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Old 05-05-2002, 05:58 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Restoring your faded speaker grills

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What I used:


EDIT: The blue shirt I was wearing got kinda ruined, so wear something you don't care about. And wear gloves or your hands will be navy blue!

I went to Wal-Mart and bought Rit in Navy blue, found in the fabric care section. I bought one package.

1. Disconnect and remove your speaker grills.
To remove your speaker grills:
-From your trunk you can see how the grill/speaker combo is mounted.
-Use a 10mm socket to remove the nuts. There are 3 nuts for each speaker/grill
-Remove from them from the inside of the car/disconnect the harness
-Once out you can see 3 silver screws, these are what hold the speaker in.
-Remove the screws and the speaker and your left with the grilles.

2. I used a metal stainless pot that both of the grilles could fit into on top of each other. I filled 3/4's of it with water (so when you toss em' in ther it won't overflow).

3. My stove had settings like: warm-low-med-high
First I just warmed up the water on the medium setting, after it was pretty warm I brought it down to "warm" and then I poured the whole package of Rit in there and stirred.

(EDIT: I forgot to mention that my stove was electric)

4. After it was mixed I tossed one of the grills in facing upward and then the other facing downward. I stirred/ read po.com; stirred/read po.com, stirred/read po.com. After about twenty minutes they were the desired color and then I removed them and rinsed them in warm water and then in cold.

The mistake I made was I took them out early. When fabric is soaking wet it looks darker. In the After picture they look pretty dark but they are one shade lighter than I would like. So I recomend maybe about 25-30 mins.

So make sure you don't get rid of the water/rit mixture early. Leave it so if it didn't come out right you can dunk them again.
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Sounds like a great idea. I think if you put the intructions on how to remove the grills from the car you'd be faq'd.
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or just how to remove the front ones
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Sounds like a great idea. I think if you put the intructions on how to remove the grills from the car you'd be faq'd.

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You're the man! This will be my next project. Nice! I have always hated how lame they look from the sun burn.
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You're the man! This will be my next project. Nice! I have always hated how lame they look from the sun burn.
thanks... good luck
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bored alan since you can't drive it? Now maybe bren2k will stop whining about it.
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bored alan since you can't drive it? Now maybe bren2k will stop whining about it.
ya right now I'm polishing the shift lever. I also have a yard of vinyl
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I just dusted mine with a few light coats of black spray paint. . .looks fine.
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I just dusted mine with a few light coats of black spray paint. . .looks fine.
Hey... that would work also. I was afraid they wouldn't let me buy it
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i lost my speaker grills, do you guys know where i could buy em...
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i lost my speaker grills, do you guys know where i could buy em...
www.hondaautomotiveparts.com
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i checked there, coudnt find any
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Hey... that would work also. I was afraid they wouldn't let me buy it
Do you have a felony record for grafiti or something?
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Do you have a felony record for grafiti or something?
getting carded for buying spray paint is f'in embarassing

i bought a ton of chameleon to do my valve cover, about $20/bottle.. and the lady goes

lady: i need some ID to sell you this..
me: if I wanted to sniff it dont you think I'd buy the $2 kind instead of the $20 kind?
lady: Well, I dunno, maybe this types stronger cause of all the colors..
me: In the case I'll go eat some paintchips off my chameleon car, bye.
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i got carded buying glue for my model cars last night...
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i got carded buying glue for my model cars last night...
Whats the age limit? 16? 18?

P2W: did you add that H22 wiring thread to the FAQ section.
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Whats the age limit? 16? 18?

P2W: did you add that H22 wiring thread to the FAQ section.
its 18.. no i didnt. PM me the Link again and i will
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i got carded once for paint then the dumbass clerk thought i was 17 still, i had to explane to him numerical order and how my birthday was 2 months ago
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