jimmyinrugby

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Hi,I want to replace the front bumper as I think it looks crap ! Also I want better lights,so the question is can this be done with lights in it?..Also if it can what am I looking for ?.
Cheers

See front pic...

http://s1089.photobucket.com/albums/...current=w9.jpg

dean_1991

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put a classic front bumper on and add a bottom splitter/fog covers lights are ok

the hamster

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you want to look for "facelift" lights and bumper chap

jimmyinrugby

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FACELIFT and the year of the car ??...I will start Ebaying then !! Cheers

jimmyinrugby

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Right stuff ??

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?rt=...p3286.c0.m1539

jimmyinrugby

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OK,looking for that aswell,both will fit ok though?

Stealth

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Facelift

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/subaru-imp...item45fecccfdd

None face lift

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/subaru-imp...item45fec36569

With the existing lights you can just fit the HID kit that comes up so many times in the group buy section

jimmyinrugby

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Many thanks for this...I like this one...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/subaru-imp...d=288309906728
What do you mean about the lights?..Yes I am as thick as pig **** !
Cheers again

jimmyinrugby

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Thanks again,I have just bought that....So (don't laugh) I just need to get it sprayed and how do I go about getting lights etc?
Cheers

jimmyinrugby

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As I am thick (lol) I just bought this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/subaru-imp...d=288284236656
I thought it was the whole thing,but its just the bit at the bottom..So how do I go about getting the rest ?

alcazar

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Going back to your post where you gave an e-bay link and asked if it was the right stuff:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nk....c0.m270.l1313

Look at the TWO green mica bumpers, items two and three, (they were). Item two is what most people call "facelift", item three is the earlier bumper.

Now you have a problem, since you have bought the SPLITTER that fits the earlier bumper, and it won't fit the later one.

However, there is very little difference once the splitter is on, it takes an expert to tell......or a Scooob fan. Also, the earlier bumpers go for less than the later ones, you should get one for well under £100, try and get one WITH indicators, since they can be £30 extra.
Note that the earler/later indicators are NOT interchangeable. Headlights and foglights off 97 onwards cars ARE interchangeable.
If one comes up for decent money WITH the foglights, grab it, you can sell the fogs on for around £20 the pair, maybe more, money OFF the bumper.

Your final problem: since your car ALREADY has a front mounted intercooler, you, or your bodyshop, will have to cut the replacement front bumper to suit. I have seen it done by an expert and it takes two hours MINIMUM. Anyone who reckons much less will just butcher the new bumper, so be careful.

Lights: either put some Philips 100/80 bulbs in your existing lights, (around £20) or get some HID projectors fitted, (around £240). See here: https://www.scoobynet.com/technical-...mpler-way.html

Avoid HID aftermarket kits like the plague, they don't work well in H4 lights, being badly unfocussed on main beam, and since Scoob lights are cr@p anyway........

You could, however, look around for a driving light kit off e-bay........they come up occasionally, a mate has just bought an HID driving light lit off there for £155. Halogen ones come up for £100 or so, but avoid any with rusty reflectors.

DON'T just go out and buy foglights. The OE Subaru foglights LOOK Ok but are useless to see by.

Be VERY careful if searching those on ebay, since unscrupulous or thick sellers often describe foglights as "spotlights" or "driving light". They aren't.

Here are some HID driving lights: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUBARU-IMP...item415e647996

and here are some foglights: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-Imp...item19c591eb7c
Note that matey has described them as spotlights: they ARE NOT!

Herer are some more foglights, off a facelift car, so crystal, described as BOTH, LOL: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-Imp...item2c60e06986

Here is a really nice item, ex-P1 lights and covers, but they won't fit the earlier bumper http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/subaru-imp...item45fecd9e52

Best of luck.

jimmyinrugby

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Hi...Cheers for that...a PM is on it way to you.

jimmyinrugby

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I have just spoken to the seller,and a very nice chap he was,he understood that I thought it was the whole thing in the picture and I have paid his paypal fees and he will re sell it.