Metal Grille
#11
06-28-2007, 12:08 AM
RE: Metal Grille
Brian, thanks for your thoughts. It is nice to know I'm not the only one that's thinking along those lines.
As for upgrading to the '98-plus...I've decided not to waste my money. Instead I'll get a cheap black plastic '96 grille. Phantom grilles are hard to find, and even when you do, they're expensive. I maytable that project for later.
I think what I'll focus on instead is performance enhancements for now.
As for upgrading to the '98-plus...I've decided not to waste my money. Instead I'll get a cheap black plastic '96 grille. Phantom grilles are hard to find, and even when you do, they're expensive. I maytable that project for later.
I think what I'll focus on instead is performance enhancements for now.
#12
07-02-2007, 07:45 AM
RE: Metal Grille
ORIGINAL: BrianMichaels1
I too am dissatisfied with all the plastic on these Blazers. It's just that about 1 in 2,000 of us care at all that it's all plastic so the auto manufacturers think it doesn't matter. I care, and eventually I'll probably pay to have custom made metal parts such as the grille, and many many interior parts. I'm basically going to look at it as if I'm designing an interior for the 1950's and everything that should be metal will be. Not rational or cost effective I know. But I will never be selling my Blazer as long as I live. It may be on it's 8th engine and over a million miles by the time I die, and that's fine. Everything that must be replaced along the way, will be. And I'll spend 100 times less money than all the people who sell their car every few years doing so. SO, it is worth it to be to make certain things more solid for that tougher feel instead of that....plastic creakey cheap feel.
I too am dissatisfied with all the plastic on these Blazers. It's just that about 1 in 2,000 of us care at all that it's all plastic so the auto manufacturers think it doesn't matter. I care, and eventually I'll probably pay to have custom made metal parts such as the grille, and many many interior parts. I'm basically going to look at it as if I'm designing an interior for the 1950's and everything that should be metal will be. Not rational or cost effective I know. But I will never be selling my Blazer as long as I live. It may be on it's 8th engine and over a million miles by the time I die, and that's fine. Everything that must be replaced along the way, will be. And I'll spend 100 times less money than all the people who sell their car every few years doing so. SO, it is worth it to be to make certain things more solid for that tougher feel instead of that....plastic creakey cheap feel.
#13
07-15-2007, 08:21 PM
RE: Metal Grille
My grille is made of ABS plastic. It holds up fine and looks like chrome metal.
#14
07-15-2007, 10:12 PM
RE: Metal Grille
My overlays are metal, but if I F up the plastic grille... I'll just get a new one off Ebay for 80 bucks!
BTW Speed, I thought your new grille was busted from the wreck... wait a minute... you can get a new one for 150 bucks! ROFL!
Anyway, eventhough the Blazer does have a plastic grille, every other body panel except the rear quarters are metal anyway.
BTW Speed, I thought your new grille was busted from the wreck... wait a minute... you can get a new one for 150 bucks! ROFL!
Anyway, eventhough the Blazer does have a plastic grille, every other body panel except the rear quarters are metal anyway.
#15
07-15-2007, 10:49 PM
RE: Metal Grille
Haha. I was describing my grille as though it is still on my car. lol. it did get wrecked. it is currently sitting in my garage in 4 pieces... but whatever, you can still check out the pics in my photobucket album and imagine that my blazer still has that chrome grille on it....lol
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