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A forum member emailed me for tips on installing these screens. I copied and pasted my reply here for all to see. Hope this helps. First of all, you need to remove the black plastic housing from each of the headlights...turn on the headlights, then switch them off so that just your parking lights are on and the headlights stay up. (HINT: Turn OFF your foglights) There are three little phillips head screws holding the headlight housings on. Take them off, then rotate the housing forward and down. They should pop right off. (HINT: When you replace them, make sure the little tab on the housing slides back into the little bracket above the headlight so they line up properly.) There are three screws that actually hold the screens in. I THINK they were 10mm but don't hold me to that. Two of them screw forward (the tip is pointed toward the front of the car) and one of them screws down (tip toward ground) If you look at your new screens, you'll see two holes on one end and one on the other end. The two holes that are located along the bottom of the screens are where the foglight wiring harness clips in. The hole in the screen near your foglight opening is for the adjustment screw on your foglight. And I'm not sure WHAT that little square hole is. I actually accessed the screws from three different angles. I reached in through the headlight bucket. I also reached in next to the air cleaner box (HINT: if you have an aftermarket air intake instead of the big black stock airbox, it will probably make things much easier for you. If not, pop up the handles and remove your airfilter element. This gives you a little more "wiggling" room to get your arm in there. I also got UNDER the car and removed all of the little screws connecting the front nose section to the black plastic piece under the front of the car. (HINT: You'll need to get the car up on jackstands to do this) I don't remember exactly but there were about 5 or 6 of these little screws pointing up, and one on each side pointing outward. I also removed the center section of the flexible rubber air dam. This was no big deal, just 2 little screws holding that on ...BUT (BIG HINT: The two screws holding the center flexible air dam section on are FINE thread, the screws holding the screens in are COARSE thread, though they have the same size heads. Don't get them mixed up as the fine threaded screws WILL go into the coarse holes but not vice versa. Trust me on this one!! I was almost finished and had to go BACK IN to find the one I had installed in the screen! Got it on the THIRD try. Once you get the screws out of the screen, you will also need to pop out the two little tabs that hold the foglight wiring harnes to the screens. This is easy if you can get to them with a small set of needlenosed pliers. Pinch the tips and they should slide out. If you can't get to them with pliers, you can work them out with your bare hands, but it takes some doing. You will also need to unscrew your foglight from the car. No big deal, there is only one screw holding the foglight bracket to the front of the car. No need to actually disconnect the foglight wiring harness, just unscrew the foglight bracket and set the foglight down out of the way inside the engine compartment. Now the screens will be completely loose and free inside the car. To get them out, you need to move them as far over toward the outside of the car as you can, flip them over so that the front (the portion you can see from the front of the car when they're installed) is facing down and work them up and over the hood bumpers which are sticking up. To put the new screens on, simply reverse everything you just did.