justyfid

So after a trip to home depot, I noticed the little black plastic grill was gone. My first instinct was thinking that it was stolen. It's not screwed in so it is possible that it came off, but I did not hit anything at all. I checked the driver's side grill and seems to be held pretty strongly on there.

Audi says the part is $59, and I dont want to replace it and have the same thing happen again.
Has anyone had this happen to your A4?

Pelican Pete

Except in my case it was an aftermarket lower grille insert for my B5, surrounding my aftermarket foglights.

It was 100% my fault -- I was loading some materials onto my roof rack, and I tied them to the tow hook. On the B5 the tow hook was accessed by removing the right side lower grille. And I forgot it in the Home Depot parking lot. :-(

You think it's bad getting an OEM replacement? Try finding a replacement for aftermarket parts which came part of a kit. I could not find any vendor to sell me one grille.
Eventually I ended up buying the AndySprague RS4 grilles.

-- Peter

quattrothatcould

I just rolled around with nothing there for a while. The FMIC pipes got more unrestricted air flow (not like it matters), weight savings (lol), and it looked badass. So it wasn't all that bad