Body Kit Installation

If you are planning on purchasing a body kit for your car, you need to consider how you plan to have it installed. Can you do it yourself, do you have the skills and tools necessary to complete a quality install? You need to ask yourself all these questions if you plan to do it yourself. Haven’t you seen those cars on the road with a poorly installed body kit, even worse is that car with a body kit that was installed poorly and never painted?

Most body kits these days come with most of the prep work already done for you, such as the primer. Most also will come with an installation guide or kit and all the hardware necessary. The challenge comes in when you have so slightly modify your body kit to get the best fitment. You might just need to test fit your new bumpers after you have removed the factory bumpers to see if you need to shave or sand a small amount down to get a good fit. If your body kit did not come with new hardware, then save the old hardware from your factory bumpers to reuse on your new body kit.

Make sure that you have thoroughly cleaned any surface with a degreaser or something to ensure good adhesion when you apply the two way stick tape. After you have cleaned the surface, use an adhesion promoter to get the best possible adhesion. Use the holes drilled in your existing factory bumpers and match them up to your new bumpers for proper line up. Test fit again with drilled holes and make any other adjustment needed by sanding or grinding.

After removing your side skirts, test fit your new side skirts and determine if you need to make any modifications. Clean the surfaces that will be adhered to with the two way stick tape. If you need to drill holes do that now. If you are unable to line up your new holes in the side skirts to your cars body, you will need to drill those too. Apply your side skirts with the two way stick tape and screw them on. Do not over tighten screws.

If you paint your body kit before you install it you must be very careful in the installation process. Especially if you have to make any modifications. It would be a good idea to dry fit your body kit then remove it and the paint it. If you plan to have the whole car repainted then you could install the kit and the bring it in for paint.

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