KiltedCelt01
Senior Member
I’m looking for some opinions or feedback if anyone has purchased either of these aftermarket grilles via eBay. I’m eyeing up two right now that I really like. They’re OEM style aftermarket versions, nothing crazy. My truck is completely blacked out and I’m having a hard time deciding between these two.
I like the Rebel style grille, but, I don’t want a raptor look with the lights. Not knocking anyone who has it, everybody likes different stuff. The yellow lights would clash with my white DRL’s/marker lights and the version with white lights would be overkill in my opinion. I’m also not much of a light guy, don’t really want any extra lights anywhere. I’d like this style grille better if there was a gloss black version to match better with the PX8 paint on my truck, I’m not a real big fan of matte plastic on the front end. (I guess I could have it painted) None of the above makes me like the grille any less, though.
If I bought the Rebel style grille, I’d just black out the raptor style lights before the install to fill the holes and would paint the RAM badge black. I can’t find a version of the Rebel style grille in the aftermarket world that doesn’t have the lights but still has the OEM looking RAM badge. Kind of a weird combination issue if you ask me. I found out there’s a commonly sold version out there in ebay land with a “skinny M” which looks really weird and I wouldn’t have noticed it if I didn’t do some googling. Luckily I found this one that’s proportionate.
The 2nd one is listed as a “Big Horn edition” grille on eBay and I found it in gloss black. I like both of these a lot but I’m having a hard time picturing them on my Ram for some reason. These grilles are specifically for 2009-2012 1500’s. They also have versions of both of these grilles without the RAM badge but I prefer the badge there, I think it looks better.
Maybe I should just buy both and change them out month to month haha. Best of both worlds. Has anyone bought these and if so, are you happy with it? Any issues with durability, quality, etc? If you bought one of these and have a 2009-2012 Ram, please post photos of it, the pictures on eBay aren’t very good.
Photo of mine for reference.
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I like the Rebel style grille, but, I don’t want a raptor look with the lights. Not knocking anyone who has it, everybody likes different stuff. The yellow lights would clash with my white DRL’s/marker lights and the version with white lights would be overkill in my opinion. I’m also not much of a light guy, don’t really want any extra lights anywhere. I’d like this style grille better if there was a gloss black version to match better with the PX8 paint on my truck, I’m not a real big fan of matte plastic on the front end. (I guess I could have it painted) None of the above makes me like the grille any less, though.
If I bought the Rebel style grille, I’d just black out the raptor style lights before the install to fill the holes and would paint the RAM badge black. I can’t find a version of the Rebel style grille in the aftermarket world that doesn’t have the lights but still has the OEM looking RAM badge. Kind of a weird combination issue if you ask me. I found out there’s a commonly sold version out there in ebay land with a “skinny M” which looks really weird and I wouldn’t have noticed it if I didn’t do some googling. Luckily I found this one that’s proportionate.
The 2nd one is listed as a “Big Horn edition” grille on eBay and I found it in gloss black. I like both of these a lot but I’m having a hard time picturing them on my Ram for some reason. These grilles are specifically for 2009-2012 1500’s. They also have versions of both of these grilles without the RAM badge but I prefer the badge there, I think it looks better.
Maybe I should just buy both and change them out month to month haha. Best of both worlds. Has anyone bought these and if so, are you happy with it? Any issues with durability, quality, etc? If you bought one of these and have a 2009-2012 Ram, please post photos of it, the pictures on eBay aren’t very good.
Photo of mine for reference.
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