sdusniper

last week, while I'm driving on the freeway, a flying big cardboard hit my car and damaged the grille. I bought a new grille and trying to replace it but I just couldn't take the old one out. Can someone teach me how? Some people said I have to take off the bumper...which I don't wanted to, can I just take off the chrome part instead? Thanks

MadLorGLK

Sorry, dont know how

but how much was the grille

sdusniper

My friend works for the body shop so he got it for me at special price $373..original price was $414.

hcetzneb

It ataches from the back ... so to replace it the bumper will need to be pulled.

MtnMachine

Ouch, why do they still do things like that. Part of mdern engineering design concept is easy, low cost assembly and minimal contiguous damage.

You must take of bumper to replace grill?? Why? No benefit, just lack of refinement.

Disappointing.

GLK4MATIC

That sucks! Sorry to hear your ride got damaged. Companies make things difficult for consumers to fix so they will have to come back to get it fixed...more income for them.

mr.mbenz

holly molly... a simple cardboard can do that much damage?
sorry to hear about your grille.
a suggestion...you may want to talk to the service guy at MB to assist. Usually they are helpful if you had bought the part from them directly...
Or, you can go to the bodyshop and drop off some krispy kreme to give you some hints. Food and Booze is a friends' best mate
My 2 cents...

hcetzneb

They did it for accouple of reasons. Before 07 numerous models had grills that popped in from the front but the first issue was theft.. I saw problably 3-4 grills a week get stolen.
also if you hit a pot hole or a bump that was hard enough to jar it loose it could fall out.

wrty. labor on front bumper removal is like 1.2 so a dealer might charge max 150-200
at my dealer we do it for 1hr labor

Ballsofsteel

Can you post a pic of your damaged grill before removal?