TruFlex front bumper cover.
Instructor
Joined: Aug 2020
Posts: 132
Likes: 391
From: Budapest, Hungary
Hi,
Sorry, I'm not replying exactly your question, but I have relevant experience with another product with my '73.
So I don't know TruFlex, but I have horrible experience with flex-fit:
https://www.ecklerscorvette.com/1973...-107423-1.html
Here are the pictures about the significant missfit:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...post1604866015
Nearly 1-1 inch smaller on each lower sides, there is no edge/direction which this bumper fits. I think one side of my front clip is crashed before and maybe not repaired correctly, but it's a total missfit on each sides.
I really interested in TruFlex. If it's much better, I would buy one and throw this Flex-Fit to the trashcan. It's too much fiberglasswork to make it fit.
Kind Regards, Géza
Sorry, I'm not replying exactly your question, but I have relevant experience with another product with my '73.
So I don't know TruFlex, but I have horrible experience with flex-fit:
https://www.ecklerscorvette.com/1973...-107423-1.html
Here are the pictures about the significant missfit:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...post1604866015
Nearly 1-1 inch smaller on each lower sides, there is no edge/direction which this bumper fits. I think one side of my front clip is crashed before and maybe not repaired correctly, but it's a total missfit on each sides.
I really interested in TruFlex. If it's much better, I would buy one and throw this Flex-Fit to the trashcan. It's too much fiberglasswork to make it fit.
Kind Regards, Géza
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 9,063
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2022 C3 of the Year Finalist - Modified
I made the mistake of buying Trueflex......never again. Its more flexible than rigid glass, but you WILL have bodywork no matter whether its Trueflex or straight fibeglass.....so it offers NO advantage. But what it DOES have is warps, and waves......better than rubber, but they are TOO flexible, and especially when exposed to the sun will warm and have waves. They have flexible resins, and the glass is too thin. The rest of the car body is made of stout rigid fiberglass.....why should the bumper covers be less? Unless you are "okay" with waves and warps in the surface. Buy regurlar straight fiberglass bumper covers and have the entire car look the same.
My painter talked me into the Trueflex.....to theoretically help the bumper fit better.....but it didn't and took as much work as any fiberglass bumper would have. No benefit....lots of disadvantages. And realiize with ANY bumper cover, includeing rubber....you have an impact....they all need major repairs.
In fact....if I was doing it over....I would used fiberglass,...and possibly lay additional layer(s) of glass on the inside to make it as stout as the rest of the body......and then once you have done the required bodywork.....the car is one solid flowing beautiful wave free car....front to back.
My painter talked me into the Trueflex.....to theoretically help the bumper fit better.....but it didn't and took as much work as any fiberglass bumper would have. No benefit....lots of disadvantages. And realiize with ANY bumper cover, includeing rubber....you have an impact....they all need major repairs.
In fact....if I was doing it over....I would used fiberglass,...and possibly lay additional layer(s) of glass on the inside to make it as stout as the rest of the body......and then once you have done the required bodywork.....the car is one solid flowing beautiful wave free car....front to back.
Safety Car
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 3,820
Likes: 1,728
From: Summerville SC
Anything other than hard fiberglass will get waves in it eventually. And as said above, the fitment work will be the same for rigid fiberglass or truffles or flex fit,, whatever they want to call it. Good rule of thumb when you start looking is that the rigid fiberglass is usually white on the inside ( such as ACI) and the flexible product is usually black. General rule of thumb to help when looking at pics somewhere. I got rigid for front ( still fitted it in place) and it was used, but at that it is a major improvement over the rubber. 
Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2019
Posts: 1,057
Likes: 41
From: Chehalis, WA
When I got my '76 3 years ago, both the front and rear bumpers were literally crumbling apart. The front was covered by a bra. I read about flex-fit and tru-fit bumpers, and none of it was good. I purchased fiberglass bumpers, and had a quality body guy fit them, paint them and install them. Couldn't be happier and don't have to worry about warping and fading. Just my .02.
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