Urethane Lip Fitment

[ghetto waggon]

wb more screws?
i'm starting to think if I had bolted mine down with 4-6 in various places, I wouldn'tve lost it.

Someone on here said they had 6 in there,

any input?

 

[azeli73]

Truc's right, I have 3M double sided tape holding the lip that is suppose to butt up against the lower grill. And when that hold gave out I removed it and tried the liquid version of 3M's adhesive. This worked for about a half a day and it was right back to sagging. Guess my option is to get the crazy bondo out and set it and fotget it for good. Problem is if I go that route, it'll never come off.

The parts that wraps around the fender wall was measured out like 10 times. The problem with that side is the very top of the lip.

It doesn't warp around and hug the bumper like it should. Like it DOES on the driver side. Bottom line is I got a bad lip and it's never going to fit correctly.

 

[Mr. Win]

in that picture right there youve got the lip sitting to high. i also put screws in the little vents at the back of the vent into the bumper to help snug things up.

 

[Jliao]

I have mine pushed all the way back (I think) and screwed in, and I also I have 3M double sided tape under that center section. Though, the center section of the lip is not even touching the stock bumper, so the tape isn't doing a whole lot.

 

[PhatTrax]

if you could find a way of making some fasteners in the middle without drilling through anything that'd be a good way to prevent all this

 

[Emode]

well I was planning on getting the urethane front lip but after this new set of problems forget it.
dg get your s*** together for once.....

 

[tonkabui]

wb more screws?
i'm starting to think if I had bolted mine down with 4-6 in various places, I wouldn'tve lost it.

Someone on here said they had 6 in there,

any input?

you can't really bolt it down anywhere other than the wheel wells unless you want ugly bolts where people can see it. the problem here is the front and passenger side, so adding more bolts to the whell wells won't do any good. i think his only option is to have it molded to fit.

 

[PhatTrax]

time to break out the jb weld

 

[azeli73]

Really? Then why does the driver side measure identically to the passenger side and sit flush?

in that picture right there youve got the lip sitting to high. i also put screws in the little vents at the back of the vent into the bumper to help snug things up.

 

[JOS3]

i think your problems lie in the fact that you cant get the tape to stick. i have gaps, but not that bad. i have tried pretty much every tape i could find and the only one that i could get to stick to the lip is the rubber-type grey 3M tape with the red backing. it is rated to hold up 5lbs per 4 inches of tape. it holds so good, i dont think ill be able to get it off for the winter.

you just need to somehow find a way to get it to stick to the front end and it wont look as bad.

 

[Mr. Win]

Really? Then why does the driver side measure identically to the passenger side and sit flush?

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cool! but its still to high it should come down a bit.. should be even with the bumperline thats right under it. in the back of those litle vent if you would just take the screws off from the wheel well push back as far you can the screw up into the bump in those vents youll never see the screws and you dont haev to have it be permenant. i have little to no gaps some are expect bt its very min.

 

[rednecks_r_us]

I thought about getting a lip once. But the shipping from the guy in Canada would have killed me. I'm glad I didn't. There seems to be a lot of problems with gap problems from what I've read about on this and other forums.

Good luck.

 

[p5sundevil]

honestly the only way to go with a lip is to have it professionally molded on, or you will never have a perfect fit, only way to attain a perfect fit is if the piece was a one of a kind made for your car with your car during the molding process. I know all our bumpers should theoretically be identical and therefor so should the lips, but I wouldnt hold my breath on it

 

[Heathen23]

I can't comment on the fitment because I don't own the part but I can comment on the poll I guess. It's an aftermarket lip which probably will never be perfect. Getting your money back seems unlikely considering the pricing of the product was quite low. I'd guess taking it to a professional shop for install (or molding)although contrary to most of our nature's is proabably the best route IMO if you want the perfect fit.

 

[digitalpro5]

I have the fiberglass lip (still being repaired by me from a certain mom that split it) and at first it fits like crap. I had to add bondo to certain areas to fill in the gap, and that got it close to not being so bad, but I still have fitment issues at the fog light area. When I press the center further up the fitment near the fogs becomes good but the sides come out. So really best thing to do is bondo the fog area alittle bit. Also I have two mp5 bumpers and each one fits the lip differently, so that has to be a variable also.

 

[ghetto waggon]

the bondo sounds good to me, I need to get my front end refinished anyway, the problem is, I just don't have any experience with bondo

If I were to pay a body shop to have it "molded on", is bondo what they'd be using?

 

[digitalpro5]

I got a can of Bondo Fiberglass resin something something. Its green instead of the regular pink Bondo filler. I've used it great many times now on the lip and all you do apply enough of what you need and sand the rest of it off. When I first started using it looked like it wouldn't hold to what I wanted to do, and I was afraid that it would crack or simply fall off. Once its sanded level to the rest of the lip it really looked like a solid piece and it is. I've actually gone and hammered it (not to hard but enough to hit it to simulate a good size rock hit) and it withstood the shock. I would recommend to spread it out further out from the area being worked on so that there is some reinforcement.

I do have one area near the fog light that cracks easily (due to the lip being stretched to install onto the bumper), so I have to figure out how to keep it from cracking using the bondo and using more bondo to reinforce that area to keep it from stretching.

Also if you have a urethane lip, I have no idea if bondo will work for that. My lip is fiberglass and bondo works good. I've bondo'd my mp5 bumper due to a dent and it works ok, but that area is really hard but the rest of the bumper is stretchable (so far no cracks in the bondo'd area of the bumper). I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I think I've done a good job of repairs.

 

[dominoy2k1]

eh dont use bondo, use a smc repair kit for fiberglass or fiberglass resin. as for the urethane lips id use a urethane adhesive. get some aluminum tape lay it on and fill the area you need with the adhesive. then just sand down to your needs. thats what i would do.

http://www.bondo-online.com/catalog_item.asp?itemNbr=371
http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/en001/auto_marine_aero/automotive_aftermarket/node_GSRBDQRS68be/root_GST1T4S9TCgv/vroot_GSLPLPKL4Xge/gvel_6DTWTJQPBBgl/theme_us_aad_3_0/command_AbcPageHandler/output_html
http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/...us_aad_3_0/command_AbcPageHandler/output_html

 

[digitalpro5]

Just looked at that can again (had it for a year looked at it once). Its Bondo Fiberglass Resin Jelly (green stuff).

 

[ghetto waggon]

eli i just got my replacement lip in last night

needless to say it was folded twice more to compact it into the approximate size of a big basketball, with folds in all the wrong places that didnt seem to want to come out.

my team worked for about 30 mins trying to get it to hold down with various double sided tapes and what not, nothing held, as usual. The angle of the bumper simply does not match the DG design (cough, poor design)

then finally the solution arrived with 6 scres and 2 "body clips" as I think he called them. My lip now fits tight as s*** and we tried throwing the soccer ball at my front bumper to knock it off and it just doesnt come off.

Its raining like crazy here but I will take pics for you as soon as I can.

PS, this lip fit WAYYYYYY worse than yours does.

PPS DG your design is crap