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Hey guys I recently saw a beautiful TL with what looks like a 4th gen front bumper swap. I was just wondering if anybody has done this and if so what kind of fitment issues and what not they ran into. I tried doing a search but couldnt find anything, if there is already a thread on this a link is fine if not then I guess here is a cool new mod people can try.
I saw this recently on IG, I follow the guy. He did some clean work. He molded the lower portion of a 2012 bumper with the upper portion of a 3g TL bumper, used bondo, etc to get it smooth, then added all the 4g lower grill bits and underspoiler on either side. Its doable. The only issues I could see were how to attach the bumper on the bottom since our 3Gs have bolts and clips underneath. But I suppose that could be figured out.
quoted from my progress thread below:
Originally Posted by quanaman
I saw this on IG and was thinking of getting it done on my car. Top part of bumper is obviously stock, but this guy molded the lower foglight portion of a 4g 2012 TL bumper to his OEM one and installed 4G foglights and oem front lip onto it. I think it looks awesome and wanted to do something similar originally. But with the amount of parts I'd have to buy including the foglights, aspec, sourcing a used OEM 2012 bumper, etc etc I realized it would just be too much right now.
Here is what it looked like. The car has also been plastidipped blue AFAIK. The guy really did some amazing work I think.
