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I plan on doing this as soon as I get mine. A trip to Home Depot and 1-2 hours should suffice! Any tips on cutting out that portion?
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I didn't have much of a choice I stopped by the local Ace hardware, they didn't even stock any type of aluminum expanded metal. Anyway the space is so small that even this lower quality stuff came out great!
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So you got the mesh from HomeDepot? What type of glue did you use?
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I actually bought the gutter mesh at ACE Hardware, If you do go to Home Depot you might actualy find some aluminum mesh that most everybody else is using for this mod. I think the plastic gutter mesh that I used looks fine though, It's up to you what to use. Because the mesh I used was made of plastic I used some 3M double sided foam tape and placed it about every four or so inches around the entire outside portion of the insert then folded the excess over the tape and secured it that way I then used some epoxy (Goop for automobile applications) that I had lying around to further secure the portions in between the tape. Good luck!
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I just want to get the price and shipping from Dan@United BMW. I would like to get a professionaly painted gloss black diffuser, but there isn't a big rush for it now, I am very pleased with how mine turned out.
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01-18-2012, 03:38 PM | #54 |
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I am waiting on my diffuser from Dan. The price was $73.86 shipped. I ordered mine without the insert since I'm going to trim mine and install mesh. I also picked up some black plastic gutter mesh from Lowes at lunch today. I'm going to use it to cover the back of the cut out.
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Papethova..can you post some pictures of how you attached the mesh to the diffuser?..or anyone else who has done it..
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I received my diffuser from Dan on Friday and cut out the center section. Man that was a pain. Finally had a chance last night to finish sanding and cut the mesh and test fit it. I'm going try to get it painted tonight or tomorrow. Waiting for it to warm up a little.
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removing the diffuser link brings me to some anti-theft thread
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You can use any type of adhesive really. Liquid nails works great. Here is a pic but this was not one with liquid nails. |
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I have an extra diffuser cut out with the mesh installed for sale if anyone is interested.
I am going to post it in the for sale section. http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showt...1#post11236451 Last edited by Papethova; 01-28-2012 at 01:16 PM.. |
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Kudos to the OP! This was a great mod and the results speak for themselves!
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great idea, thanks
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I installed my new diffuser on Friday and finally got around to taking some pictures today. It turned out pretty good. I used gloss black plastic paint from a rattle can and black plastic gutter mesh to cover the opening.
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