Front grille coming apart.

[hikaru]

Add me to this list

I had Honda replace my emblem last week due to a crack from a rock chip, and noticed the gaps in my grill the next day. They tried to fix the gaps today but claimed they couldn't do anything.
I tried to demand that they were the cause of this, due to someone likely pulling on the emblem to remove it but they claim they used a heat gun and a small blade to remove it and did not "pull hard" on the grill. My word against there's I suppose.

I was relieved to see that its a large problem after finding this thread, but still sucks nonetheless.

Guess all 10th gens, regardless of year, will have this issue.

It's a bad design to begin with, so the 10th gen is cursed with this gap issues.

Had they make the bumper cover and the top piece of grill cover separately like Mazda, it won't have so much pressures and tension between the grill and bumper cover.

They learnt the mistake and made the 11th Gen with the top grill cover separately.

 

[LuDawg94]

Ok coming across this thread helps me keep my sanity. I started noticing the issue about 2-4 months. Wasn’t sure if it’s meant to be that way or maybe with the mods wasn’t placed back on correctly but now it’s all answered. I got my 2020 EX-T sedan in Jan of 2021. Just not liking the fact that it’s something that’s not covered under warranty although it feels like it should be. And if the dealers have seen this issue come up often have there not been enough complaints for Honda to acknowledge the issue with an official repair?

 

[hikaru]

Ok coming across this thread helps me keep my sanity. I started noticing the issue about 2-4 months. Wasn’t sure if it’s meant to be that way or maybe with the mods wasn’t placed back on correctly but now it’s all answered. I got my 2020 EX-T sedan in Jan of 2021. Just not liking the fact that it’s something that’s not covered under warranty although it feels like it should be. And if the dealers have seen this issue come up often have there not been enough complaints for Honda to acknowledge the issue with an official repair?

Just take the bumper cover off to reinforce the vertical beam if you are handy enough.

 

[Eore227]

Mine is doing the same thing 21 hatchback ex, started around 5k or maybe even earlier

 

[LuDawg94]

Just take the bumper cover off to reinforce the vertical beam if you are handy enough.

Unfortunately I’m not going to have to see how it goes or when I can go to a shop, see if it’s something that could be done.

 

[aznguy1992]

While you are doing so, please make sure that you reinforce the vertical center beam by placing metal bracket to correct its angle so that upper piece of the bumper cover is raised up again in the correct position.

The only reasons that these little tabs in the grill are giving up is the entire upper bumper cover is collapsing over time when the vertical center beam gives up.

You will see the upper bumper cover gets curled up like many have said because the permanent bond that you made there is pulling the upper bumper cover down.

Where did you get this bracket?

 

[hikaru]

Where did you get this bracket?

You can any brackets from home depot as long as you can bend them to make the angle that you wanted to stiff it up to the right position. I just happen to have this bracket in my toolbox and it works.

 

[aznguy1992]

You can any brackets from home depot as long as you can bend them to make the angle that you wanted to stiff it up to the right position. I just happen to have this bracket in my toolbox and it works.

Well wish that was more specific like a link to the bracket. Home depot has a ton of brackets. How do we know which one would be bendable like that?

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