I wanted to reach out and ask how all of you guys are doing with your fiberglass kits? How long have you had them? Would you buy it again?


Yes I have a sedan but I wanted to ask this in the coupe form since there are tons of kits out for you guys and there are way more coupe owners with aftermarket stuff vs us sedan guys.

I got a 05 sedan and no one makes anything in poly yet.
I need to change up some parts with in the next month, since paint will be free for me and I need to make a decision if I am going to change out my front bumper.


I got a lip for my 05 sport bumper but it is scuffed up so instead of spending another 150 on a lip i was thinking about getting a bumper.

so far there are only 2 bumpers for thee 05-06 the nismo rep ( and it has no lisc plate area so ill be analed by cops here in cali) and the kurookie.(and vis supposedly has a k2 for my year, ill be going to vis tomorrow to look at it, so if anyone wants to join me let me know )


has any of your bumpers cracked yet? I constantly get lightly bumped once every few weeks as I go to sf for work and we all know people cant park for **** there.


Im tired of my bumper looking kind of plain, but if you guys think it wont stand up to daily abuse i may just have to pass.


thanks for your input

 

It will probably crack if someone bumps you. I ordered POLYURETHANE lip and damn is this thing flexible and unbreakable. You can jump on this thing and it wouldn't break.

 

If my urethane bumper had been f/g it would have been destroyed within the first year. My Kuruma Z bumper has been hit and twisted, since it was painted correctly it shows zero evidence of having ever been touched. I even got hit by one of those big azz truck recaps, it did nothing but leave scuff marks which waxed off. Fiber glass bumpers, not a great idea....
Gary

 

My greddy bumper has been perfect with the exception of having a tractor trailer blow a tire right in front of me and me not being able to avoid it.It now has a crack and a hole in it but its no biggie as i have a guy who can fix it for me.

 

poly FTW! If I had F/B, oh buddy, I dont think I would even have a bumper still.. I still scrape just about everyday... and only thing messed up is the paint at the bottom... along with some stress cracks in the paint, but thats just a cheap azs paint job..

 

I have fiberglass, its easy to repair if it breaks.

 

I wish they made my INVEN in poly. I have had mine for under a year and I have multiple cracks & stress cracks from scraping. It sucks.

 

So is urethane. 3M, Fusor, and SEM all make epoxies to repair urethane, way easier to repair than dealing with matting and resin. Ive repaired both, would rather repair urethane over fiberglass.

 

i do a lot of canyon running, and most canyons the pavement is uneven with a lot of bumps.

so i take it as fb would be a definite no for me?

 

^How low are you?

 

im droped 1.6 all around rsr springs. and tires are a little shorter than stock height

 

Your bumper will be about 4 inches off the ground at that height with the KuRookie. You aren't slammed so you should be scraping that often as long as you take driveways at angles. My KuRookie has been through a lot in the past 1+ years of daily driving. The underside of my bumper is all scraped up. It was held up very very well for FG. No real cracks yet, knock on wood.

I'd be more concerned about parking in SF where people bump you, you can't park in a garage and not on the street? But I'd have the same concern with Poly too.

 

I had the KuRookie and loved it. Best bumper out there for our cars IMO because of it's quality. I put it through HELL. I mean I would scrape the crap out of it and no problems. It wasn't till I got into a really bad situation that it cracked....poly bumper woulda done the same. Thanks to it being fiberglass i was able to make a custom bumper. Fiberglass is an easy fix, poly, not so easy.

 

yeah i love fiberglass. I have just about ripped the bottom of my kurookie off from scraping all over, but it's still holding. My front fenders are actually showing stress cracks and my bumper is fine go figure. Best part is it will look brand new in about a month after i repaint and add fiberglass to the bottom.

As for abuse I recently got hit by a chunk of a tire ( size of a baseball ) on the freeway. It hit on my lower drivers side on my fiberglass bumper . It chipped paint but thats it. ....

 

That's exactly what I did with my KuRookie, just added fiberglass and fixed it....good as new , but then a stupid tire hit the bumper driving 70 mph on the fwy and i took a forward plunge into a dip