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Old Jun 19, 2017 | 01:17 PM
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When I purchased my GS 450 H it was in great shape however it had a bunch of road rash and rock chips on the front end, I added up replacing the front and bumper cover and repainting it… It looks absolutely new.
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Old Jun 20, 2017 | 12:35 PM
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Beautiful ride MSAGRO! Love the color of your car. It looks like it had some nice options/packages too.

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Nice GS... same color as my wife's! Just wondering, why you did not get Fsport bumper if you had to buy a new one anyway?
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That's a great question shurik. I thought about replacing it with the F sport bumper, but I would be losing the fog lights. I know that there is a JDM set that I could buy but they're expensive, I just wanted to upgrade the front end so that it looked new.
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It looks good either way. I'm a purist so I'm down with keeping it original. Now the Fsport bumper is a nice upgrade if you chose to do it but yeah, you'd lose the fogs.either way, it's a nice ride and you did right by replacing those panels.
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It looks good either way. I'm a purist so I'm down with keeping it original. Now the Fsport bumper is a nice upgrade if you chose to do it but yeah, you'd lose the fogs.either way, it's a nice ride and you did right by replacing those panels.
Wrong... you wont lose fog lights at all, all what you need is to get fog lights inserts / bezels that you can find online. Fsport bumper already have ****/tabs ready for fog light install. I converted my wife's w/out any issues.

The only questions, if you want to keep base or Fsport grille (upper & bottom). Some people stay with base though, looks good as well...

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Shurik, I was thought that your front end looks great. I actually talk to the guy that put on the new bumper about the F sport but with the bumper F sport grill(s) and the fog lights… It was twice what I budgeted.
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Shurik, I was thought that your front end looks great. I actually talk to the guy that put on the new bumper about the F sport but with the bumper F sport grill(s) and the fog lights… It was twice what I budgeted.
I agree... If you buy complete grille it's way too much from a dealership...
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Originally Posted by shurik74
Wrong... you wont lose fog lights at all, all what you need is to get fog lights inserts / bezels that you can find online. Fsport bumper already have ****/tabs ready for fog light install. I converted my wife's w/out any issues.

The only questions, if you want to keep base or Fsport grille (upper & bottom). Some people stay with base though, looks good as well...

Well pardon the ever loving **** out of me.

Thanks for clearing that up Richard.
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