GDJT Allroad^2

I was "lucky" enough to have my ride come to me with an OEM RS4 bumper.

The problem is that the RS4 bumper sticks out more at the sides, wanting to be attached to the fender flares of the RS4. My B5 S4 does not have these fender flares. Whoever installed this bumper did a kind of half-assed lining up of the piece and forced the "wings" of the RS4 bumper to be screwed to the fender. This makes the RS4 bumper install look like a total hack job (now that I've had time to "appreciate" it) and actually messes up the lines of the bumper causing it to bend in ways it wasn't meant to bend.

So to those with aftermarket bumpers, how did you avoid this? How can I make what I got look better? Should I just go snag a stock S4 front bumper?

Angular

... it's a lot of work to have it done right. A shop local to me said it was around $800-$900 of additional labor. But shop around and hopefully find someone that has done it before with proven results.

GDJT Allroad^2

Yeah... ugh. It's almost at the point where if you look at the car dead-on you can see it isn't even

lemieux@curbside

the ones holding the bumper in, attached to the inner fender. if you move these toward the inside of it will pull the side ends of the fender in. i would push in each side , align the bumper to the fender an drill the holes in the inner fender and attach them with good screws and washers..you can use a heat gun also so it's not so stiff (be careful not burn it) attach it and when it will cool down will stay in the right place , you cane even lean something heavy against the sides so they stay in untill it cools down.
my 2 cents

spartanS4

Is it bad where the fender and bumper meet up or that it buldges out from the sides?

GDJT Allroad^2

I'll have to post pictures later.

spartanS4

Do what lemieux recommends, heat it up and find a way to push it in towards the car and hold it there until the bumper cools. Just be carful as too much push will make the bottom of the bumper buldge down and create the wave affect you sometimes see on the bottom of these bumpers. I just installed mine myself, let me know if you have any specific questions.

lemieux@curbside

find a sheet of flexible plastic and cut couple pieces to reinforce the inner fender in that area so the new screws don't rip it.. the heat and holding the bumper in the right place untill cools down is the key i think , you can also cut a bit from the bottom where it bends (one cut accross so one side goes over another when bending )so it does it with less effort and does not buldge..

FASTAXI

Buy the RS4 fenders....

Angular

Careful. That's a REALLY slippery slope! Look what happened to me. :O