the rear is pretty much a straight swap job, the front needs a touch of persuading if your leaving the old wings on, the original front section can be taken off out of the way, really as the newer front bumper sits in its place anyway
Thanks Brummy! Yeah I've read about them so much by now, just a case of doing it!
Got a set of fogs to come too, so any help on those would be much appreciated when the time comes! So the rear bumper will cover the old metal skirt will it? go over the bottom of it...
If memory serves all I had to really do was a little forming and offer up a few self tapping screws along the bottom to keep it in place
and with the front fogs, if you wanted them working, one way of doing it would be to wire them through to a seperate switch rather than tring to suss out where on the loom you would need to chop in (and you would possibly have to get a replacement lightswitch unit from a fog- light modal as again I dont recall my old 1.4 having the secondary switching
and with the front fogs, if you wanted them working, one way of doing it would be to wire them through to a seperate switch rather than tring to suss out where on the loom you would need to chop in (and you would possibly have to get a replacement lightswitch unit from a fog- light modal as again I dont recall my old 1.4 having the secondary switching
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No it doesn't. But I have a front / rear switch hanging about from a Polo 16v, so s'all good.
That bottom metal bit (covered in newspaper (bottom right)) kinda sticks out doesn't it, that's my only concern...
And the cutout for the exhaust on the new bumper, (getting a double backbox soon), but will you see the olf red skirt through the cut out?
That bottom metal bit (covered in newspaper (bottom right)) kinda sticks out doesn't it, that's my only concern...
And the cutout for the exhaust on the new bumper, (getting a double backbox soon), but will you see the olf red skirt through the cut out?
Not if you *persuade it* to hide out of the way (the exhuast bit I mean)
the rear bumper should fold over the metal skin of the rear arch and if you run a bit of Silkaflex around the edge and then use self tappers it should sit over the edge quite tidily
(the exhuast bit I mean) the rear bumper should fold over the metal skin of the rear arch and if you run a bit of Silkaflex around the edge and then use self tappers it should sit over the edge quite tidily
Wont bulge out at all will it?... I was thinking of getting the newer arch liners... Sorry to be a pain, it's just, I'm getting the arches done etc, and want it to look pretty mint eventually...so I want a pretty decent looking job
mine looked ok (unfortunately, Ive no pics of it from an angle that shows it properly, as ive only few pics of the old cars on this lappy) As I say, the silkaflex/self tappers did their job
No worries, If i find any more pics, i'll link 'em up on this thread , but really dont think I have any more..
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