My car came with the honeycomb grill fitted by the previous owner, which I quite like. It doesn’t however have a VRS badge anymore and I’d like to put one back on.

 

All the ones I can see online come with nuts and bolts. Is there a way to fit these without taking the bumper off? I can’t see how I could get behind to fit the nuts, or am I being daft?

The stock one is plasti-welded to the OEM grill, so I believe the typical practice for fitting the aftermarket nut + bolt ones is to open the bonnet and try to attach it using both hands in and outside of the engine bay.

 

Might be tricky if you've got bigger hands, but could always try using a magnetic screwdriver or pick-up tool to marry up the bolt to the badge...?

 

Otherwise, taking the bumper off would be a pretty disproportionate task in terms of the effort required compared to fitting the badge - as I'm sure you've worked out already 😉

I just can’t see how to get behind the the grill with the bonnet open. There’s a piece of plastic above the grill which appears to be attached.

 

I’ll have another look tomorrow, cheers!

Yeah - I actually went outside to check fluids yesterday and had a look myself, and realised it would be a tough job to do through the engine bay. My memory was playing tricks re: doing it with my old Mk6 Fiesta ZS, apologies - forgot how 'full' the Octavia's is.

 

It may well be a 'specialist tool' job, using tweezers or something to put the bolt behind your honeycomb grill, then affixing carefully with thin spanners / similar. Presumably, you're looking at ones like this? 

Yes that’s the type I was looking at. I’ve actually ordered one off eBay, so I’ll report back.

What about push nuts. No need to be twizzling some nuts in tight space. Might still be a challenge but not as difficult.

Thanks for the suggestions. One from eBay arrived today.

 

Similar to the Kopacek, the plates are actually nice and small. Its not to bad to fiddle with and you can do it just by "twizzling the nuts"