I've been looking and found some decent bumpers that I actually like, they're made by AIT and they're called "c-west". I found them on sportcompactonly.com.

They are fiberglass, however, which I heard is more difficult to get to fit correctly.

Is it really that big of a deal? I plan on fitting and painting it myself (I've got the necessary equipment), but I've never done a fiberglass bumper before.

I know most of you guys don't like body kits, but this one is extremely mild and my bumpers are kinda trashed and it's cheaper just to get these.

 

it can be a big deal, you should talk to people that orderd kits from there and ask how the quality was, sometimes a fiberglass kit can fit with just little or no adjustment at all if its from a good company, when i worked at the performance shop i put a fiberglass kit on a neon and it went on like a glove, but then i put another kit on a teggy and it took like 5 hours with me and another guy doing it because we had to keep putting it on, see were it wasent fitting right, mark it, cut a little, put it back on..and do that over and over till it fit perfect, and you need to do a little at a time because you dont want to cut to much, also the front bumper that went on the teg had big a big gap around the headlights...the perfessional worked on that and made it pretty much unnoticeable, also, i put a kit on a escort and the side skirts were worped which looked like crap,(thats what happens when they make the kits and pile them up before they dry) but we managed to make it look decent still...so its all about the company quality, you can get somthing that fits nice (which is less then more) or somthing that you need to spend alot of time on to make it fit.... BTW cutting fiberglass SUCKS!!

 

Ok so it's more or less just trimming or adding? That's simple, I've done that a lot when working on boats. I was wondering if maybe they would come out of square or something and have to bend them around to make them line up...

Luckily I've got oem side skirts so I won't have to worry about that.

The fiberglass may be a pain but I'm cheap and my stock bumpers look like crap because the previous owner played demo-derby or was busting snow drifts with it... gouges and **** all over the place.

 

 

I bought my AIT kit from SportCompactOnly.com. I was really very pleased. The kit came gel-coated (which is the ugliest green ever) but with some minor prep work (sanding, trimming, drilling holes for mounting and such) it fits up rather nice.

 

that kit is pretty nice, i saw a civic with the same kit, had mesh in the back..it looked good

 

I like it because it's pretty simple and smooth... I don't like real flashy jagged body kits.

 

I like C-west kits, cant vouch for the vendor, but obviously the kits look good (aka look at my car, C-west 2)