Has anyone any experience fitting a Magic Black Grill surround? Can get from local dealer, seemingly it's easiest to break the chrome one out and replace with new black one. Is it literally a case of just breaking it out as opposed to bumper removal or is there anything I should look out for?

 

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I had chrome on my Octavia grille, used some gentle leverage and snapped it out in multiple pieces, seems to be the way a lot of people do it. It can be done with bumper removal, but that is a lot more work!

 

See here for another post on the topic: 

 

Yes start at the top with bonnet open you can get the first clips with a screwdriver from the top then just slide screwdriver along rest of surround and break it off steadily ,then clean out muck underneath and pop new one on ,its a ten minute job at most but well worth it .

12 hours ago, J_D said:

I had chrome on my Octavia grille, used some gentle leverage and snapped it out in multiple pieces, seems to be the way a lot of people do it. It can be done with bumper removal, but that is a lot more work!

 

See here for another post on the topic: 

 

 

Thanks for the link appreciate it 

9 hours ago, Mickvrs220 said:

Yes start at the top with bonnet open you can get the first clips with a screwdriver from the top then just slide screwdriver along rest of surround and break it off steadily ,then clean out muck underneath and pop new one on ,its a ten minute job at most but well worth it .

 

Looks handy enough. Should have it done in the next couple days. One thing I wish mine had was the black pack. As far as I know on a Hatch it's just grill surrounds and mirror caps?