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Old Sep 22, 2006 | 12:17 AM
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Yes, which is exactly what I've already said in the first post. Which is also why I said I'm going to be working on getting it to fit better.

That one corner on the drivers side is where the fitment issue is that in turn causes it to bend weird in the middle also. I'm going to try and drill new holes for it to line it up better.
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Old Sep 22, 2006 | 12:41 AM
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yikes. Looks like you just wasted 450 bucks.
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Old Sep 22, 2006 | 12:43 AM
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awesome look. just need to fix it up just a tiny bit..
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Old Sep 22, 2006 | 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by cleoent
yikes. Looks like you just wasted 450 bucks.

Nah. That pic just makes it look bad and Mugatu did a very nice job of pointing that out. If you look at the other angles its not as bad. In real life its barely noticeable honestly. When people see it they don't notice until I point it out.

Like I said I'm going to fix it. If you check out old pics of Adrian's car (it was his bumper before me), you'll see it also wasn't that noticeable on his.

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Old Sep 22, 2006 | 09:57 PM
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The fit along the hood is horrible. I could not live with that.
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Old Sep 23, 2006 | 01:01 AM
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Once again it's not as bad in person, and for the 10th time I'm going to be fixing it. This Sunday I'm drilling new mounting holes and repositioning it.
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Old Sep 23, 2006 | 01:20 AM
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Looks like a basking shark
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Old Sep 23, 2006 | 11:33 AM
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I would have had the bottom lip painted black, for a little contrast. That part is Gunmetal gray on all the other colors, and that contrast looks great. Just my two bits.
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Old Sep 23, 2006 | 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by dDuB
Took some work to get it lined up as well as it could be, but obviously isn't perfect. And the paint ended up matching PERFECTLY!! I am so excited, it matches better than the stock bumper did, which is surprising. I went into the shop with the stock bumper on and brought them the replica bumper for painting, Mazda's Ti Grey pallet didn't match very well at all, so I chose another paint code that was slightly lighter than Mazda's, and voila it matched perfect! Quite happy about that.
Maybe the picture is deceiving, but it doesn't look like the paint matches perfectly at all. I looked at the pics in your post before I read the text and my first thought was "that paint doesn't look right". To my eyes, the difference is obvious in all but the photo taken in the garage (the one with the bumper on the car, of course), and still noticeable even in that case. I dunno, maybe it looks different in real life.
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Old Sep 23, 2006 | 09:29 PM
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^^same here
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