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Old 02-21-2012, 07:44 AM
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Default Re: Rear Bumper Fillers for 87 T- Any recommendations?

Why are you discounting fiberglass?

There are no more "soft like OEM" fillers around. And if you can find an OEM set they're going to cost you big time, something like $500 just for a rear set. NOS4GN (highwaystars) still has a few OEM front available but they wont last long.

There are basically two choices available these days. They are ABS Plastic, or Fiberglass. Both similar, but all the feedback that I've heard over the last few years indicates that the Fiberglass units have a better "fit" that the plastic units. Most vendors carry the plastic one's, and GBODYPARTS carries both. But they are generally built to fill orders as they come in, so the wait might be upwards of two weeks.

Regardles of which you buy, they have to have some "massaging" done to the mounting holes to get a good fit.

Personally I'm going with fiberglass for the better fit. My car is at the painter now, and I had a complete set of fiberglass fillers drop shipped to him so he can mount them and paint them with the car work. He's a GN specialist and is even going to "glass" the two rears together to get rid of that unsightly seem in the center.
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