Name that Bumper

[porsche986spyder]

Mine is fiberglass and I bought it of of a Prsche aftermarket web site. It is the GT-2, I paid about $900. I added an extra set of fog lights and used black mesh instead of silver. Here is the web site. http://www.precisionporsche.com/boxkit.html

[vijen6]

I have been looking at a few of these auctions on ebay. Seems they make several knock off styles for the boxster.

How is the fitment?

Any issues installing?

How would u rate the quality from 1-10?

$900 is STEEP for a fiberglass front bumper. Thats almost carbon / carbon price.

[Perfectlap]

yes very steep, that's why I went with the factory GT3 bumper from DPS Motorsport. I wouldn't spend more than $500 on any one fiberglass due to its fragility.

[porsche986spyder]

Originally Posted by vijen6

I have been looking at a few of these auctions on ebay. Seems they make several knock off styles for the boxster.

How is the fitment?

Any issues installing?

How would u rate the quality from 1-10?

$900 is STEEP for a fiberglass front bumper. Thats almost carbon / carbon price.

Fitment is great!

No problems installing

I would say 10 out of 10! I love it.

I don't think $900.00 is steep for a Porsche GT-2 copy. Some of the other bumpers are cheaper because of the type of front end that they are copied from, (i.e. turbo, or type "s" front end). Polyurethane is the way to go. I'm not a big fan of the Fiberglass, but I have had no problems with it so far. And it's been on my car for 8 months now.

[vijen6]

Originally Posted by porsche986spyder

Fitment is great! I would say 10 out of 10! I love it.

Glad to hear re: the fitment. Your car looks great!!

Below is a bit of a rant, so feel free to skip it.

In regard to the 'steepness' of the price:

From purely a production standpoint, a bumper is a bumper. Sure, it cost more to buy a GT2 bumper from Porsche to make the mold. However, once you have the mold produced, the cost to reproduce is about the same.

Assuming this is chop mat sprayed on fiberglass (the type used to make 99% of bodykits on ebay), it would cost roughly the same to make as a honda civic front bumper

On top of that, the mold is most likely cheaper as they pull 100s of copies off the civic mold, so it would need to be much stronger (more $$).

Thats is the only reason I said these bumper were extremely steep in price when compared with production cost. These guys can charge whatever they wants since I guess they 'cornered' the market in boxster bumpers.

If there was more competition (more ppl making ans elling boxster stuff), these bumpers would be selling for $200-$300 like every other fiberglass bumper on ebay.

[TriGem2k]

Originally Posted by porsche986spyder

Fitment is great!

No problems installing

I would say 10 out of 10! I love it.

I don't think $900.00 is steep for a Porsche GT-2 copy. Some of the other bumpers are cheaper because of the type of front end that they are copied from, (i.e. turbo, or type "s" front end). Polyurethane is the way to go. I'm not a big fan of the Fiberglass, but I have had no problems with it so far. And it's been on my car for 8 months now.

Just by looking at the picture below I can already see gap differences on your bumper.

I know Tony from Precision Porsche, ALMOST bought some stuff from him. His fiberglass work is good but not great. I have yet to see 10 out of 10 from anything he has copied.

Also pictures are never a great show of fitment and if you can tell fitment problems from a picture then its probably much worse in person.

Just my $.02

[jsmithdmd]

While we're on the topic of bumpers, Does anyone know where I can get some of those mesh grill covers? They look pretty sweet and seem useful too. I took my P-car apart last weekend to get to the radiator and I found all kinds of stuff stuck up in there!