Lets all decorate our Diesel's for the holidays and post a picture!
 

I plan to mount a wreath on my grille. Nothing gawdy. Post a picture in few days. This thread may lie dormant for a few days/weeks, but it should come back to Life. Lets see those pictures of your Diesel in snow bank with an Xmas tree in the background---past or present.........

From a couple of years ago:

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Um, nah.

funny, i only clicked tis thread so i could reply with a flat No.

enjoy your wreath- ill pass, but ill probably still wave if i see you going the other way :)

Our cars all have a star on the hood, so they are decorated already. :D :D ;)

Never any snow banks around here, but there is a Wachovia.......:D

I thought that was supposed to be a reminder- Go to work at 8am, lunch at noon and go home at 4pm.

Yeah that too....its a multipurpose star. I use it as a cross hair when I see something I don't like. :D :D ;)

I'll leave the grill wreaths to the big rigs

Umm, skip the grille wreath.....
 

You need to consider something more subtle.

Each year we decorate our hood stars.

Lots of craft shops have small 3-4" dia wreaths that fit on the hood star. We attach them with a couple of pieces of safety wire, and have a couple with small red bows.

Low key, shows holiday spirit, without the in your face look of a huge wreath. Quite classy, actually.

Oh, never decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving......tacky.

Jim

Hmm... how 'bout a bloody reindeer head hood ornament with a light-up nose? :D

Nah, I think I'll just keep the soot decoration.

For me, it helps me ensure that I don't bump into things... for a while, when it had fallen off, I could never judge where the front of the car was and I would always hit the wall in the parking garage or bump other cars when parking. Now, I don't bump into anything anymore... well, with the front of the car anyway.

Both the diesels are green, that's Christmassy enough.

I'll second that....

I put a huge red bow on the front of mine last winter, turned out pretty well but it started to look tattery before I was ready to give up on it. That, and it never hung quite straight in the wind.

This year, I'm considering two possibilities. Whichever I don't do this year I'll do next year. I won't decorate until December.

1. Reindeer kit. Two antlers that ride the top of the windows and a nose on the grille (no way to light it up unfortunately). I'm leaning that way.
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2. Nice wreath on the grille. It'd be nice but I'm afraid it'll blow off... what a thing to have fly across the hood star onto the windshield at 75 mph...

Let me just run this idea by you... just temporarily... is there any EASY way, meaning without pulling the dash apart and installing five circuit breakers to protect the car... to tap into the voltage going to the headlights, under the hood? You can run a string of christmas lights on DC voltage... not a full string, but I'd make a string of ten or twelve (or get one of the battery operated strings and modify the box.) I'd like to put white christmas tree lights in the wreath and have them go on and off (RELIABLY, battery drain...) - with the headlights/parking lights/fogs. Any easy way without having to slice wires open and such? if it isn't simple I'll abandon it... or just use a battery box. I've got one already that does lights.