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Ford NU (AU) Fairlane front bumper fog lights experiment (Part 1.2)

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 Setting up the bumper                                    Next up the fog mould portions are plastic welded into the bumper:   Next Page  

Ford NU (AU) Fairlane front bumper fog lights experiment (Part 1.1)

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          In this section I cut out the bumper section to see if the Carmys fog section fits. After a bit of cutting of the Carmy section I managed to get both the bits to line up fairly well  So after some tab locking, plastic welding, bogging and painting this should look pretty smooth. Next week I should have my old bumper off to play with and I'll post more shots of my progress, until then please support my project by buying lost of stuff from Geekbuying such as a Dutch looking bicycle .

Ford NU (AU) Fairlane front bumper fog lights experiment (Intro)

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 Introduction: I have this bit of a front bumper left over from a recent NU Fairlane bumper repair job.   After seeing how every newer car has the foggies on each edge of the lower scoop section of their front bumper I have decided to have a crack at doing the same on this very ugly looking bumper, hopefully the foggies might give it some more appeal.                             Here is a stock photo of the front of this beast without any foggies:-  So using a discarded section of the right hand scoop edge I will try to weld in some fog light inserts cut out of a Toyato Carmy bumper, and use some aftermarket LED fog light sets suitable for most Toyato's.  After measuring the Carmy bumper fog insert section It should fit in pretty well into the lower scoop section. On the next page I show the cut out of the bumper and how it all ...