Damaged center grill

[Shake&Bake]

Unfortunately, I hit a rabbit and the center grill’s right side is bent. Fortunately it’s just the grill though, still drives straight and brakes are good. The grill is pushed back a few inches, im going to try to pull it back the best as I can to straighten it. The right side of the black part that holds the grill is on top of the metal clip that holds it. I tried to push it and put it behind the clip but there’s a wall that I’m hitting. Does anyone know the center grill piece? I want to see what I can do, but I do I want it to be fixed properly when I can afford it.

You can see on the side that the black part is on top of the metal clip that holds it, and the wall is preventing me to put it behind it like the rest.

 

[Six Speed Stephen]

Think it's this one. Your dealer can find out.

Product - Bell and Colvill

parts.bellandcolvill.co.uk

 

[Shake&Bake]

I don’t have a lift to raise the car, best I can do is to get two ramps to raise the front car up. Is there a way to remove the front bumper without removing the wheels? Where can I find the blueprint on how to remove it?

 

[Aero]

I don’t have a lift to raise the car, best I can do is to get two ramps to raise the front car up. Is there a way to remove the front bumper without removing the wheels? Where can I find the blueprint on how to remove it?

Can you remove the front underbelly pan and push it from the back in enough to get back into place? Hard to tell if its damaged too badly.
Time2Fly has a good info in front bumper removal and the pains involved and what was missing from the service manual. Pretty sure he had remove the front tires if you have to go that route.
Given the part cost and labor $ involved you might want get insurance involved if it makes $ sense.

 

[Shake&Bake]

Can you remove the front underbelly pan and push it in enough to get back into place? Hard to tell if its damaged too badly.
Time2Fly has a good info in front bumper removal and the pains involved and what was missing from the service manual. Pretty sure he had remove the front tires if you have to go that route.
Given the part cost and labor $ involved you might want get insurance involved if it makes $ sense.

That’s exactly what I’ll be doing first is removing the underbelly pan and try to push it. My biggest problem is I’m 18, I’m already paying 6k a year for insurance and I’m afraid it’ll increase if I involved them.

 

[Beachbum]

That’s exactly what I’ll be doing first is removing the underbelly pan and try to push it. My biggest problem is I’m 18, I’m already paying 6k a year for insurance and I’m afraid it’ll increase if I involved them.

18 and an Emira !!! Good for you young man, nicely done

 

[Shake&Bake]

18 and an Emira !!! Good for you young man, nicely done

Truly blessed with my Emira, 4,000 miles in just a few months, such an amazing daily car. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has kicked my behind this week

 

[Shake&Bake]

where are you located... suppose to get mine this week from Philly and the snow is coming down and no way driving it in snow or heavy brine on road... At 18 I was driving a 1956 396 4 speed Chevy Nomad I built...1969 yikes time flies

I’m in the sunshine state of Florida, around the Tampa/Sarasota region.

 

[Dino67]

You probably need to remove the front hood to get access to the clips that hold the front bumper. I have never worked on an Emira, but if it is similar to other cars, there are probably a bunch of clips that run along the edge of the bumper where it meets the hood, along the wheel well where the bumper attaches to the fender liners, and at the bottom where the bumper connects to the bottom tray. I am guessing there will be about a dozen or so clips and probably 2 or 4 screws/bolts.

If you do crawl underneath your Emira, make sure the rear wheels are chocked and you have a backup to support the car in case your ramps fail. I typically use my floor jack but it does not sound like you have one. If you have a spare wheel, you could slide that under the car.

 

[Six Speed Stephen]

Here's what I found for the removal process

 

[harleyujoe]

I hope you can get lower pan off and straighten grille up enough and not have to replace it..
....One thing you could try and make up a puller to help with straighten it .
Good Luck with Emira Grille

 

[gcmak]

If you're not taking off the bumper/grille, loop a few small zip ties around to use as pulls to straighten it out a bit.

 

[crestima]

If you're attempting to re-position the grille back into its place, w/o removing the front bumper, the use of zip ties to pull the grill outwards is a good suggestion by gcmak. Perhaps the fairly inexpensive tools pictured below and sold on Amazon could also help to reshape and pull it back in its frame, or as close as possible. I suspect however, that in order to bring it back to its OEM shape and fitting, its removal, reshaping and re-assembling may be the best alternative. I maybe wrong on this, but it may not be necessary to buy a new grille at all. Someone handy can mold that wire grille back to its original shape and the securing clips could very likely be re-usable. Good luck with restoring your Emira's grille. In the realm of misfortune, it would have
been a lot worse had the bumper or paint been damaged as well.

 

[nelly111s]

You never mentioned how the rabbit was? Ran off with a sore head, or was it cooked for dinner that night?

 

[Shake&Bake]

You never mentioned how the rabbit was? Ran off with a sore head, or was it cooked for dinner that night?

I was going 50 mph when it happened. I almost missed it but it did a u-turn at the last second(It was at night). God is taking care of the rabbit, if the first impact didn’t finish it, the two right tires definitely did

 

[crestima]

I was going 50 mph when it happened. I almost missed it but it did a u-turn at the last second(It was at night). God is taking care of the rabbit, if the first impact didn’t finish it, the two right tires definitely did

Had this occurred in France, someone would have had "Lapin L'Emira" for dinner.