Video Transcript for A Closer Look at the Westin HDX Grille Guard with Punch Plate

Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we've got the Westin HGX grill guard. Adding a grill guard to the front of your truck's not only gonna be a stylish thing, but it's going to be practical. There's many different reasons why people like to put grill guards on. Most of the reason is typically for style, they like the way they look on the front of their truck. It gives it a more rugged, more of a farm style look.

But this is actually going to do some good to be able to protect the front of your truck. If you get into a small collision or something like that, whether it's maybe a big chunk of ice or something coming at you on the highway or a tire, something like that, it's gonna hit your grill guard and not the grill of your truck. You may look at the price of this grill guard and think, wow, that's really, really expensive to have to replace or to have to fix whatever. Everything behind it, I guarantee you costs more than the grill guard itself. We are gonna have some rubber bumpers here on either side, just in case you're to bump into something, or if you have to push something on the lighter side.

I wouldn't necessarily say you can use this to push heavier items because of the way that it's attached. It's more than strong enough to hold itself up and to deflect those things that may come in contact with it. But the way that it's attached on here, I would not recommend pushing something super heavy like a round bale or anything like that. The version we have in front of us today is going to be the polished stainless steel edition. We have some other colors on our website if you want to go with a gloss or a matte black.

This one's also going to have the stainless steel punch plate in the middle, which definitely helps to show off the flash of this, you can get it without this punch plate in those different colors and in the stainless steel if you don't like that extra flare there in the middle. The other thing is, is that this is all one solid piece. Everything on this is welded together, and the reason why I say that is there are some additions on our website that are going to be a three piece, so you'll have the middle section and then then two side sections that you'll have to bolt all together. I would say if I was going to put one on my truck, I would probably put the fully welded one. It comes in a massive package so that you can just bolt your brackets on, lift this up into place and get it bolted on.

The way that this grill guard's gonna install, it's going to have two brackets, one on either side, and it's going to be on the outside of your tow loops that will bolt to the side of your frame rail. You're gonna have another bracket that's gonna be right here on top of the bumper. That will also bolt to a pre-existing bolt on the backside of the bumper, so you don't have to drill any holes. The only modifications to your truck that you will have to make in order to get this installed is you'll see in here that if you look at your truck, there's going to be a decorative plastic piece in here that covers that opening. You're just gonna have to cut that out. In your instructions they have, you have a very finite amount of plastic that you're cutting out. I think it looks a lot cleaner if you just go ahead and cut the whole thing out. It looks a lot more uniform to me and everything fits perfect. Well, guys, that's gonna do a first look at the Westin HDX Grill Guard.