I just replaced my TRD front lip with a new abs front lip spoiler but then after I installed my lip the old lip left some ugly holes on my bumper, I am going to take my car to a body shop to cover up the holes including the holes from the license plate but its gonna cost me a few more hundred bucks. Anybody had similar probs like mine? any suggestions?

 

thats the way it is with the OEM lip kit, besides double sided tape, but it wouldnt hold long.

 

How was the fit on the new lip ? I just got on (CF)

 

im no body mechanic but im sure if you tape up the back fill in the holes with some body filler. and sand it down to perfection. you could just get it repainted instead of the all the work done there.

 

no, you have to use stuff for bumpers, basicly you have to fill the holes with the liquid plastic(bumper repair stuff) its about 60 bucks for the stuff, and another hundred for the gun, then it all has to be ground down, your better off getting it done by a pro, because the paint on that lip looks like butt

 

if you havent gotten rid of the oem kit yet, sell your bumper and lip together... do a money + bumper trade.

 

i dont know it seems ike the bumper has water on it. but it could be me., but good idea with the liguid plastic. didnt thuink of that.

 

Good suggestion guys at least i have some options to think it over, no regrets about the new lip though it fits fine except that you have to do some extra work to fit in the lower grill.

Here's another pic of the holes with lip...

 

the best way to do it...is get a product called fusor. it is basicly super super car glue lol. throw some duck tape on the back of each hole and fill the holes with the stuff. let it dry for a couple hours. then go back and sand it flat. once its flat, take some bondo/plastic whatever you want to call it and do a very very minimal and very thin whipe over each hole. let it dry a good hour or so. once that is done..take it to a bodyshop and hope you did it right.

in all honesty. it will be about the same price to buy a new bumper and have it painted, than to have a shop fix it.

before anybody tries to contradict me. i work in a bodyshop. i have filled holes like this before. it is not easy nor does the finished product look right. you will get pin holes, you will get a wobble. normal people wouldnt notice it, but car nuts would.

my professional suggestion is to buy a new bumper.

if you have any other questions, let me know.

 

it will cost the same to do the repairs yourself, maybe a little less, but you won't be pleased if you don't know how to do it, if you take it to a shop, they could have it fixed in a few hours, and you will be really pleased with the work

 

um...no they cant fix that in a few hours...even if they were hurring and only working on that it would take no less than a day. dry times are a killer. that and sanding them to make it smooth again. that will take a few coats of primer and possible 2 to 3 different primes to get it flat.

 

we can fix a bumper, better then knew inhalf a day, and have it painted in about 2 hours, counting priming and everything

 

i dont doubt that..but when you have as many holes as in his bumper, it will take time to get it right and look FACTORY again. Fusor alone takes time to FULLY dry. so does bondo. so does primer. if you think you can fix taht in half a day, that is a shotty job. sure i could do it in half a day. it would look like crap and wouldnt last. this is the front of the mans car. it takes the most beating of the car. rocks and dirt and rain any everything hit the bumper.

 

you could have swaped with somebody elses stock bumpers, they get a trd kit and you get no holes.

 

smart guy..very smart guy. that genius

 

^^ yes.... thats the best idea i've heard!

 

lol. i love how people never read through the thread before posting. but yeah, GREAT IDEA MAN! i never would've thought of that.

 

what do you mean people never read the thread before posting?

 

Lol. Good one dude.

 

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