Late grill on early front end

[welshside 10]

I've currently got an aftermarket 2 slat grill with eyebrow which is faded grey and doesn't look the best.

 

I bought a nice 3 slat grill with badge on ebay off a 90 16v and thought it would fit straight on to my 91 g60. VW dont make life that easy though because the bottom tabs are in the wrong place.

 

That doesn't seem to much of a problem though, reading about on here people have cut the bottom tabs off and re-glued them to fit in the bumper slots.

 

Before I butcher a perfectly good grill can someone confirm the top tabs will line up because I haven't seen any threads mentioning them, and will the grill line up fine?

[16VG60 1]

I have adapted my own late grille to fit early front panel and can confirm the top tabs do line up without modification.

[welshside 10]

Thanks, I'll see if I can move the bottom tabs on the weekend without glueing my hands to the grill.

[Dec 1]

The other problem with fitting the late grille to an early spec car is that it wont sit flush with the headlights without a fair bit of modification. I ended up relocating the lower tabs and then taking about 5mm off the whole inner/radiator side of the grille to make it fit flush.

[welshside 10]

It's never straightforward and simple when working with corrados. I'll chop off the tabs, see how it's going to fit, then go from there. Thanks

[davidwort 0]

Either fit late headlights as well or keep the original grille, anything else is a bodge.