Hey guys,

The Cobalt I'm buying has a front plate mounted on it. I hate that look. In Illinois, It's required, but on my old LT, I never had a front plate (2 yrs) and it never brought up any issues.

Question is this: is there anyway I can plug and paint in a DIY manner, or should I just bring it to a body shop? (I plan on doing the "Evo mod" anyway.)

 

just make bumper plugs

 

 

put tape on the outside of the holes, throw some fiberglass on it from the inside, let it dry, peal the tape off and color match. Makes it seamless

 

no thanks...


As for the fiberglass option... Explain this to me a little more?

 

sorry not so much fiberglass more of kitty hair bondo, the fine stuff. Just get a little, throw some hardener in there and follow the instructions above. The ONLY hard part should be color matching. I repainted my entire bumper so it didn't effect me, but if you mask it off and get close it should be fine.

 

My buddy that works at abody shop told me to just put some 5 minute Epoxy in and paint over.Haven't got around to it yet though.

 

Ah, okay that makes more sense! I was like.. How the hell am I going to make perfect little 1/4" fiberglass circles..

 

here's what you do. Get a good cookie cutter (preferably 1/4") cut some dough then pour the epoxy in and paint. BOOM done