There are a few people out there who supply stainless grills for the FTO. I bought mine from Type-F. It's not a quick and easy job to do, but the result is great.

You will need:
  • A rachet & 10mm socket
  • A foot long extension bar for the rachet and 12mm socket
  • A Philips screwdriver
  • A very thin flat bladed screwdriver
  • Another pair of hands

  • The very first thing to do is to see if you can undo the bolts that hold the bumper to the chassis. If you can't there's no point in doing any thing else. You should go away and buy a bigger tool! Get under the car on the drivers side with your head in line with the inner blubs of the head lights. Looking up you should be able to locate a bit of bodywork with 2 bolts in it. Give these a single turn. If the move, go and try the two on the passenger side. Once you are sure you can get all 4 off, remove them
    There are several screws to take out from under the car too. These are not all the same size, so it's worth getting a number of small tubs to place the groups of screws in. Also means you don't loose them! Most of them are the usual stupid plastic ones, so sometimes you will have to reach around and hold the back of it to stop it turning.
    There are 2 bolts and a screw in the wheel arch that must be removed. The screw is down the bottom, there is a bolt up near the top, and there is a bolt underneath the plastic inbetween the two, right where the bumper joins the wing.
    To get to the covered bolt you need to take these 2 fixings out from the back of the wheel arch. The top in is not a screw. You need to get your nails into the inner edge and pull the middle out. When that's out the rest of it will follow
    Now pull the plastic out of the edge of the bumper so you can see the bolt that holds the bumper to the wing. It helps a lot if you can get a friend to hold it back while you undo the bolt
    Now crawl back under the edge and disconnect the indicators and fog lights, if you have them. They are simple clips, but can be a bit stiff
    Once you've done that on both sides, remove the two bolts under the bonnet. Now the only thing holding the bumper in place is the metal bars that go into the chassis and two yellow plugs. These plugs are just by the outside edge of the headlights. There's no real way to do this but to grab hold of a solid part of the bumper and pull. Don't make sudden jerking pulls, and if possible, get someone else to do the other side at the same time
    Now you have your bumper off, take it somewhere soft and free of stones etc to lay it face down on. Right about now you will be thinking how dirty it is, but it's best to clean it after you've removed the old grill
    The main grill is quite simple, a number of screws and 4 nasty little clips. The way to get these off is to get your flat screwdriver and carefully prise up the inner bits, then you can slide them up. Take the old grill out, put the new one in, and replace all the screws. With those nasty clips you should hammer them flat before you put them back on
    If you have fog lights...lucky you. Skip this bit. The fog pods are a lot trickier, especially when you don't have enough mesh. I found the mesh provided (120mm sq) too wide and too short, but fear not, it can be done. Remove the four bolts that hold the old grill in place. Now the important thing is to get it flat across the pod, so undo the screw and place the mesh flat across the pod and so that the screw will hold it in place. squash the edges of the mesh to make it thinner and longer, and get the screw as far into the top corner as possible while still covering the pod
    Now bend the mesh up as the point right after the pod, we need to save as much mesh as possible. You may need to undo the screw so you can remove the mesh and bend it properly. Then bend it back over the bolt holes. Clamp it in place with the bolts and make any final bending adjustments
    The screw that we've used isn't very strong and is only going into fibreglass, so we did 2 things to help this. Some wood glue in the hole before you put the screw in will help a bit. It will provide a thread, and another bond between screw and fibreglass. But the real genius part was the cable tie poked through the grill and around the metal bracket. This will hold the grill to the bracket and help keep the screw in place
    When it comes to putting the bumper back on there are 3 points to watch on each side
    Line the metal bars up with the chassis and start to push it on. Watch the very outside of the bumper
    There's a piece that sticks up that you might not have noticed before, this needs to go under the wing so it can fit in it's hole. Be careful you don't scrape it down the edge of the wing. Ouch! And there's the yellow plugs
    Once you've got these three sorted it will already be pretty firmly fixed
    Now it's a case of reversing everything. Tighten the chassis bolts first. It might help to have someone push forward on the bumper when you're doing that. Then put all the screws and bolts back in their holes
    Don't forget to reconnect the indicators and fog lights, and test them. The indicators don't work until the engine is on
    Then you are done. What an improvement. Now go and buy a pair of tweasers to keep it clean