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Old Feb 7, 2021 | 12:56 PM
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Bumper swap questions

My car was recently hit bad enough to necessitate some moderate body repair, including the rear bumper cover needing to be pulled and according to body shop either repaired or replaced.

I have a non-Sport trim coupe, so it has the bumpers that I don't really like. That got me to thinking that I could take this opportunity to have the bumpers and side skirts upgraded. If I get new OEM parts, they'll all need to be re-painted because my car, NAH, never had these parts available for this color code.

I have searched around and settled on:
IPL side skirts (OEM)
"Aero Kit" rear bumper (OEM)
"Sport" front bumper (OEM)

Big question, as I know the body shop will balk if there's too much hassle for them: if I have the bumper covers, front and rear swapped, are there any parts under the bumper covers that need to change also? Such as impact beam, clips, foam absorber? Or, are the covers straight-up exchangeable?
How about side skirts? Are those a direct swap?

This body shop has agreed to do this kind of work for me before, when my Titan was wrecked they worked with me to replace all of the SE parts to Pro-4x parts since there wasn't any under-the-skin differences. I really hope that's the same case for my coupe!

Here's a pic of my car pre-accident, I believe since it has OEM fogs it already has the "slim washer bottle" (is that right?):


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Old Feb 7, 2021 | 09:30 PM
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What year is Yours car ? I have 2011 and was directly swap.
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Old Feb 7, 2021 | 09:56 PM
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2014. Your direct swap, was that the rear or front, or both?
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Old Feb 7, 2021 | 09:58 PM
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Front , rear and sides.
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Old Feb 7, 2021 | 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by slawek65
Front , rear and sides.


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Old Feb 8, 2021 | 12:20 AM
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like those headlights in here
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Old Feb 8, 2021 | 02:20 AM
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It's a direct swap. And since your car has foglights, you dont need to get the smaller windshield washer tank.
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Old Feb 8, 2021 | 07:22 PM
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to boot your confidence, front and rear bumper and sideskirts are direct swap.
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Old Feb 8, 2021 | 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by spoolin03
like those headlights in here
Alpharex. Full LED
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