$72 pro grille

Looks great!!

 

Thanks Tim!

 

I ordered mine from madhornets.com as recommended a few pages back. Shipping was quick and quality seems good. The letters weren't stick on, but a couple of the screws the letter assembly came with weren't working properly so I had to use some longer ones. The original grill also had a lot of screws to remove, but the new grill didn't have any place for them. Has anyone else experienced that? All in all, not bad for $99.

 

Yea I found out my screws weren't big enough also. Cheap fix tho. None of the Pro grilles OEM or faux have screws for some reason. All clips but somehow it holds!

 

Thanks! I stared at the thing for a good 5 minutes wondering about it. I figured it was because it was a knockoff. Glad to hear they're all held in without the screws.

 

Total was $64.85
Knew they would be stick on letters, going to glue them on so I wasn’t worried about having screws. And I have a 2016 so I didn’t need to worry about the garnish. Paint and everything looks great. Ordered it Monday and got it today, Thursday.

My main concern is I don’t want the letters to be gray... has anyone painted or plastidipped the letters black? Want to paint them before they’re on the grille

Hoping this mod adds about 50 horsepower

 

Received my grille on monday from the link above. here's a small review of it.

Grille quality and condition were great! this one came with a sensor garnish, so this is a good combo for us TSS guys. installation of the grille was a breeze, but the garnish would not want to go into its slot. i tried trimming down the little lips for both clips, still didn't go in. i shaved down the sides a bit of the center clip, still no go. shaved down the two pegs a bit, still wouldn't budge. with it being night time and having little daylight left, i tried forcing it in a bit, and it ended up cracking the front lens. driving around for 5 days, i would still get the light on my dash stating that "PCS OFF". it wouldn't go away, so i figured the smallish 1/2 inch crack was the culprit. i ordered an OEM garnish off of ebay and just tried to install it again. still, it would not budge, so i've come to the conclusion that the garnish slot has some areas along the side where it was not formed neatly, causing the garnish to not be able to slide into place.

i shaved down parts of the garnish AND the grille to hopefully alleviate the rubbing. it was able to go in, but still, very difficult to push into place. the clips were able to engage onto the grille, and the pegs are being held in with the star washers? i'm hoping it's in enough that there isn't space between the back of the garnish and the TSS to cause permanent error codes. i'll take a picture of the front tomorrow when i have more light, and i'm hoping you guys can give me your opinion if it's good enough or not. ive seen photos of others where the garnish sits flush inside of the slot. mine bulges out roughly.....2mm all around.

 

I just purchased and installed my grille from madhornets today as well. I experienced the same problem with the screws. The holes in the grille were too large for the screws that came with it. I had to go buy the next size up screws for it to work.

I purchased the garnish from them also. Its a oem toyota part. Little problem was the garnish had a slight curve to it looking at it from the side but the grille is perfectly flat. After fighting with it for a while and not being able to get it to go in far enough to lock the 2 clips in place, I decided to take a chance and use 2 small C-clamps and a block of wood to get it fully seated. Lo and behold it worked.

 

So the one I got seems to be a lil on the small side. Could be it came out of the mold a lil too hot & had time to shrink too much. I used to mold plastics years ago.

Does anyone else notice theirs has these gaps on the sides that allow the clip holes to be visable?

 

I think thats normal. I noticed that on a picture a a trd pro with the oem grille.

 

Where did you get that one from for 65 bucks? I actually wouldn't mind the letters being grey

 

Ok I would hope an OEM Pro one would be much better better fit than this. It's not real noticable but I may spray some matte black plastidip behind there

 

The seller removed the listing and now does not have one for sale. Like others have said I think they remove them periodically to stop from getting too much attention from toyota....

Plastidipped the letters and glued them on with PVC glue. The color match from palstidip and the grille are as close as I could want. Very happy with the fit and the quality. For $65 my wallet is happy too

 

Looks good. Can you PM the seller so I can hit them up because I'd actually like to have the letters come grey; thanks

 

The letters are already grey on both OEM & the faux Pro grilles. A couple shades darker than silver sky I think. Pretty close to cement color

 

Sorry man like I said the seller removed the product and doesn’t have any pro gripes listed currently. They should all come silverish gray like the person above said. If you don’t care about the screw on or stick/glue on then just find the cheapest one you can. I’m pretty sure these are all coming out of the same Chinese factory.

 

Mine was delivered today. Got the screw on center logo style for $70. Three out of four screws went in fine, the fourth screw wasn’t machined at all.

Besides that and a bit of excess plastic to trim on the seams it looks good. I haven’t installed it yet so I can’t comment on fit.

 

i can't get my sensor to recalibrate. i've been driving with it for roughly a month, with the PCS error coding popping up everytime around the 4-5 mile mark. i've tried unplugging the sensor and i've even unplugged the battery. after doing so, i tried using the adaptive cruise control and it worked fine. after a few days, the error code popped back up. anyone have any idea how i can remedy this?

 

I put a washer in between the sensor and the grille on the top bolt like others on here have done. It tilts the sensor back to stock position. Also clean the lens on the garnish. Get any fingerprints and smudges. Mine stopped turning off shortly after doing this.