Lets continue with part 2, the partial grill block. As seen in the first image, the i10 has three major grill openings, a slim one around the Hyundai logo, another slim one above the licence plate and another much larger at the bottom.
The large one in the bottom is the one I am intending to block entirely. Now Hyundai has done some work on it already and blocked the outer edges. The actual grill opening I have marked in red (it was already late noon with a deep sun so the lighting isn't great
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As material I had some leftover black foam board at hand. Now despite it being cold and we just having a break from ice rain and snowfall I was able to use ultra high precision machinery to fabricate the grill block seen in picture 2. The CNC machine used to achive this is included in the pic
Fastening it to the grill was done with 2 cable ties, which proved to be a bit tricky but doable.
Pic 3 shows the result (yes, it got quite dark).
Also I did some weight measurements on the rear seats removed last time, 31 kg. So half my weight and the curb weight is now below 1000kg
I am probably going to pause now for a few days and try it out next week.