They look great except for the amazingly ghetto looking screws that they're mounted with. Surely you could have come up with a better looking solution than that to make them look nicer?

 

Yep.. anything magnified 100 times looks terrible...but you won't see them when standing 3 feet away..
any suggestions..

 

Just off the top of my head, a long narrow staple would be far less conspicuous than Philips screw heads.

 

good idea but staples corrode and get rusty after a while, the screws I used are matching color, flush head & material for faux vents.

 

There are stainless steel staples just like the screws you used that don't rust. It's just my opinion, but the screw heads are a lot more noticeable to me than you seem to think they are. There's probably other options out there that are even better but more involved. Like maybe having the mesh bend around inside the edges of the lip of the faux vents and attached by countersunk screws from the outer edge. I have upper and lower aftermarket grilles on my Maxima and they are mounted with cable ties. I was really disappointed in the product. They're not as obvious as your screws, but no matter how you spin it, that's still ghetto.

 

You are tuff critic man...
New svres and don't ask how I did it:>!

 

Much better. Glue?

 

nope, actually the screws were temporary till 3M double sided tape cured-

 

So...how do you remove those vents again!? And can you move the center vent on the sport models?

 

Good job! Hadn't thought of that option yet. Kudos.

They're held in place from the back by a few clips with screws. They're not hard to remove at all. Center comes out easily too.

 

I think stock painted silver or gunmetal grilles would look awesome... like this:



IMHO, that spaghetti strainer looking mesh looks like crap.

 

pics of the whole front of the car not zoomed in?

 

CRAP means Creative Replacement Add-on Parts
Any one can paint an existing part...
right???
and you can take CRAP off and you are back to OEM configuration.

 

Has anyone running the Injen CAI removed these vents completely for increased airflow to the filters? I think the filters sit right behind these faux vents no? This would actually make these "holes" in our fascia functional! Im curious how bumper looks with the vents removed completely though

 

^^It might help, but with the risk of getting soaked when running over puddles of water or under heavy rain. So i don't know if its worth doing it..