Does the design of a front hood grill for 6th gen civics have anything to do with security/anti-theft? It seems like the OEM is blocked off in the middle to prevent hood latch tampering. Am I right? This is the grill I have now and probably wont go back regardless.

 

It is probably just a design, if someone wanted to open your hood there are a number of ways they could.

 

Hood latches have two locked positions. When you're driving around town, it's in position 1 (hood closed, and latched). When you pull your hood release, it pops to position 2 ( hood open, still latched). So if they get past the grille, they'd have to break or cut the latch to access the engine.

Regardless, if a thief wants in, he will do whatever necessary to. A plastic grille won't stop anything.

 

Huh. I'm aware of at least one way to open the hood via the passenger wheel well. I just seemed to me that most cars with an open front grill were shrouded around the badge/ hood latch area. When I have more money and time I'll be adding an alarm system, kill switch and relocating the hood cable. I've even thought about adding some kind bracket near the clutch pedal to so I can use a lock to keep the clutch from being disengaged.