Well guys:

This is just an update on my car and the progress for those interested - nothing about the pending case. There is one important thing I need you guys to read atleast about how the kit was designed. Go the BOLD section.

My car is near the finishing stages. Honestly Chris did a really sh!tty job on the body work and there was tape under the areas where he primered or did fiberglass and bondo work! The body lines were wavy and a lot of attention was NOT paid to detail. He used really crappy primer and didn't prep the car good for paint. The doors were not straight and quarter panels were molded wrong and uneven.

Whew...i'm glad it left that shop for those reasons alone. I can't believe Chris' dumba$$ thought he could finish my car in just 4 days from the day I discovered he was lying to me. What a loser.

The new shop gets all the credit - the remolded pretty much everything and fixed all the cracks and wavy lines in the body. Evened out the widebody and body panels. The fixed all the overspray (there was a lot of it). Unfortunatley it's costing me a$$ loads but it's worth it - the car looks beautiful. I really thought Chris did good work - I honestly did - but after seeing what the body work looks like now - Chris did a really bad job.

PROBLEM! The back bumper has a crucial flaw. It's not a real bumper - just a bumper cover. The difference? Our cars are made with the bumper support as part of the bumper cover itself. For anybody who has taken off their rear bumper you know what i'm talking about. That bar that runs along the inside back of the stock bumper is our bumper which is bolted to the frame when the bumper is attatced.

Most cars have this seperate. The bumpers for our car were not designed with this in mind - instead what Chris did was make up a bracket - a poorly designed one at that - to hold the back bumper in place. If SVT ST PETE could take some pix of the rear I think it would help (sorry for calling you out but I don't have pix of that bumper). So basically you have no support in the rear. There are no install brackets either - you basically have to drill into your body.

How my shop fixed it - I had to buy another back bumper and they remolded the aftermarket rear to the stock rear to work with it. I don't think Andy's has addressed this - if they did the cost of the rear bumper should be higher. I wasn't really aware of it initially since I didn't know a lot about this kind of stuff and basically took Chris' word that it was okay - I'm not the biggest car guy. My shop did not want my car leaving that shop unless the bumper was in fact a real bumper.

I hope I explained that correctly - basically there is no support under the bumper - nothing to absorb impact in the way an actual bumper would.


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