Front Grille Wear, 2006 Ls 430

[Robert Young]

Has anyone found a nice aftermarket front grille? I'm looking for something very similar to OEM appearance, but hopefully in metal instaed of plastic. I'm not happy that the painted surfaces on most of the horizontal bars in the OEM grille have totally worn away, with only 30k miles on the car.

[1990LS400]

Over 40 aftermarket grill listings were displayed when I searched for "LS430 grill" on eBay.

IMO, a metal grill isn't a great idea since they show dents and don't "rebound" from impacts like plastic does. I speak from the experience of replacing the metal grill slats in my last Mercedes sedan (dented by road debris) but at least Mercedes made the metal parts replaceable so that replacing the entire grill wasn't necessary.

[pj8708]

Not only that, after having the pleasure of two front end involved collisons, the plastic grills were just riped off and a new fitted on. Much cheaper.

Paul

[Robert Young]

Thanks for the advise, I'll see if I can find an OEM and then maybe paint the slats on the original (the only parts that are bad) for a spare. I just hate it that my plastic GMC grill looks almost new with far more miles.