How many people on here are interested in custom grille's ??

Hello

My name is Chris Driver with www.grille-tech.com I just want to know how many of you would consider a custom grille for your Acura or Honda? We have started a website and offer many types of grille's for Honda and one for Acura Integra 92-93. Basically I want some feedback from you on what type of grille you want us to make !! And maybe some feedback on how we can make our site better. Please respond and please if you have a car and you can't find a grille for it or you just don't like what other companies have to offer, please let us know!!

Thank You
Chris Driver
www.grille-tech.com

I'm interested in a mesh grill, but you don't have them for CRX's.

What year CRX do you have because we will look into making a grille for that model?

Dude, people can make these grilles themselves for waaaaaay less money then you are trying to charge. Guess how much I made mine for? $18, and thats only because I had to buy tin-snips! Your prices are way high!

1st off is your grille powder coated?? 2nd we aren't selling chicken wire!! 3rd not everyone wants or knows how to make thier own grille's 4th go to some of our compeditors website's and compare pices!

OK, my grill isn't made of chicken mesh either. It's made of diamond cut sheet metal or whatever, the stuff anyone can get at Home Depot. Powder coated? No. Painted, yes! And , indeed, it does stand up to the elements and rocks and such. Why would I compare prices? I know they are all charging way too much. I bet you make a 90% profit on those. Good for you. Bad for the suckers who buy into it. For those who aren't interested in making their own, then they deserve to pay rediculous prices, cause the grilles are rediculously easy to make. Thats just my opinion though. Good luck in your business venture.

i would have to agree, making these grilles is easy, a retarted monkey can do it.

you don't have a 94/5 Accord grille....BAAAAAD move

.... d.i.y. grill is the way to go,you could prolly make one with three fingers its so damng easy:toothless

Originally posted by grille-tech
1st off is your grille powder coated?? 2nd we aren't selling chicken wire!! 3rd not everyone wants or knows how to make thier own grille's 4th go to some of our compeditors website's and compare pices!

I'm sorry to say, but like the guys above said, you'd have to be a fool to pay $90 for a stupid piece of metal grill. I mean maybe if it was $40 or even $50, you might have a deal, but selling your's $10-$20 cheaper than the competitor isn't much of a bargin on an already overpriced product to begin with. Just my $0.02. Don't get me wrong, your grills look very nice, and appear from the pics to be excellent quality, but the fact of the matter, is, when you can make your own like I did for UNDER $5.00 a $90 grill is gonna seem like the stupidest choice one could make, sure not everyone can fabricate their own grill like I did, but ripping them off (and that's what I see a $90+ grill as) because of their lack of how to make one, isn't justified either.

And for the record, my grill is NOT POS chicken wire (that was a kind of ignorant statement for you to make, considering MUCH of the mesh grills out there are NOT chicken wire to begin with), it's construction grade galvinized steel drywall insert lathe mesh. It's WAY more sturdy than aluminum chicken wire, is very inexpensive too, by (UNDER $3 for a 3x8 foot "sheet" of it). Plus you can coat it, and even if you just cut it, put it on, and DON'T coat/paint it, it's still weather resistent, I've had mine on for almost a year now, and even being steel, it has NOT rusted one milimeter yet. Not to mention with the size of the sheet it came off of, I can fabricate at least a half dozen more of them, and sell them to friends at a VERY reasonable $25-$30 if I wanted to. ;) VERY reasonsable I must again emphisize.

If you want to sell/advertise these, please make a post of your product in the "classifieds" forum, thanks. :)

u really must think people are complete morons to charge them $90 for grilles...thats insane. Thats the dummest thing ive ever seen.


For anyone thinking of buying from this guy DOnt Make your own, choose the type of grille you want and paint it the way you want. And youll save yourself a load of money plus youll have the satisfaction of making it on your own.

awww...i think you guys scared grille-tech away....hehe

Originally posted by soul180
awww...i think you guys scared grille-tech away....hehe

Not at all, he's more than welcome to the forums here. :)

I just want to hear a quality argument why anyone should charge $90+ for a grill, let along the almost $200 that Grill-Craft charges for their grills. I'll give Grill-Tech that his grills are a quality honeycomb holed look grill that is different from the usual diamond hole ones we all put on, but that still shouldn't make the price high, and I know fabbing the grills isn't that expensive. So in a sense I'm just challenging Grill-Tech to explain why his grills or any grills sold out there are so dang expensive. I'm not out to flame or anything, I just wanna know why out of my own curiosity. :)

No, THIS is a nice Grill!!!

http://www.profirebbq.com/images/portable_pf40rs.gif

:flipa: :finger: :flipa: :finger:
By the way, I'm hungry now. :D

Originally posted by Xplocivic
No, THIS is a nice Grill!!!

http://www.profirebbq.com/images/portable_pf40rs.gif

:flipa: :finger: :flipa: :finger:
By the way, I'm hungry now. :D

LOL. way to change the mood of the topic there! :)

Originally posted by Xplocivic
No, THIS is a nice Grill!!!
Gas grills suck... :finger:

I agree, thats way too much for those. I also dont like the rounded shape of the holes. I prefer the diamond shaped ones. I dont have a pic damnit, but I think you know what I'm talking about.

Look, everyone has the right to give their opinion. All I can tell you guy's is, if you want to make your own grille's from steel drywall insert lathe mesh, by all means do so, but slamming our product isn't fair. We feel our product is as good as any on the market today and we have the best price out there. Please, post some pics (close up's) of your home made grille's so we can all see how nice they are. Also it takes a lot more than you would think to run a business in this day and age.

Originally posted by grille-tech
We feel our product is as good as any on the market today and we have the best price out there.

Let's see, for my 92 civic: $79 for the center insert, $49 for the sides. Plus shipping that's almost $140! You can get a grill craft grill for less than that! As if they weren't bending us over enough....

First, thank you for supporting AF with your advertising.


Now, my custom made grille is probably not as nice as the ones you offer. It may not be powdercoated or sport fancy design, but I like it. It also didn't cost me.....um.....you don't even have one for my car...well lets just say $100. I can replace mine more than 110 times for your price. And plus I have the satisfaction of making it myself.



Good luck with your business :)

GRILL CRAFT - 1992-1995 CIVIC 2DR GRILLE COMPLETE KIT 3PC HON SubTotal : $178.95
Shipping : $9.95
Total : $188.90

GRILLE-TECH - 1992-1995 civic 2dr grille complete set 3PC
SubTotal :$128.00
Shipping: $6.95
Total : 134.95

Sorry, Grille-Tech IS Lower priced. Check and see for yourself. :)

"I can replace mine more than 110 times for your price"

Boy an $0.80 grille must look real good!!!

Hey maybe you could make an intake from some paper towel tubes and tin foil, I bet you could make it for under $0.25!!

Some people like to have top quality products to trick out their rides and obviously some don't.

Originally posted by GrilleGroupBuys
GRILL CRAFT - 1992-1995 CIVIC 2DR GRILLE COMPLETE KIT 3PC HON SubTotal : $178.95
Shipping : $9.95
Total : $188.90

GRILLE-TECH - 1992-1995 civic 2dr grille complete set 3PC
SubTotal :$128.00
Shipping: $6.95
Total : 134.95

Sorry, Grille-Tech IS Lower priced. Check and see for yourself. :)

Nice try, but if you're paying $178.95 for grill craft, you're an idiot. Look here for $129.95

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/streetbeatcustoms/92honcivspor.html

Nice prices on that site. I'll have to get some stuff for my car from them. LOL !! Hey go buy some grillcraft grille's then and plan on spending the day installing them plus drilling and cutting your front bumper.

Originally posted by grille-tech
Nice prices on that site. I'll have to get some stuff for my car from them. LOL !! Hey go buy some grillcraft grille's then and plan on spending the day installing them plus drilling and cutting your front bumper.

Or I could buy neither and put my money to better use!! Yay!! :rolleyes:

Arguing and being smart with your customers or in front of them is no way to do business. Didn't you take any classes?? :confused:

You're right, the customer is always right!! But you're not a customer:D

And I'm never gonna be with that attitude. :finger4:

You figure, who's gonna do business with someone who's playing games with people online like you are?

I'm not really handy with those whole grill things, and I didn't want to make up so I bought one (company known as eurogrills) bought a 2 piece for a 95 Accord and 4 pieces for a 99 civic). You know how much I paid for both shipped? $30! I mean yes I could have made a product similiar at home, but it wasn't that bad of a price. i think is email addy is like [email protected] someone wants it..e-mail i'll try findin' it.. [email protected] <-that's my e-mail

Originally posted by grille-tech
"I can replace mine more than 110 times for your price"

Boy an $0.80 grille must look real good!!!

Hey maybe you could make an intake from some paper towel tubes and tin foil, I bet you could make it for under $0.25!!

Some people like to have top quality products to trick out their rides and obviously some don't.

For the record, insulting potential customers is a real pisspoor way to conduct a business. Plain and simple, you just won't get any. My custom made grill using expanded metal is by far strnger at least than aluminum which I assume your grill is made out of. If you treat the steel right, and powdercoat it yourself, you'll still have a much cheaper cost grill than the one's you are trying to sell, and of the same if not better quality. And YES, an $.80 grill looks just as good as the ones you sell, I know it because I've compared. ;) I think I'll save my $100 for something that will actually benifite my car. ;)

And just so you know, insulting customers won't be tolerated on here, I have no beef with you selling your products on here (it's better suited for the "Classifieds" forum though) but if you insult another customer, you maybe asked to not post advertisements on AF in the future, and possibly to leave AF altogether. Thank you. :)

And you went off on all of us for "slamming" your products :rolleyes:

I was even thinking about recommending you to one of my relatives who has a new truck. Not anymore. Insulting people is not cool. Even if I don't buy one, I might tell a few people.

Also it takes a lot more than you would think to run a business in this day and age.

<sarcastic>Yeah that whole being nice deal is sooooo hard. <sarcastic>

Ok, I was trying to avoid this thread for as long as possible... but I simply can not anymore.

Grille-Tech: You are correct, "Also it takes a lot more than you would think to run a business in this day and age." - as a fellow business owner I know that it takes money to make money and theres more to it then opening up an online store and you make millions... There has to be some advertising involved, so now -- why would you goto a forum where people openly talk about an "easy" mod, and expect to get the best results, if any results from it? Example...

Its like me coming in here, and telling you all that I sell plastic COLORED vents for your cars... you pop the old ones out and pop these ones in -- but oh yeah, they cost $50-$70 per car depending on your car. Now please ask yourself, why would someone do this? Again, I am not trying to "flame" you but it just doesnt seem like a correct way to advertise.

To SilverY2k: 90% profit? Hehehe ever taken a math class? If a product costs $10 to make, and someone sells it for $70 -- that is a 600% markup -- not your 90% as you said. That would be something like the $70 grill costing $38.50 -- which if thats the case, Grille-Tech really needs to better spec out their ordering contracts cause thats crappy.

Remember, no one is here to bash your company -- but not many people would find your form of advertising very effective. I for one, can think of a million better ways to spend my advertising dollars to make every $1 count -- how long have you guys been in business? What business experience do you have?

Hello,
I am Ben, an owner of Grille-Tech. I am disappointed in the way that my company has handled itself on this forum and I want to apologize. I understand each and every viewpoint on this Thread and I will try to address your concerns. As for the cost of the grille: Each and every grille is precision Laser Cut out of a solid sheet of perforated Steel. It is then Deburred, Chemically treated, and powder coated. The grille is then inspected for any flaws and then sent to the shipping department where the trim is put on, it is cleaned again and packaged for shipping. The machine the grilles are cut on cost over 1 million dollars by itself, therefore the operation of such machinery is not cheap. There are many unseen costs as well such as the engineering involved in making a template for a vehicle, CAD Programming Costs and So On. As for your home made grilles, Yes they are nice, but they involve a bit of time, ingenuity and some mechanical skills which not all people have. This is why we offer a precut product that requires only a few minutes of work to install. Our goal is to make YOU happy, which has not been done thus far. If you do not like our product, Please let me know How I can change it to make it better. All serious suggestions will be looked at and taken into consideration.
I hope I have eased some of the tension and again I apologize for unprofessional way we have handled ourselves.
Ben
www.grille-tech.com

Hey SilverY2KCivic: What kind of materials did you use when you made your grilles? Can u give me some pointers on making one for my Accord? I want my car to have a fresh look but I definately don't wanna spend 100's of bucks. If anyone else has suggestions, please post. I've done other mods on my own but never a grille!

:bloated:

Originally posted by grille-tech
Hey maybe you could make an intake from some paper towel tubes and tin foil, I bet you could make it for under $0.25!!

Some people like to have top quality products to trick out their rides and obviously some don't. I made my own cold air intake and my car runs 11s, anything else?

can i make a main grille for a 2001 maxima that can go over the stock grille?

you need to make grille's for the 94 on integras

one part of me says leave the old threads alone!

another part of me says thanks for bringing this thread up again so i can remember to find how to make my own grill....

Originally posted by whiteracer
one part of me says leave the old threads alone!

another part of me says thanks for bringing this thread up again so i can remember to find how to make my own grill....

Home made myself. Amazing what a $3 investment and a little bit of time and patience can get you... ;)

taken in front of the Rose Bowl huh?
Anyways, we're you talking about the lower or upper grill. The lower one looks nice. Are the lights behind the mesh? As for the blue "h" in front, how'd you go about doing that? I originally had a red emblem with the two prongs that would normally go in the trunk, but after rubbing it on the pavement for awhile i flatten the back and stuck it in the front where the stock silver one was. It looked nice until my accident. How'd you attach your grill to your bumper?

The REosebowl was all I had while my other spot wasn't accessable for about 6 months, damn fires! Grrr.

Anyways, the one I'm talking about is my LOWER grill, that's the one I custome made my own mesh insert for. All I did was cut out the stock black plastic grille crossmember pieces, and then made a templete outline of the shape of the opening for referance sake. I attached that to a piece of the '4x'8 foot sheet of galvanized concrete lathe I bought at Home Depot for like $2 and some change. Cut out around the templete staying about an inch off the templete cutout so I could trim down from there. Checked everything over once cut, then attached it using thin wire to tie the insert to the bumper (can't even tell how it's attached since I paid great attention to detail to hide it all) and made sure it was all straight. That's all there really is to it. Metal mesh grill insert for about $3 :cool: As for my fog lights, they sit BEHIND the grill. Actually they are attached to the cross member piece that is baically the bumper of the car.

The emblem didin't have any prongs to it, just a flat super sticky tape back to it. All I didi was remove my stock emblem, and stick the new one on. Simple as pie. $16.95 for the F&R set from www.procarparts.com ;) As for my upper grill, all I did was take off my bumper and took off the silver body colored ring piece around the actual black plastic cross member piece, and then sprayed it with some silver paint, same stuff I used for my interior and side skirts. I need to touch it up though since the parts I sprayed that lay under the hood are all chipping off from heat under there. But you can't see or notice it unless my hood is up. I like having the grill body color painted rather than having the Si style grill, it's different and unique and looks wise, it fits the car very well that way.

here's my diy grill, cost me 6 dollars for gutter guard

while i admit that looks nice, leave the old threads alone!