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  1. Many of you have heard the story.

    It all began with a simple correction but when Ian came to drop off his car, this happened to him:

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    It was a hit and run and the damage was devastating.

    Fortunately, Ian was safe and prior to arrangements with us, he had a car we could lend him to drive home in and to use through out the durations of the repairs.

     

    Though the damage was substantial, the car was repairable and suffered only exterior superficial damage.

    What was required was to transplant a new rear quarter panel, transplant a new door and repair the nismo skirts.

     

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  2. It would had been easier if it wasn't so badly chipped away. Whilst it was rounded, you had more options to get it out.

    At this point you only have 2 options.

    Remove the hub then clamp it down and drill out the entire stud.

    Remove the hub, grind away the backing of the stud and press/hammer out the stud.

    The second is the easier option. Either way you will need to change the stud.

  3. Ive just taken it down to a local garage. We tried everything until eventually we decided the spacer had to be sacrificed. Hes going to cut it off. I've been told to head back around 4.....Slightly nervous as my rotors arent cheap. We shall see!

     

    Seriously? Why not sacrifice a single stud instead of an entire spacer?

  4. It would had been easier if it wasn't so badly chipped away. Whilst it was rounded, you had more options to get it out.

    At this point you only have 2 options.

    Remove the hub then clamp it down and drill out the entire stud.

    Remove the hub, grind away the backing of the stud and press/hammer out the stud.

    The second is the easier option. Either way you will need to change the stud.

  5. The visible exposure of the original colour is more visible on pre-facelift then the facelift.

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    Unfortunately this is how the original product was hence the replication was exactly the same.

    To amend that would mean adding to the cost and our aim was to sell what was out there at a lower price.

    After trying 3 front lips we chose the one with the best fit to the bumper to replicate.

     

    The most common way for people to overcome this was to paint or change the colour of the lip to black as stated above.

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