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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: twiglet on 14 October 2011, 22:25:27

Title: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: twiglet on 14 October 2011, 22:25:27

As title, do the skins go straight on, or do the black metal bars have to be replaces as well?  Anything else that also has to be changed over (thinking wheel arch liners, etc)?

TIA  :y

Title: Re: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: RobG on 14 October 2011, 22:28:47

Front or rear?

Title: Re: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: twiglet on 14 October 2011, 22:34:57

both  :y

Title: Re: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: RobG on 14 October 2011, 22:44:05

Rear.........straight on.
Front........needs F/L rebar & polystyrene and IIRC you`ll have to trim the lower edge of the grille, will be a tight fit on headlights, FYI, F/L headlights will fit a MFL if the lower inner corner is rounded off along with the F/L underlight trims

Title: Re: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: fiend61 on 14 October 2011, 23:42:41

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Rear.........straight on

not quite right rob the facelift polystyrene is slightly bigger on the facelift and you need the inner wheel arches as the facelift has different securing screws, well did on mine  :y

Title: Re: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: RobG on 15 October 2011, 00:56:15

Quote from: fiend61 on 14 October 2011, 23:42:41

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Rear.........straight on

not quite right rob the facelift polystyrene is slightly bigger on the facelift and you need the inner wheel arches as the facelift has different securing screws, well did on mine  :y

Don`t need the F/L polystyrene for the rear. I sold a F/L rear to a local member and it fitted straight on to his MFL without changing the arch liners ;)

Title: Re: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: TheBoy on 15 October 2011, 09:25:12

without the polystyrene, the rear bumpers rattle like a bitch

Title: Re: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: 05omegav6 on 16 October 2011, 04:40:22

Just a thought, and I might be wrong, but...

For the front end,  surely you might as well swap the bonnet as well rather than hacking the f/l bits to fit the p/f/l grill etc. :-\

Title: Re: F/L bumper skins onto a pre F/L saloon
Post by: fiend61 on 16 October 2011, 08:00:07

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surely you might as well swap the bonnet as well rather than hacking the f/l bits to fit the p/f/l grill etc.

it is easier to trim the bits as rob has said al. otherwise if you swap the bonnet you need to cut out the slam panel out of p/f/l (where the bonnet catch is) and weld in a f/l one. they are slightly different  :y