My wife's 82 Trans Am has the louvered grills in the front bumper. Some of the mounting holes have pulled through, and I need some ideas on how to fix it. I figure epoxy is going to be in the equation somewhere, but would like to see what others have done.
Before you say "buy new ones" the car is painted a custom candy color, that painters are afraid to try and match.

thanks

 

can you post pics of the damage if its not to bad just use washers. if its realy bad then epoxy.

 

I'll get some pics up this weekend.

 

Try JB weld, I find it easier to sand down and get smooth if needed.

 

Finally got some pics. The holes have pulled through. I thought about using a sleeve of plastic epoxied in for the crews to go through.

 

Ok, for future reference here's what I did, and it worked pretty good.

I bought some nylon spacers from lowes, and ground them down on a grinder untill the fit the rough shape of the blown out hole, and was flush with the existing mounting surface.
I then used 15min setting epoxy to glue the inserts into the blown out holes.
After thet set, I used a different, more flexible epoxy to fill up all the cavitys in the grills.

This has produced a pretty solid set of grills.