nexia bumper

[Orbital]

shall i fit a nexia bumper to my belmont? i'm smothing out the boot lid on my belmont and need somewhere to put my number plate and the nexia has a reses to put it and there is one down my local scrappy for £30+vat shall i go for it or not?

[Strick]

Worth a crack mate in my opinion.

[VEGA]

the nexia is a much more rounder car.....and the bumper IMO is too......round.....as in not flat enough....altho i cant picture it very well without a pic ...

go get it then.....and ill see some pix then...

[Gander]

I'd have too see at least the nexia bumper to vote, A mockup would be even better tho, Perhaps Photoshop pro's could sort you a mockup Orbital?

[Cris Rose]

you'd need to trim the bumper - the nexia bumpers go right up to the rear lights, the belmont lights have a metal panel under them.

[Orbital]

here are some pics of a nexia rear bumper and if someone could stick it on the pic of the belmont and smoth the tailgate that's how it will look but in white and the an sri spoiler

[Orbital]

just thought what would i do about fog lights?

[DaveB]

I reckon that'd look damn good mate go for it

[Nova-X]

From what I can remember the Nexia bumpers look very similar to the "Le Mans" in the USA which was the Astra Mk2 over here.

[MK2_ASTRA_SXI]

thats wicked im gona get the htchback version one cos it saves p*ssin bout making the # plate recess

[ianb]

i think the saloon version of the nexia has the recess already in it. the hatch number plate is in the same position as the astra and mounted on the tailgate. i have just put my boot back on after flushing it and i just modded the original bumper for now to fit a fiesta plate recess in.once i sort out my digi camera i'll try and stick some pics up.

[Orbital]

i'm going to get it but what should i do with the fog lights? shall i change my reverse light to a fog might look tacky or mold fog lights in the bumper and if so which ones and how?

[Jhonno]

Go for it mate

[Orbital]

I've been and got it and feck me it ways a ton most of the bumper is just pure metal it will lower my rear end without the need of lowering springs

[MarkC]

Hey Orbital,

You nabbing my idea for the nexia rear end on the Belmont?
Have you managed to fit it yet?

I managed to get a hold of a rear bumper about 3 months ago, but due to the usuall problems like having to re-build the top end on the car, I have not had a chance to get it done.

Have you sussed out how to fit it yet, I like you was surprised once I got the damn thing off, after having to remove about a thousancd plastic clips and crap. I managed to get the front metal bumper bar also, so if I can get a hold of a front plastic bumper I can get the front done too.

I am sure that all you will have to do is cut the section just above the end of where the vauxhall bumper would have stopped and then possible have to drill new mounting holes, as looking at it, the mounting is similar to the vauxhall, but offset slightly.

Keep me posted on how your getting on with it.

Cheers

[Orbital]

i've just sorted out the bumper it ain't as easy as just cutting that plastic bit off and drill new holes and bolt it on. when the top bit was vut off there was a gap between the the top of the bumper and the back of the car so had to make up a bit of plastic to bolt on so filler can be put on a smothed off. but it's on there now and the body shop has to do the filla bit and spray it up

[Orbital]

here's a pic of it at the mo

[VEGA]

it loox quite good there... ...much betta than i thought it would

[MarkC]

Hey Orbital,

Bumper looking good mate....

What colour you going to end up spraying the car?

Someone on here sugested using a red bulb on a re-wired reverse light to counteract the probelm of the fog light. Should do the job I would have thought.

So you've had gap problems with the top section of the bumper. Was is a bit of a mare to get fixed or was it left to the bodyshop? At least I will know when it comes to getting mine done. I never got much of achance to offer the bumper up to my car to check for that, so I would have probable found the same.

I recon it will look good once you have it done and sprayed.
What you got planned forthe front end?

Keep it going mate....

[Orbital]

the car is going to be sprayed in white with a blue pearlecent

me and my dad made up the bit of plastic up from some stuff my dad had at work and bolted it to the white plastic bit. you could just put expanding foam in the gap but then you'll never be able to take the bumper off and if it get's a nock it might crack.

the front end is having a badboy gte bonnet and a 16v gte bumper with washer jets removed number plate bit cut out and meshed with the number plate monted on the z style spliter

only thing i'm going to have to weld on an extra section on my exhaust so it can be seen

[Orbital]

here's a better pic of the bumper with the snoothed boot and you can see where i had to make a plastic bit up

[SimonP]

Looking good mate! Nice to see someone doing up a Belmont! Not seen a Nexia bumper on one either.

Hope that white bumper on the left hand side of that bloke aint going on your car.

[Orbital]

i've heard people going on about doing but ain't seen the nexia on a car yet hopefully i'm the first

and that bumper ain't mine and going with a GTE bumper on the front with a 'Z' spliter and meshed number plate ressces and number plate on the spliter

[SimonP]

Nice! When will it be sprayed then???

[Orbital]

well not sure when it will go under the gun it was ment to be done months ago. but problems with one person that was going to do then said it would take ages then he said to take it to this bloke and was ment to be started on the 10th of may but didn't get started till a couple of weeks ago alloysd where nicked so he's nocking the price off and don't want to push or he might cut corners so i'll just have to wait and see