To Phantom and all interested.
Heres my own experience of bumper removal and grill swap.
Tools required:-
1. Patience,
2. The odd skint knuckles/back of the hand.
3. T-20/T25/-T30 Torx fittings or similar.
4. 10mm socket.
5. Ratchet drive and extensions.
6. Phillips screwdriver.
Ok. Park car and place something soft (Mat/dust sheet etc) in front of car
Number Plate.
Remove number plate as the screws secure the grill to the cross bar of bumper. (Which you can't see at this point) Trust me. It caught me at the grill removal point mentioned below so do it 1st.
Bonnet up.
Remove 3 x torx screws along top of grill.
Under Bumper (thats you lying on the deck looking towards the rear).
Remove 7 x torx screws along length of bumper. there are 4 i think visible and another 3 behind bumper edge/under engine tray valance.
Wheel arch (you can do this with wheels still on).
Full lock steering. The side your working on should have wheel pointing in.
Remove 3 vertical torx screws.(at edge)
Remove 2 horizontal torx screws. (Where inner plastic wings meet.)
Peel/push back inner plastic wing. (Scrape/score rear of hands).
Looking up between wing and bumper feel for two longer torx screws and remove same.
Looking in towards edge of lamp unit locate and remove 10mm bolt that sits at bottom edge of lamp unit to wing/bumper.(You'll probably need the extension bar on the ratchet to reach)
Pop side of bumper away from wing.(Quite easy)
Repeat for other side of car.
Front of car.
With your mat/soft area in place.
You can now withdraw bumper/grill from car and let it sit in front of car attached by the headlamp washer hoses and fog lamp wiring.
NOTE due to the ease of the S3 grill fitting at this point. You do not unless you want to have to remove either the headlamp washers fittings or the fog lamps couplers.
Grill.
Working where bumper placed and looking down behind bumper/grill.
There are 13 phillips screws.
Remove 3 at each side.
Remove 3 along bottom.
Remove 4 (2 at either side of number plate crossbar)
Depress 1 clip (2 off) at either end of number plate crossbar.
Depress 1 clip (2 off) at top side corners of grill.
Depress 1 clip (2 off) at top of grill near to outside edges where you removed 2 torx screws at the bonnet up part mentioned above.
Remove Grill from car. TA DA. :thumbsup:
NOTE. Before you do it all in reverse.Fit your silver vision or equivalent indicator bulbs while all this is off. Thats what i did anyway. You find it easy.
Refit all in reverse of above and thats it.
New Optik grill on car and you should have saved yourself at least £180 or so.
Jas.