{"id":585,"date":"2009-04-02T19:51:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2009-04-14T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T00:27:22","slug":"no-more-grills-broken-by-hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/no-more-grills-broken-by-hail\/","title":{"rendered":"No more grills broken by hail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned before, I&#8217;ve had issues with hail breaking my plastic front grills.\u00a0 After this last storm, which smashed them up pretty good, I decided to take my first steps toward some hail guards.\u00a0 Who knows, I might do something like this over all the vulnerable parts of the vehicle.\u00a0 Sounds like a fall\/winter project.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what it looked like before, after the storm. Sorry it&#8217;s so dirty, with all of the sandstorms lately I haven&#8217;t really had a decent day to wash it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-586\" title=\"grill1\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill1.jpg\" alt=\"grill1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here was the test fit of the new one before painting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" title=\"grill2\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill2.jpg\" alt=\"grill2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is the final product after painting and installing them:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-588\" title=\"grill3\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill3.jpg\" alt=\"grill3\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill3.jpg 600w, http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/grill3-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably biased, but I think they actually look better than the factory ones.\u00a0 One thing is for sure, I won&#8217;t have any hail penetrating those.\u00a0 They are made from stretched steel!\u00a0 Thus my underlying expensive a\/c condensor will be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned before, I&#8217;ve had issues with hail breaking my plastic front grills.\u00a0 After this last storm, which smashed them up pretty good, I decided to take my first steps toward some hail guards.\u00a0 Who knows, I might do something like this over all the vulnerable parts of the vehicle.\u00a0 Sounds like a fall\/winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-storm-chasing","tag-hail-guards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}