Interior/Exterior AHHHH help.
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AHHHH help.
i bought the black grill kit from outmotoring.com....to find out they decided not to tell me that i had to mod the bumper to get them to fit. can anyone help or am i just sending them back?
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This is the grill kit that is part of the Aero Body kit which is an option on the Gen 1 MINI's. It is by far the most popular grill kit we offer and for a good reason. They look great. The kit is two parts, an upper grill (bonnet) and a lower grill (lip of the bumper) but it is available separately for those who don't want to mess with the install of the lower grill. The upper one is a dead simple bolt on replacement that may take 5-10 minutes but the lower requires modification to the grill, which all said and done is about a 1.5 hour job) so it fits the stock Cooper or Cooper S bumper. The lower grill was designed to fit the Aero Front bumper which has completely different gemoetry where the grill insets into the bumper but it can be modified to fit. Why MINI chose to make it so different between the two bumpers is beyond me but that is how it is.
Here are the instructions:
http://www.motoringfile.com/howto/MI...ll_install.pdf
Last edited by Guest; May 9, 2008 at 01:10 PM.
this is normal... the bottom grill will need some trimming since its not the Aero bumper... well Rustyboy has the rest of the story!
but yeah it all depends on if you want to do the work. I think its work it!
but yeah it all depends on if you want to do the work. I think its work it!
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