Thought I'd try out a magnetic front plate after seeing marka87uk's thread.
Fairly straight forward, the hardest part was removing the old plate from the plinth!
Started by cleaning both the front and backside of the grill and wiping over where the magnets would sit with some white spirit.
Here's everything I used:
Ignore the plate surround, I just put the magnets on there to stop them sticking together!
Next I roughly measured the gaps and glued the magnets onto the plate. (With araldite)
Then covered with gaffer tape (hopefully this will last
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And once the araldite had dried I simply held the plate up agasint the grill and let the remaining magnets fall (quite quickly) onto the back of the grill.
Next was to individually remove each magnet and stick back on. Some more tape, and we were there!
I'm not sure how long it will last or what speeds it will endure but it's something I wanted to try!
In hindsight I would've put the end magnets closer to the end of the plate to curve it round the grill a bit more.
Here's the link to Mark's thread:
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,24323.15.htmlYou may have also noticed I wrapped the front badge (badly).. Let's just say it looks good from a distance!
Cheers!
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