Well we ran into a few snags with the Scion tC Kaeon Style bumper and fitment issues; we will get to that in a bit.

Since the project car is in Alabama and the urethane/fiberglass/carbonfiber (UFC) manufacturer is in California we didn’t have a tC at our disposal to keep at the shop for 3-4 weeks. Since it takes 3-5 weeks to go from prototype to production on UFC parts, we have had the help of two of our California native users to complete this project. Rolando and Paul have full time jobs with full time lives and the tC is their primary car. They have been taking turns the past week or so dropping their cars off for 1-2 days at a time when needed; this is where the problem came in...

The problem…
In order to make the prototype bumper we took an OEM plastic bumper and copied it in fiberglass in order to mold the new style in fiberglass together. When in the mold production process, fiberglass-plastic prototypes are harder to work with than fiberglass-fiberglass prototypes. We are not sure where something went wrong but when Paul dropped his car off on Friday for the final test fitment before mold production stage the bumper didn’t fit right. Underneath the passenger side headlight the bumper didn’t sit snug and on the driver side the case was the same just not as extreme. As you can see in the pictures below the bumper had to be cut on either side to give the bumper play in order to fit snug. The passenger side was so extreme that a new piece had to be put in and re-molded into the prototype.

The pictures you see below were taken around 7pm on February 19, 2005, and by the following week we will have updated pictures of the new fitment. So far we are still on schedule for the March 14, 2005 date that we will have them in stock. We will have them a week or so before that but not plenty, we say March 14, 2005 to give us time to have plenty kits made to stock.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to ask. Majority questions are if we will sell in a full kit and the answer is yes. The side skirts and rear lip are from the Vengeance lip kit that we have on our project car, the problem is the car is in Alabama. Our plan is to have the front bumper done and installed on our project car to show at the Daytona Scion Exposed event. The Monday following the Daytona Scion Exposed event the sides and rear lip will be sent to California to have the mold made and 1-2 weeks is all the time needed to make the two molds. We are figuring the complete kit can be shipped somewhere in the middle of April, we will have a confirmed date after the Daytona Scion Exposed event.





click here to see the Scion tC Kaeon Style Bumper Picture Gallery
click here for original article.

 

How much is this going to cost and is it a full kit or just the front bumper?

What kind of payments methods are available and how long for shipping? Is there a pre order discounted price if ordered before march 14th?

 

Some _____ on the highway hit some piece of metal, flinging it into my car, resulting in my now needing a new front bumper. I wish this bumper was for sale now, i would buy it. unless it's rediculously expensive.

 

Im getting this front bumper not the whole kit

 

damn it looks like it was way off or you just got ____ed and through it across the room but i hope every thing goes good when they go into full production. i realy want to pick one up

 

I like it a lot and it flows really well with the tC...

But it looks like you just took a BMW M3 bumper and molded it to fit on a scion tC.


Looks really good, just not really original.

 

^ its keon did a photo shop of this bumper on a tc and thats what got this project started

 

Looks excatly like the BMW. Not original enough for my tastes.

 

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^^
whatever I think it looks sweeeet.

 

After seeing various photoshops and ideas of bumper styles to go with, the Kaeon photoshop received the most response. This bumper isnt what we want to make, its what everyone asked for.

 

how much will just the bumper cost?

 

i couldn't agree more. everything else i've seen for the tC looks like total crap. this actually copies german design, which IMO is light years ahead of anything the japanese bodykit manufacturers are putting out.

 

Kaminari kit? I think it looks great! This kit looks good, just alot of people are looking for originality. Not a bad looking kit at all. Good stuff! Mad props to creating it, just an opinion!

 

Exactly. That kit looks awesome, copy or not.

Everything else on the car is borrowed, why not the bumper?

 

tru^

 

Kaminari kit is decent.. but still too much for me and a lot of other people I think. Is it too much to ask for a simply stylish, low-key and somewhat elegant body kit? No. I think not. Not all of us are going for the "Hey look at me I'm tryin to get my car into the Fast n Furious III movie" look..

 

long story short -- 16 year old girl backed an sl55 into my tc in a parking lot and her dad is being more than accomodating...

my debit card is out and ready to order pending a reply to a question I sent you guys via the contact form yesterday afternoon...

 

will there be options for fog lights?

 

I think itll look great once you iron out the kinks.....literally!

It gives a sophisticated yet sleeper look to our tC....which it already has.....but more so