The grille on my Challenger was stained by a very large bee and I can't get the stain out. Any ideas on how to clean it up? I tried simple green to no avail.

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If simple green wont take it off, i would degrease it and respray with color.

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what color was the egg crate originally? also, on ours, the very front edge of the grille is natural alluminum and not painted.

The egg crate is not painted, it is the natural metal color.

someone had posted that if you fog it with a stainless steel finish paint, it is a very close match to the original finish.

I like that idea, what brand is preferred?

Remove the honeycomb section media blast it and re-anodize it. We've restored over 200 1970 Challenger grills. www.tuffwheelrestoration.com Totally Auto grill silver is okay for a driver quality also, Krylon metallics would work also, without media blasting you won't get good adhesion though.

Those damn "Superbees"

-dan

Those damn "Superbees"


Yea, I guess he wanted to be part of the Scat Pack.

Personally I have a 12ga shotgun bore brush that I took to a belt sander & made it a squared hole cleaning brush.... It screws to the "T" handle & does a pretty good job, takes a while but does a great job..

Did the same thing but put it in a drill and hand cleaner every hole.....took a whole week, but it worked and the fogged on paint has been sticking ever since.

Brian

My mom spilled hot chocolate on her carpet and was worried that she wouldn't be able to get it all out. I told her that she could always spill more hot chocolate over the entire living room floor so everything would match.

Just smash more bee's into the grill.

I've had bugs gutts eat into my clearcoat on the front of the hood. Nothing would get off the stains.