united, yeah its obvious he cut away the factory grille inserts. bat can do whatever he wants. he's a special individual.

I can tell they're gone, but I was wondering if it was required to cut them off or the inserts could be installed with them still in place.

little platstic peices hold the stock grill in place, i just cut them off and pulled the blacl grill parts off and put these on.

I used the XXL version.

and no idea on salt and crap rusting them..

This might be a stupid question, but how do you unlatch the hood from the front? Looks like you can't reach through the grill