Acura3.0CL

Ok...WingsWest makes their bumper lips out of Urethane...but they charge out the A$$ for their lips.

Does anyone know, or have any experience w/ ASB Plastic lips? Basically, Im looking at a rear lip thats ABS plastic...not Urethane. Does anyone know about ABS Plastic? Ive heard its flexable and strong...Do you think it'd fit on the bumper?? What about painting ABS plastic?

Basically im just totaly confused, dont know anything about it...should I stay away from it? (im just thinkin a rear Urethane lip isnt that nessary because the lips on the rear..not the front where more things could hit it.

Can anyone help??

Thanks! -CJ

97BlackAckCL

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My dad has been in the plastics business for 30 years, and has sold ABS plastic to sony, every computer company, and every major car company. Our entire interior is made of ABS plastic. It is strong, and has advantages to urethane, though I believe urethane is stronger, but costs more, because it takes more oil and shit to make. ABS for the rear should be fine, as long as you don't back into a curb going like 20-30 miles an hour.

What rear lip you lookin at pimpin?

Acura3.0CL

Thanks for the info. The rear lip is the same as the WW W-type. My only concern is that Urethane is flexable...this plastic may not be so flexable...meaning it might not fit the bumper at all. Just because the WW W-type lips have to be "custom fit" but their urethane so they flex to the bumpers shape...this ABS plastic lip may not be as flexable and therefor, not bend to curve/fit the bumper....

crraappp..i donno what to do

CL Platano

fiberglass

Acura3.0CL

um no..the lip is made of ABS plastic...not fiberglass...but thanks....I need to know about ABS plastic

klepto

whatever the material, you'll have to cut out a section from the middle and somehow bond it back together

fiberglass will crack.

mclarenf3387

ABS plastic is the same stuff the bumpers are made out of.

ayougo

ABS is very brital. I would recommend a urethane or a composite material like the lower bumper peice thats black

legendaryCL98

at first i was like.. anti-lock braking system plastic?

lol

97BlackAckCL

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anti-lock brake plastic

Acura3.0CL

Soo everyone w/ the WW rear lips had to cut them in 1/2 and bondo them back together?? This is the exact same as the WW lip...just diff. material

$peed])emon

i dont think that bondo can hold the 2 pieces together...isn't it just a filler?

Acura3.0CL

Ok everyone stop.....what your telling me is EVERYONE that has the rear lips, they ALL had to cut them in 1/2 and bond them back together to fit?? This lip is the same as the WW one...just dif. material. I guess i didnt realise that everyone with a rear lip had to cut theirs in 1/2.....

recycledpaper

^ nippon_way did NOT cut it in half

Acura3.0CL

Exactly...i know plenty of members who didnt cut their lips. They said it fit on fine with a little adjustment....the reason Im asking who cut their lips is because I know some members didnt and Klepto said this:

Which is confusing the crap outta me because I thought you didnt have to cut the rear lip to make it fit...

Basically All i need to know is.....the WW Lips are Urethane...they fit on our bumper fine w/o cutting. Urethane is a little more flexable than ABS-Plastic...so Im wondering if the ABS-Plastic lip would fit fine like the urethane WW one...??

this is the lip....looks just like the WW one...just made from dif. material. So do you guys think it woudnt fit because its not urethane??

starboy2nv

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ok... IF you have to cut it, fiberglass is the best and ONLY way to do it. Otherwise as justin said, it will crack.

Plastic = flexiable = crack
fiberglass = hard = good shit lol

Acura3.0CL

Ok......Since when do you have to cut the rear lips?! Ok..if you dont have to cut the urethane WW ones....is there any reason why you could have to cut the ABS plastic one? Basically im wondering/asking anyone whos installed a WW rear lip....how much did it not fit and what had to be done to fit it?? if its as simple as sliding the lip up or down a little on the bumper, there im pretty sure the ABS plastic one will fit also.

Im just trying to figure out if i should buy it and try it out. Its the exact same style of lip as the WW, and made for the same car...just dif. material. So what would be soooo different from the 2 that would make the ABS one not work?? Basically, if the WW urethane one can fit w/o cutting....why would the ABS plastic one be any different?? Does the rear lip have to bend in some crazy angle that no ones telling me?? therefor meaning the plastic woudnt bend like the urethane??

Basically, i dont understand why the 2 would be soo different, that one of fit and one prob woudnt fit...same lip, same car...just dif. material...

97BlackAckCL

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First off calm down dude, geez, you freak out about the littlest shit.

Second I thought that the ww ones had to be cut and shortened too

Acura3.0CL

im not freakin out...im calm..lol...i never was freakin out...i just cant seem to get a consistant anwser. Some say the lips have to be cut 1/2..other dont. I thought they didnt...im just an totaly confused now...