ok lets get straight to the point. You are asking whats the difference between each.

Its the price!

for $1200 more you will get a a bumper that fits perfectly.
for $1200 less you will get a bumper that may or may not fit perfectly.

"perfectly" being the keyword. so ask yourself this. do you wanna spend $1500 to be perfect. or would u rather spend $300 and settle for less than perfect.

also think about your total cost. it will still cost you to paint and install the authentic. its not like it comes painted and ready to plug in. (unless your a handy person u can install yourself). so after all that and shipping your looking at around close to $2k for a front bumper? i dont know about you but thats too much for just a front bumper. Thats alot of money to be undecided about.

 

i have the authentic impul front and it fits perfectly. no headaches at all. i have heard countless stories of replicas not fitting properly.

 

yes but its still alot cheaper to have it fitted properly. people think it costs over $1000 to have a poor fitting replica fixed properly. it doesnt. it will cost u at most $200 extra on top of the basic installlation charge. and it will come out the same. not perfect same. but damn close to perfect. i can live with that. to the original poster, can you? there's your answer

 

Lol, Ive had a memeber come to a local shop where I work out of time to time. He also had the TS knock off. He had it painted at one shop and then redone by my shop. It had waves and was a little short on the sides. So he paid one shop to paint it, and another to glaze it and repaint it. Hmm I guess if time and headach dont matter then gamble. For me Tahoe and Reno are about a hour away. Ill gamble there!
BTW the G isnt a lambo but its sures the hell not a civic!

 

I guess it really matters then if you want your car to look right or shoddy wrong...hmmmm

And I'd hate to have tell people...'yea, I went the cheap route, but you can't really see the waves when it's in the sun'....

 

Thanks alot guys but im just going with an authentic lol Now just got to choose the best one for an OB coupe .... tuff choice! lol

 

Good call. I think of it this way. Do you want to give your GF/wife a counterfeit knock-off Luis Viton purse or do you want to get her the genuine article?

 

Well.. if it's "Luis Viton" then i'm definately not going to get it for her..

However, I would get her a Louis Vuitton purse instead

speaking of counterfeit

 

Actually.. the waves are from a bad molding from a fiberglass molding.. not necessarily a "replica" but who's counting

 

Touche.

 

I would get the replica hands down.

I bought a kenstyle rear bumper replica. The body shop had to play with it a bit, but they made it work. I saved a ****load of money, and no one can tell the difference.

Save your money and get the replica.

 

Yea..either bad mold, too quick to pull the unit out of the mold or even a bad mixture in the batch...lots of reasons why they don't get done right.

Rick

 

Get the authentic if you want it perfect.

For example:

Urethane Replica = 600 bucks
Bodywork to get it close to RIGHT = 2000

AUTHENTIC = 2000
Bodwork to get it PERFECT = 600

 

Just a FYI. If your going to buy a knock off Kenstyle kit, why bother?
Knock off is about 450.00 a bumper.
Real is about 850.00 a bumper.
Its going to cost about 350.00 to fix and paint the knock off if you want it done right.
Its going to cost about 150.00 to paint the real deal.
Real bumper with paint 1000.00
Fake bumper with glaze primmer and paint 800.00
Now is 200.00 worth the headach?
Now Im not talking about if the fitment is so bad you have to send the knock off back. Now thats going to cost ya even more!

 

lol.