Hey guys, john here with Realtruck.com.
Today, I want to show you how to install the
AVS auto vent shade chrome bug shield onto
this 2014 Chevy Silverado 1500.
As you can see here, your hood shield comes
with everything you need to get this onto
your truck.
It has your machine screws, it comes with
both your brackets, the protective film for
your hood, it also has your alcohol wipe pads,
your black plastic washers that go onto your
screws, and also what's called your bump-ons.
These go on your hood behind the hood shield.
Once we have everything ready to go, then
what we want to do is prep the hood to install
our bug shield.
What I'm going to do is here is just take
the alcohol wipes that come with the bug shield
and wipe this all down across the hood.
Now what we're going to do is we're going
to take our machine screw, our plastic washer,
and we're going to put those together.
Take our clip, and we're going to put our
clip onto here.
Now, one thing to remember when we put the
clip on, is that it goes on the underside
and you want to have it so that the clip part
faces up towards the top of your bug shield.
Tighten these down.
Do not over tighten these, guys.
Then what we're going to do is we're going
to take this over to the truck and mark where
they're going to go on the hood, so that we
can put our protective film onto the hood.
What that does is that stops these clips from
scratching the paint on your hood.
We're just going to line that up about where
it's going to go and put a mark.
And this is a specially-designed pencil for
marking metal and paint.
It just rubs right off and doesn't leave any
permanent marks on your paint.
We'll take our protective film, and we're
going to go back over here on the hood where
we made our mark, and just pull this rubber
seal down a little bit.
And then just center this protective film
over your mark.
You can see it's clear and virtually unnoticeable.
So we'll put the one on the other side, and
then we'll start attaching our bug shield
to our hood.
Then we'll get ready to put our bug shield
onto our truck.
What we want to do is pull it back a couple
inches, enough to hang this down underneath,
and we're going to do that on each end.
Okay.
Once we have that ready, then we'll take our
bug shield over to our truck, put it up on
here in place where it goes.
Now, we're going to take our clips that we
installed and make sure that we have those
centered on our protective film that we put
on here.
Okay.
Once we have our clips slid up over our protective
film, then what we want to do is bring our
bug shield back down here to a decent level
where we can kind of see what we're doing
and grab our tape and peel our tape out from
behind it.
Do the same thing on the other side.
And then what we want to do is go along behind
it on the back side and just kind of push
it down along the area where the tape is.
Just go ahead and install our bump stops and
just peel the backing off the back of them.
And then what we're going to do is we're going
to put them underneath out here on the ends
and just stick them on there.
what those basically are for is so that way
when you're driving this down the road and
you get a little wind going on on the end
of the deflector, it's not pushing it up against
the hood and rubbing it on your hood and tearing
up your paints.
All right, guys.
There you have it.
That's how quick, simple, and easy it is to
install the AVS chrome bug shield onto your
truck.
So remember until next time, happy motoring.
