Bocephus
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I’m not sure Mopar ever sold a satin black grille with mounts for the camera, separate from ordering it factory built. Everyone buys the JL or JT satin black grill (JT for me) and swaps over their internal mesh so the camera ends up in the new grill with the OEM mount locations for camera. You definitely have to pop out the little metal screw clips also and swap those into the new grill, but they pop out and press in pretty easy. Check out the videoJust an update for anyone attempting this in the future as it doesn’t appear as if Mopar is selling a direct Satin grill replacement for those with trail cameras any longer.
There are technically two different part numbers for the Satin grill: 82216097 (JT), and 82215114 (JL).
The primary difference use to be that the JT grill inserts (also used on the 3.0 Diesel) were larger to facilitate the camera mounting, and this included four threadable inserts in the middle
The JL version had grill inserts with smaller diameters, which necessitated transferring over the grill inserts to account for the camera.
I recently attempted this, only to find that the grills are they are now selling (both 82216097 and 82215114) don’t have the inner posts for camera mounting
The mounting points are plastic welded to the grill, so there’s no way of swapping them over. What I ended up doing is removing the metal nutsert from the middle mounting posts on the original grill, and just using them as nuts to affix the camera backing plate to the swapped grill insert. The camera ends up basically being held in bracket style to the grill by way of the outer two screws.
Hopefully this saves someone the headache of thinking they ordered the wrong grill and let’s them just modify the install slightly.
Linked in thread above from about the 7 to 9 minute mark. Is that what you’re describing?
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