's video and despite claiming he was going to show the tabs, he never did. He made it look so easy and I could probably pick him up and throw him a good distance, but mine was not going to come out in one piece.
This is for a 2019 GTI
Put the car on ramps and painters tape under the upper grille and on the fenders, to protect where they meet the bumper. Next, removed the two screws in the upper grille and took the next hour and a half trying to pull the damn grill off.
There are supposedly tabs to push with a screwdriver to disengage them and I saw three differently shaped things that might have been the tabs and pressed on them. Nothing budged and did manage to break one, as the screwdriver went right through it. About the only thing that moved was the red stripe at the bottom of the grille started to separate from it. Luckily, that pressed back in with no apparent damage. And yes, I was pulling out, not up, this being a Mk7.5.
So then, I tried to take a picture, but even with flash, the area behind the grille is too dark to show up in the picture. Put everything away in utter defeat and am now here begging for help.
Does anyone have detailed pictures of the tabs on the bottom of the grille and any advice in how to release them? I watched ShopDAP's video and despite claiming he was going to show the tabs, he never did. He made it look so easy and I could probably pick him up and throw him a good distance, but mine was not going to come out in one piece.
This is for a 2019 GTI