All right I'm going to bump this from the grave because I actually used a couple of threads with this one included to guide me on a blindfolded euro bumper install.
I start from scratch and didnt really have any prior knowledge of how euro bumpers are or what they look like with the brackets and what not and searching really brought me not a whole. This thread however, always came up when I would do a search for euro bumper related topics. I just want to add some information that I did not find that would have taken a lot of guessing out of the situation for me and hopefully others.
Rear install:
Pretty straight forward with a few exceptions. The biggest deal is where to drill the holes at for the bumpers. If you use the stock holes from the old shocks, they dont line up and if it comes close, the bumper will be sagging way down away from where the body lines tell you it needs to be. Take out the carpet in your trunk, look down by the trunks floor pans and near the tail lights. You'll see what looks like a reinforcement tab with 2 dimples in it. It will be epoxied over by the factory. Figure out which hole you'll need with the brackets in hand, and drill through that dimple. I promise you, it will come out perfectly so that you are using 1 end on the existing bumper shock hole and the one that you drilled. Thats where they made the difference between the euro chassis and American versions. Put the largest diameter bolt end on the bracket into the existing hole for the American bumper shock, and the other smaller diameter bolt on the bracket into the hole you drilled. You'll angle the bracket upright and a little to the side.
Another trick I noticed, is to keep the nut loose that bolts the bracket to the bumpers. This is so you can adjust it how you need to when aligning the bumper. You can slide a socket and ratchet in just fine even with the bumpers mounted. Everything else bolts up in the original American holes on the sides.
Front install:
Very simple, very straight forward. Lines up just like a normal bumper would minus shocks. Bolts in all places that the DB setup you took off would go in. The only hint I have is to do the middle euro plate trim section last and DO NOT TIGHTEN THE SCREWS DONT TOO MUCH ON THE TURN SIGNAL HOUSINGS. :)
Hope that helps for those interested in this topic and can use the search function.
Thank you come again..
I start from scratch and didnt really have any prior knowledge of how euro bumpers are or what they look like with the brackets and what not and searching really brought me not a whole. This thread however, always came up when I would do a search for euro bumper related topics. I just want to add some information that I did not find that would have taken a lot of guessing out of the situation for me and hopefully others.
Rear install:
Pretty straight forward with a few exceptions. The biggest deal is where to drill the holes at for the bumpers. If you use the stock holes from the old shocks, they dont line up and if it comes close, the bumper will be sagging way down away from where the body lines tell you it needs to be. Take out the carpet in your trunk, look down by the trunks floor pans and near the tail lights. You'll see what looks like a reinforcement tab with 2 dimples in it. It will be epoxied over by the factory. Figure out which hole you'll need with the brackets in hand, and drill through that dimple. I promise you, it will come out perfectly so that you are using 1 end on the existing bumper shock hole and the one that you drilled. Thats where they made the difference between the euro chassis and American versions. Put the largest diameter bolt end on the bracket into the existing hole for the American bumper shock, and the other smaller diameter bolt on the bracket into the hole you drilled. You'll angle the bracket upright and a little to the side.
Another trick I noticed, is to keep the nut loose that bolts the bracket to the bumpers. This is so you can adjust it how you need to when aligning the bumper. You can slide a socket and ratchet in just fine even with the bumpers mounted. Everything else bolts up in the original American holes on the sides.
Front install:
Very simple, very straight forward. Lines up just like a normal bumper would minus shocks. Bolts in all places that the DB setup you took off would go in. The only hint I have is to do the middle euro plate trim section last and DO NOT TIGHTEN THE SCREWS DONT TOO MUCH ON THE TURN SIGNAL HOUSINGS. :)
Hope that helps for those interested in this topic and can use the search function.
Thank you come again..
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