But on Friday my 22dollar RFRB grille lookalike came in the post! I was pretty stoked and got to unwrapping the 3tonnes of bubble wrap off of it right away...
In my opinion, its such a waste..
anyway the build quality is ..decent. its not plastic but something similar to fibreglass in its fabrication methods.. :
The black outer layer is very fragile and chips off and scratches quite easily.. other than that its pretty sturdy.
The mesh was pretty roughly put on as u can see, so i trimmed that down nicely and then had to cut bracket holes for the screws from the original grille. Did this on the two ends but it wasnt possible to do it across the top, so drilled holes..
I had to cut a bit of metal off the middle tab of the bonnet bcos it was in theway as it is off-centre ..dont no why..
Covered up the exposed metal with some red touch up paint i have to prevent rust.
..anyway, after a good 2 hours of workin it to fit and eventually using cable ties for 4 of the 6 connection points, the grille looked pretty nice..
Before:
During, without the grille coz i had to go pick up CREAMFIELDS tix (anyone into that and goin?):
After:
After that, i was a tad bored so decided to put the bubble wrap to good use..
Doing the clear side blinkers on libs is generally to make them less noticeable and nicer looking, however white on red as oppsed to orange on red wuld make them look more noticeable and probs ugly..
so i ripped a hole in the bubble wrap and taped up the car body (so much easier than using sheets of newspaper) and gave them a light tint with the same stuff i used on the back. I like the small difference it acheived
Unsure if i should paint the black outer to the body colour and the mesh to black or just leave it. Wat are your opinions guys?
-supporting leaving it as is; the black will match a front lip if i manage to find one.
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peace.
