^ rvinyl.com and had a auto tint guy put it on for me.
as a pro at tinting stuff, even he said the rx8 backlights are the trickiest parts that he's ever tinted... but well it just cost me 25 bucks for a full hour job...

 

They looked good smoked like that. I'm thinking about doing that as well. Might do G4 Stealth coating in the front, and tint on the rear.

 

any prob. with cops?

 

Looks real good!

My husband and I are putting the bumper and fog light brackets on today, but we started to skip the part where you cut the air ducts in half and reinstall the one half.

Do you know if the guy did that part? I thought I saw in this pic that it's on there, but couldn't tell for sure...

 

tint on winning blue is badass
nah man... they don't care **** here in florida! :D
lol kuro that's the thing
dondo helped me with the problem, the bumper was not fitting well.
the guy didn't remove the oil cooler duct (the rubber part) from the car, so the whole thing is protruding the whole bumper out.
i took off the bumper and remove the rubber then skipped the air duct completely. the ducts are supposed to just guide air into the coolers.

i've got some pics after the fix in the post below

 

and here comes the pics from the midnight wax job :D

WTF are these???



























^ and guys this is why i can't have the MazdaSpeed sides


i love my car :D

 

you need to pull out the oil cooler ducts too. you can see them in this pic

 

Sorry not the oil coolers (not the rubber part). The MS Nose comes with some plastic ducts that sit over the screens inside the bumper. In order to install the brackets, the instructions say that you have to cut these ducts in half based on the angle of the fog log bracket.

Now that I looked at your pics again, I don't think there are on there.

I'm just wondering if people actually put them on, or just left them off cause they don't seem to have very much functionality once they are cut in half.

 

yea that's wt i figured too, so i just pulled both plastic/rubber pieces off the car, saved a bit of weight too eh? :D

 

Personally, I always thought that the fog lights with the MS nose looked a little to busy for my tastes, so I decided not to put them on. It looks really clean without them IMO. (Hope this post is relevant! Sorry for the big pic.)

 

Very cool, thanks for the info!

 

yeah as long as you're not blocking the airflow you'll be ok.

 

hey guys...
bad news
i.
cracked.
my.
bumper.






















































more pics will be up since This is gonna be FOR SALE at some point.


and i cracked the right fender part. will post pics of that tmr.


the damage itself isn't that bad.
all that just cauese... well this happened.

(misjudged the driveway curb) yea well another bad day driving my 8

well this ain't too sad
Good thing is cuz i just saved up some cash, gave it some thought, decided just o wth and bought another one. And hey guess what, I bought the LAST ONE well new one anyways. (there still are 3 primered stocked in the US)
for full story -> https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...9&postcount=10

 

Oh damn, I'm sorry! That sucks... and yeah I know those MS bodykits are almost done!

 

Why not fix the existing bumper?

 

crap. why aren't they bringing any more over?

 

I think the painted ones are discontinued. I believe the primed ones are still available though.

 

sad days...

 

very sad indeed.
well i heard from the Dealer guy that Mazda has discontinued all of the Mazdaspeed Front Bumpers basically, and that there are 3 primed ones left in the US. When those are gone, there won't be nothing left!


And reason why I'm not fixing is, cuz in where I'm at, most of the body shop suck, and for those that don't suck, they just don't do these types of work.
So I'm better off just ordering a new one and sell this to someone who can easily find a shop to fix this.
Of course the part where I learn the bumper is being discontinued and I luckily found the last one kinda ticked me into buying it.

 

damn

 

ouch!

 

haha nice bump.

but in other news i confirmed that the primer mazdaspeed bumpers are not going to be discontinued

 

yea they are not, but i think it'll take a couple weeks to get them. primer might be the better way to go anyways cuz it seems that the color on pre-painted ones are a bit off.

 

just a fyi, I hit a deer and my bumper looked one hell of a lot worse than yours does in that pic.

damage I had:

-crack around headlights
-crack from edge of middle grill towards the headlight about 4 inches long
-the area in the fender well where the clips go in was cracked off
-crack near sidemarker light.
-bump in the middle of the bumper where the bumper support started to push through

all of which was corrected. I am ****, and it looks like it has never been damaged before.

I think lots of shops can work on these bumpers.

did you ever get this fixed again?

 

nope, sold it