Remember this Bumper Cover?
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"88 300CE- First Year Production
Remember this Bumper Cover?
Remember this was on sale less than a year ago? Well does it look ready to go on the car? I was cheap and rattle canned it with a duplicolor bumper paint. Curtesy of PTORO I got a great deal on a front bumper with the chrome on it. As far as I can say you can only tell its been rattle can with intense light on it. Tell me what you all think? Oh I have Piaa driving lights in there.
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"88 300CE- First Year Production
I really would like too, with me forever procrastinating it still haven't made it on the car yet. I don't know the first step to who or how to make copies. I really now wanna remove all the lower cladding and have it painted to macth my rims (hyper silver). Especially now that somebody did a hit and run and cracked my rear bumper and strip.
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I'd buy a copy of that. I remeber someone on bnzsport/club202 made some brabus 202 replicas a few years back somewhere in the bay area. Maybe you could go on club202 and ask around..I think it was a pretty big member who had it done
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"88 300CE- First Year Production
I finally installed the bumper on the car and have to say WOW! The foglights totally compliment the headlights where getting newer style lights is not of importance to me anymore. Too bad I work all weekend and have no time to take pictures in the sun (dead batteries as well). For the older style hoods and two tone look I like it much better than the AMG bumper, anybody know where I can find other bodykit pieces? I'll post pics within the next two days.....
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First of all my apologies to my car being dirty, I haven't washed it in almost 2 months. Besides that I had an accident with the spoiler already, but no worries as I know how to repair fiberglass. The accident was me not realizing how low the bumper actually was. Now it is about 5 inches from the ground with the stock springs I had to reinstall for more clearance, and if you can remember whem I had the Terra springs on the car I had more than a 2 inch drop and with that drop the accident happened. And if you pay attention you will notice that the other cladding isn't the same shade of silver and won't be painted to match until I get a new bumper for the rear that somebody did a hit and run on it while the car was parked. So do you all think I should get an AMG rear bump or a factory rear bumper? Oh and with the rear tires I had to put spring pad over spring pad to get that size tire to fit (they were freesnow tires) thats why it might look hiked up like that back there right now and will be replaced next week with 225/45r18's instead of 235/50'18's.
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"88 300CE- First Year Production
The front spoiler I believe was made by TC customs but was bought from a member on this forum, and the trunk spoiler is a Carat Duchatelet, had to get it shipped from Germany too!
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Nice bumper but I think to pull off a front bumper only look you'd have to paint your lowers all black. Obviously it'd be great to find the other pieces for the kit but that can be hard with cars as old as ours are.
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Well the way that I see it is the lines of the factory side skirts were set perfect to come off of a lower front bumper. It doesn't look so obvious now cause of the different shades of color. But I wanted the opinion of the rear bumper. I'm definately not gonna paint my cladding black I want my car to represent what looked hot in the 80's (when I was born) then again the chrome bumper strips weren't there at the time either.
