....Yep, that's unfortunately a familiar story - I'm a member of that forum across your side of the pond too. But it's not all bad.
A Warm Welcome.
Any close-up pics of your drilled foglight panels? I thought of doing the same once upon a time but didn't think I could do it well enough.
It is true that it's not all bad and yes I have close ups of the drilled fog grills;
I've been told quite often to remove more, leaving only the honeycomb. But I'm not going to do more than I have...AND
what I did was cut out a template that fit inside the honeycomb from a piece of cereal box cardboard. I put a small hole in the center of the template,
and marked each spot to drill using the tip of a nail. A scribe or something else sharply pointed would work. Then I drilled them with
a wood bore bit like this;
http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/m/mg_jhPDk9kPZPJZlAPylvdQ/140.jpgI rested the fog grill on end of a wooden post for backing to stabilize the bitas it went through. Drilling from the outside to the inside and I took my time.