New Style A3 Grille

[a3mart]

i have just managed to get a new style bumper for my a3 (the one with the full grille)
but it has no grille anyone got one or know where i can get one for a good price

[Vertigo1]

Are you changing from the original style grille to the new "full depth" one that was first introduced on the Sportback?

If so, you do realise that you'll need a new bonnet too?

[RickT]

and i think the wings are also different... they cut back an inch further... and the headlights... and the lowers parts of the bumber..

RickT

[a3mart]

**** i hope not
i have seen it done

the lights look the same and so does the lower area where the fog lights are

[Vertigo1]

Don't know about the wings but the bonnet is definitely, positively different as the new, deep grille is narrower than the old one was so the bonnet "cut-out" at the front where the grille fits is a different shape.

As for seeing it done, there are some aftermarket options for fitting the new grille to the old style cars but these are either totally different grilles which merely look a bit like the new style or adapt the new grille to the old bonnet shape.

Here's the ABT grille which just "deepens" the original, wider grille:

http://www.tuningnews.net/news/031030/01.jpg

Here's the genuine new style grille fitted with a piece inserted between the grille and the bonnet to "adapt" the new grille to the old bonnet shape:

http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/images/hfa38pf-s4.jpg

This latter pic clearly shows how the new grille is narrower and thus won't fit straight on to an old style front end.

[a3mart]

cheers for help guys

but i have been looking at the front of mine and the bonnet looks the same as for the hofele one i thought it was a hofele bumper also
the grille i am hoping to get is a s line one which should fit and follow the contour of the bonnett like the abt one
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c380/martynlead/A3Sig2.jpg

[Vertigo1]

If you're saying that you currently have the original style of grille, like the one in the pic you just posted, and that you've purchased a new-style deep s-line grille as used on current models then I'm afraid it won't fit.

The ABT one is just the original grille with some stick on bits to extend the chrome edge over the middle part of the bumper, either side of the number plate. The Hofele one uses a genuine new-style grille but adds an extra piece of plastic around it so that it fills the space left by the old grille, as you can see in the pic.

[a3mart]

nooo i have bought a new bumper off a later spec car with the big grille (abeit no grille)
and i am trying to get a grille for it
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=001&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=110082978559&rd=1&rd=1
like this if it goes cheap enough