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Old Jan 21, 2004 | 09:34 PM
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front bumper.

Someone hit the front of my car! not bad but about 550 doller worth of damage. So that added to the already nasty looking bumper which has little chips in the paint from bugs and shit. So my question is when I get it redone and pretty again. how do I protect my front bumper and bumper body it. Clear bra? where do I buy a clear bra?
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P.S I know that the clear bra will not protect me from people that hit me lol! I just want protection from road rocks and bugs.Oh and I have a Blk CL-S
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Old Jan 22, 2004 | 06:22 AM
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ClearBra or Xpel (the same thing) will do it, It has protected me from all the flying crap on the road.

http://www.xpel.com/products/zipsearch.asp
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Old Jan 23, 2004 | 10:53 PM
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I've used 3M and it does a very good job of preventing nicks/chips. Here's the website for 3M: http://cms.3m.com/cms/US/en/2-168/czrRFFU/view.jhtml
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Old Jan 24, 2004 | 06:40 AM
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Did you do it yourself? Because the website is saying that you should get it proffessionaly applicated.
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Old Jan 24, 2004 | 12:06 PM
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Get it proffessionaly installed. It is too hard to get it perfect yourself.
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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 03:05 AM
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Did you do it yourself? Because the website is saying that you should get it proffessionaly applicated.
No. I wouldn't be able to do it. I had it done by an installer. I had it on the CL-S and it did a pretty good job. A friend of mine who has the 3M, mistakenly closed his garage door on the rear bumper of his IS300 and it only made a few scratches. The 3M did a good job of keeping the paint intact.
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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 09:27 AM
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??? he has the clear bra on the rear bumper too ??
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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 01:18 PM
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??? he has the clear bra on the rear bumper too ??
He has it on both the front and rear. Its to prevent nicks/scratches. Parallel parkers in NYC are not bumper friendly.

If you have a widebody car, you should also get the 3M in front of the rear wheel well. My friend has a Z3 and the rear wheel well sticks out. He had a lot of chips from road debris. He had it touched up and the 3M applied.

You can also get it done on motorcycles as well to protect the front.
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