Fog light installing to aftermarket bumper

[HensKenshin]

Hey!

My lexus is 200 1999 bumper got wrecked up and I ordered new one from England. Carbon fiber TTE style aftermarket bumper and I have difficulties inserting my fog lights. I did paint job at my local painter who works with cars but he couldnt get the fog lights fitting, saying holes are just little bit too small. Do you guys have any advices how to insert them carefully so i wont harm thw bumper. BTW I need to order new fog lights due the fact my old ones got broke aswell.

I would be so grateful if I could get some advices for the fitting!

thank you so much!

 

Ollie

[Ben01]

If bumper shape is really wrong and no enough space to fit lamps, only solution I could imagine is cut out the back of lamps "pockets" in the bumper, and fit lamps "from behind" with some kind of brackets. But this is pure and simple wrong and insane if you have to play like this with (I presume) expensive bumper.

Other stupid thought - is any possibility your local painter put a lot of filler or thick layer of paints into "corners" or "behind edges" of lamps pockets? Maybe somebody design bumper on low tolerance and additional 1mm of filler+paint ruined fitting?

[HensKenshin]

 

On 7/11/2018 at 3:28 PM, Ben01 said:

If bumper shape is really wrong and no enough space to fit lamps, only solution I could imagine is cut out the back of lamps "pockets" in the bumper, and fit lamps "from behind" with some kind of brackets. But this is pure and simple wrong and insane if you have to play like this with (I presume) expensive bumper.

Other stupid thought - is any possibility your local painter put a lot of filler or thick layer of paints into "corners" or "behind edges" of lamps pockets? Maybe somebody design bumper on low tolerance and additional 1mm of filler+paint ruined fitting?

 

Hey!

Thanks a lot Ben for answering. Here is some pictures of the bumper. I don't think the painter did anything wrong. I think the bumper being aftermarket is hard to insert due the fact its aftermarket. It was indeed pricey and I don't get how its so hard to fit the lamps. 

I think the designer of the bumper did some wrong here. 

I got couple more questions. I tried to hot glue the mesh grill to the bumper but after one test drive it came out. I used lot of glue to get it working, but it seems it cant handle the wind etc. Any advices to get it to hold? What you think of these FOG LIGHT HOLE filler things. Those plastic filling pieces which you just put in the bumper to fill out the holes?

Thanks a lot Ben for your reply, Its been giving me such a hard time dealing with the bumper. 

-Ollie

 

 

[Ben01]

Never use hot glue for anything more important than temporary catch a piece of paper or plastic, or a cable, on your table or at workbench, not in the car or device. In my mind, the advertizing of hot glue as "glue" is pure fraud.

For this grille I would try to use any glue for windscreens, windows, ie glass-to-body glue, same way as for windows etc. Be aware this black poliurethane stuff is sticky to anything and VERY difficult to clean.

About lamp holes, yeah, if you could live without foglamps, probably the easy way is to find any inserts from any cheap car with similar shaped holes, a little cut and grind, some brackets, and it will be fine. Or slightly more difficult way, maybe try to fit some mesh, same as you have at other holes? I would be too lazy for this, it needs a lot of work to neat fit it without ugly edges, but...

[HensKenshin]

5 minutes ago, Ben01 said:

Never use hot glue for anything more important than temporary catch a piece of paper or plastic, or a cable, on your table or at workbench, not in the car or device. In my mind, the advertizing of hot glue as "glue" is pure fraud.

For this grille I would try to use any glue for windscreens, windows, ie glass-to-body glue, same way as for windows etc. Be aware this black poliurethane stuff is sticky to anything and VERY difficult to clean.

About lamp holes, yeah, if you could live without foglamps, probably the easy way is to find any inserts from any cheap car with similar shaped holes, a little cut and grind, some brackets, and it will be fine. Or slightly more difficult way, maybe try to fit some mesh, same as you have at other holes? I would be too lazy for this, it needs a lot of work to neat fit it without ugly edges, but...

Thanks a lot! I look into this and try out something. Thanks for the advices Ben it was golden! Have a great weekend and thanks again!

-Oliver