straight bad ***!

 

Not to threadjack but lord where did you get your inserts for your grille and bumper.

 

ebay, i think they were around $60-70 for all of them, there are a lot of sellers on there so you have to shop around for the cheapest ones. grille is really easy to install, for the bumper you have to take the fogs off, cut out that gray piece install the billet, then reinstall the fogs, wont take more than an hour tops, i had to grind down small portions to get them to sit straight too.

 

I will be getting black bolts to hold mine on, I'm actually probably going to go to home depot not too long after I post this to find some.

I plan on getting inserts for both the grille and bumper, just haven't sat down and spend the time looking through whats out there that I'd like.

And Dsertdog, the only thing I haven't done yet is a black rear bumper but thats in the works too. Just can't make up my mind if I want a black oem bumper or go all out with a costume black bumper with diamond plating along the top. If I go for the costume bumper, I'll get together with a friend who has some experience in welding and the tools to do it and see what we can come up with. I have some idea's but thats all they are right now.

Oh yea just thought, you guys think a good epoxy would be good enough to hold the lower plastic piece to the bumper or should I just bolt it?

 

I tried epoxy and it didn't work. Maybe if you sand the bumper to bare steel and rough up the plastic good. You might have better luck epoxying the nubs back on.

 

the Pershing bumper and grill is also very tough to keep rust free....I give it three years maybe and that because I noticed the backside is already totally rusted from about 9 months use..and the chrome develops rust literally everytime it rains or gets wet!..oh well get what you pay for sometimes...I had the tabs break too but the plastic weld epoxy I bought held...the plastice still doesnt fit right but oh well..I did bolt it on along the very bottom where there was no tabs...

 

+1...bad a$$

should get a nomination for mod of the month

 

Ok, after taking a good look at the lower piece, before drilling into it to install bolts, I noticed the reason why the piece wasn't mating with the bumper like it should is because of the way they attached the clips to the lower piece. The way the white clips are installed onto these pieces is by sliding them onto two rods or posts that are made in the spots during the molding process. When they go to install the white clips, all they do is slide the clips onto the two posts, melt them a little and fold the posts over. Although it works great for holding the clips on, they still stick up far enough to prevent proper installation. I haven't finished yet because I have to remove the entire lower piece again but I'm going to pull it probably tomorrow, shave all the spots down, then reinstall and take fresh pic's