Now get all of your supplies together and get ready to get busy.
You are going to need to cut the mesh to just bigger than the grill openings. You will need to leave opening for the tabs to go back into the grill when you re- install it. Also you have to leave room to get the socket in there to re- install the front badge. I forgot until right before installation and then had to trim the mesh to allow the tabs to go through.
After you get the pieces cut out then you will be left with this.
With the mesh out of the way its time to paint the grill the color of your choice. I chose black to go with my Blue/Black theme.
Let the paint dry completely and then lets attach the mesh. I don't know how but my pics of this step disappeared off my camera...but you can figure out how to do that.
I just placed the mesh on the back of the grill and placed heavy-ish objects on it to hold it in place. Then I mixed and applied the epoxy to hold it in place. I didn't use the epoxy on every inch of the grill to hold it. I just put some on every 3 or 4 inches, It is strong stuff so use in a ventilated area.
When you are done with the gluing, you will have this. I dented the mesh while gluing (as you can see) so be careful..it was easily fixed though
Now wait about an hour or so for the epoxy to really dry and then install it in your bumper. It is a little harder to get it back in than it is to get it out...lol You have to get it back in at the perfect angle to get the grill to sit on top of the foam and line up the tabs.
To get the tabs back in, just hold the front of the frill and the back of the tab and push together, some may not click together until you get a lot of the tabs back in. Now reinstall the bowtie and then the hood latch...IN THAT ORDER!!! it is hard to get the bowtie back in with the hood latch back on. I also dented it putting it back in the car(as you can see) but it too was easily fixed.
I will update the DIY as soon as I get the Bondo and mesh painting done.