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Aftermarket Bumper Quality.


AJK1976

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I recently purchased a stainless bumper set from the big supplier here in the US and when it arrived I was unimpressed.  The insides of the parts have a thick coating of black paint/ filler  that is very lumpy. They seem like China quality, and I'm not comfortable putting these on a customers car. BMW 2002 Bumpers website has no contact info so I cant call to talk to a human and ask questions. Aardvark only seems to do stock restoration and I would like to get the short style bumpers.  I'm hoping that some has recently purchased a bumper set and could give some feed back.

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I have stainless steel bumpers purchased through Blunttech which actually come from 02bumpers.com

 

Quality was very nice.

 

Is the outside nice? Some sort of paint on the inside doesnt seem like that big of a deal...

 

 

1976 BMW 2002 Chamonix. My first love.

1972 BMW 2002tii Polaris. My new side piece.

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OEM bumpers as fitted by the factory were painted on the inner sides--some were light grey, others, silver.  Sometimes the pieces wouldn't even match on the same car--e.g. grey center section and silver ends or...pick your combination.  Bumper guard insides always seemed to be silver, though.

 

So, the paint on the inside of the repro bumpers isn't that far from what the factory did.  Never did figure out how they managed to plate the outside of the bumper but not the inside...there's no chrome under that paint.

 

mike

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The '02 Bumpers' are a little different in shape from OEM.  They run longer on the bottom so OEM seam caps do not work.  I have a set of long bumpers and the issue I could not resolve was the placement of the attachment holes for the impact strip clips which we set too high.  BTW, these are made subcontract in Viet Nam.  

 

I have recently sent a set of OEM to Aardvarc for re-conditioning and holes for Euro License plate lights.

 

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11 hours ago, Mike Self said:

OEM bumpers as fitted by the factory were painted on the inner sides--some were light grey, others, silver.  Sometimes the pieces wouldn't even match on the same car--e.g. grey center section and silver ends or...pick your combination.  Bumper guard insides always seemed to be silver, though.

 

So, the paint on the inside of the repro bumpers isn't that far from what the factory did.  Never did figure out how they managed to plate the outside of the bumper but not the inside...there's no chrome under that paint.

 

mike


Thank you, especially, for this, Mike! I thought I was crazy, in the ‘70’s, seeing different back-paint colors on what appeared to be an original bumper.

 

Best regards,

 

Steve

 

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19 minutes ago, Conserv said:


Thank you, especially, for this, Mike! I thought I was crazy, in the ‘70’s, seeing different back-paint colors on what appeared to be an original bumper.

 

Best regards,

 

Steve

 

 

 

We were all crazy in the 70's, Steve!

 

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