front bumper bra
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From: Hampton, GA
front bumper bra
Does anyone have pictures of their c5 with a bra on? My black c5 bumper has gotten super ugly due to chips from rocks. I do a lot of highway driving. If so please send or post your pics. I'd like to see what it looks like with a bra from various angles...
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Got mine from "Auto/Anything"--In Va we have to show our front plate and this is one of the few I found that does. Had it for two years now & holding up very well.
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Yours will look fine with the black bra on the black car - will hardly be noticed.
I didn't like the way my black bra looked on my 2000 Sebring Silver car so I spray painted it silver with Duplicolor Fabric and Vinyl paint and now it blends right in and looks a lot better, almost unnoticeable.
It's been over 2 1/2 years now and I've touched it up once or twice because of the rocks hitting it, making very small black spots where the paint has been scratched or knocked off, but spray it again in less than a minute and it's good as new.
That spot in the second pic where it looks dark on the driver's side below the headlight was resprayed after that pic and it's gone now, took about 15 sec. to make it disappear.
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Clean yes, but I have never felt the need to wax the car every time I put the bra on it. My car has been running the GM bra for better than six years and there are no signs of any damage by just keeping the fascia clean before installing the bra. However, if that's what makes you comfortable in running the bra, nothing wrong with it.
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Yours will look fine with the black bra on the black car - will hardly be noticed.
I didn't like the way my black bra looked on my 2000 Sebring Silver car so I spray painted it silver with Duplicolor Fabric and Vinyl paint and now it blends right in and looks a lot better, almost unnoticeable.
It's been over 2 1/2 years now and I've touched it up once or twice because of the rocks hitting it, making very small black spots where the paint has been scratched or knocked off, but spray it again in less than a minute and it's good as new.
That spot in the second pic where it looks dark on the driver's side below the headlight was resprayed after that pic and it's gone now, took about 15 sec. to make it disappear.
considering you can buy a bra for $100 or so id strongly recommend doing that
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From: Shell Point (Crawfordville) Florida
1willy1- I personally don't like the look of the black bra on my silver car so why would I buy another one when I already had one I didn't like? They don't come in silver so you can't buy one that color. And to each his own, right? I think it looks much better, you are entitled to your own opinion.
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Added bonus of a secondary air filter.(haha) I don't think it would block much. You can see though it. They sure are nice when you get to where you are going and in a couple seconds its off and a nice clean front end.
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1willy1- I personally don't like the look of the black bra on my silver car so why would I buy another one when I already had one I didn't like? They don't come in silver so you can't buy one that color. And to each his own, right? I think it looks much better, you are entitled to your own opinion.
The reason I said it is because it does obviously look like it was spray painted with a rattle can, and im sure its very noticeable in person.
Sort of makes the car look a little run down, JMHO, sorry man
