Foglight grills (chrome), How to maintain Options

[Pat Garvey]

For those of use who have the chromed foglight grills - interested in how you have/do maintain your through the years. My understanding is that the very early grills were chromed metal, but most are chromed plastic.

As you are aware, these guys just love to eat up anything on the roadway, especially bugs, at high rates of speed.

So, how have you kept yours pristine - or have you? What are your tips?

Beyond that, what about you guys who have the painyed grills - foglight or no? How do you keep them?

[Jasfsmith]

For those of use who have the chromed foglight grills - interested in how you have/do maintain your through the years. My understanding is that the very early grills were chromed metal, but most are chromed plastic.

As you are aware, these guys just love to eat up anything on the roadway, especially bugs, at high rates of speed.

So, how have you kept yours pristine - or have you? What are your tips?

Beyond that, what about you guys who have the painyed grills - foglight or no? How do you keep them?

I must be lucky. Other than nasty bugs and road grime, my 914-6 grills have held up over the years. For maintenance I take them off before the car goes into winter hibernation (four months of the year here), clean them along with the exterior body work, wax them with whatever flavor of the month wax I'm using, and put them back on. Only problem I have are the screws. Can't seem to keep them from tarnishing and windup replacing them every year. I suspect the original ones were chrome as well. but are long gone.

The 914-4 (without fog lamps) are painted to the body color. They don't fair too well. I've had to repaint them several times over the years. Usually when the base plastic starts showing though the paint chips.

Only time I saw a set of metal grills, they didn't appear to be chrome (even had the chance to try and "finger polish" a couple of the fins after remarking to the Owner how luck he was to have the metal grills). They appeared to be a satin finish much like anodized aluminum.