Audi A4 Bumper Lips

Bumper finish was as good as it gets for fiberglass products, so I was initially impressed. However, the installation was a disaster. The bumper fit worse than any fiberglass product I've worked with. It did not follow the same contour around the crash bar, and it was nowhere near to bolting up to the fenders. Applying heat to the bumper was not enough to get it to form into the correct shape. I took it upon myself to make it fit. I made a dozen wedge-shaped cuts in the bumper in the key areas, and I drilled holes on either side. The holes were to force the bumper into the position I wanted with minimal gap using a couple of bolts and steel plates. I even cut the bumper straight in half to relieve the tension in the fiberglass, and I bolted it back together after working on the areas that were deforming due to the curvature of the stock crash bar. Curvature the bumper should have had to begin with. At the end of all this I had to lay up fiberglass on the inside of the bumper to hold it in place for when I would remove the steel plates. After too much work and frustration I was able to make it fit. That is probably the last time I work with budget fiberglass parts. I also tried installing without the crash bar, but this was equally a fail since the bumper had more tension along the bottom lip and would distort inward towards the car.