yes all of your rebles out their who took their front plates off can envy me now.

Supplies:

*Dupli-color touch up paint to your cars color. You can pick this up at autozone or wallmart for the price of $5.99 at most.

*Exacto knive

*Dorman Panel Retainer assortment clips ( 963-075) . about 3 bucks i think.

*Styrofoam block. not necessary but makes it easier. I just happend to have one laying around. 1 dollar if your going to pick one up.





Steps.

1. AFter your front plate is off you will notice that the holes the dealer drilled will have a little lip on them. Take your exacto kinve and trim that down a little bit so that it is all flush without and edges or lips sticking out from your holes. ( dont worry because your trimming will not be noticalbe).



2. Use the touch up paint brush and apply a first coat. This will look like crap so dont worry about it. I applied about 4-5 coats on each "bumper plug". Wait about 30mins to an hour between coats so that its completly dry.



3. I perfer using the clip i have pictures hear. I first painted 3 clips but they were to small. The one w/ me holding it works the best and sits flush against your front bumper.






4. after having them dry. Just push them in your 3 holes in the front. I have before and after pictures .



5. Enjoy the new look for it looks great .

 

whys your paint peeling

 

What the hell did you hit, a dog?

 

the body shop i brought it to when i got my new front bumper sucks at paiting apparently. Then not to mention in the winter the only time i work is when im plowing and i have to drive 21 miles through the snow. And usually I have to plow through snow banks so i dont get stuck in the middle of the street.

Edit: but my friend is painint it for free this summer. I just need to supply the paint . so im not too concerned. on that note does anybody know where I could get like a pint of it at?

 

nice write up man, what store did you get the plugs at??

 

If you have to paint the bumper, just fill the holes in. Urethane is really easy to fill.

 

Autozone.

yea i prolly will. but this was done out of boredom. so i figured why not do it for some of ya guys.

 

http://www.paintscratch.com/ just put in your car and you can get paint from their that is factory matched. or you can always get a body shop to mix you up some paint, if you think it would be cheaper.

 

Great how-to, this is a really good idea.

 

By the way, what size panel retainer did you get?

 

Holy Crap,

Time to get a plough on the Cobalt...

 

If my bumper looked like that I wouldn't be worrying about the holes for the registration plate.

 

Agreed..

 

Do you think those plugs would work to fill the holes in my trunk if i take off my wing?

 

better seal them too, don't want water in the trunk from rain but the holes from the wing look like this (0) 0 on each side, so not really.

 

Just did this today. makes the car like 10x better! I used a styrofoam cup to shove the clips in. put 2 coats on and shoved em in the holes when they dried.

 

Yah i did this also a couple weeks ago, great thing to cover the holes

-Scott

 

Nice write up man. I'll be using this guide this summer!

 

thanks for the compliments.

also for those people out there who are more concerned w/ the bumper then the wholes i got that fixed last summer .

 

i just found this while i'm waiting for mine to dry, atleast now i know i'm on the right track!

 

Why **** around with hole plugs when you were having it painted.

Bondo! Biach!

 

Do something nice for someone and it will just bite you in the ass... He was bored and did something that helped alot of people. No more bitching!

 

thankfully, the dealership didnt put my plate.. or plate holder on the car


nice shaved look



stock:

 

wish i could do this, but in Texas you have to have the front plate...sucks

 

3YR BUMP!!! Just buy a hide-a-plate $60 free shipping
http://www.swiftmotorsports.com/prod...c33d42a843469e