so..........you ended up using half of the front bumper from accolade and half from oem...

 

i didnt have any problems with my kit from them

 

i have to say that my body shop took one look at Accolade's bumper and said 'no'.

But when we did it ourselves it was fine, no issues at all as long as you pop-rivett it to the stock installation bracket correctly.

I have to admit there is huge margin for error there, if you dont rivett it in the right place it wont line up.

 

yeah body shops can be manipulative $$$, if you go to a body shop and say i cant fit these parts, they will assume you have little options, they will advise that they do all this unnecessary work or whatever they can to get the most hours.. or quote high.

Glad you fitted your bumper PERFECTLY Diavlo, also happy to the customer above that post that said NO PROBLEMS with their parts as well.. it all depends in how you access the task at hand and where you go to..

Why did they mount that bumper with the exhaust shooting directly into it. I dont know why a body shop would do that without first advising that the muffler be realigned properly.. thats not good, I would go back to that shop and have them correct it and I would also see about that color match..

But its a decent job i guess..



The Evo 8 front was one of our first bumpers and its JDM spec requires modification..

TOMS Fronts, Extreme Fronts, Evo 9 Rears etc, basically everything after that fits perfect and is USDM.

 

Well the reason I took it to a body-shop was because I dont know what I'm doing! Better they do it than me!

However I started to get concerned when they kept going on about what a huge job it was and how much it would cost me... I saved myself about £300 or $500 doing it myself and had none of the problems I suspect I would have had, had they done it.

So i just took the parts home and did it myself with a mate of mine - very slowly.

I mean its not something that is going to be easy to do... It took us the best part of two days, but it was straightforward really, we didnt have problems.

I cant speak for the front bumper because I dont have that, but I suspect it may be something to do with that bumper being for the Asian spec cars like mine - and i suspect if I bought it, it would probably fit right.

With the rear bumper, once youve got the stock off, it became apparent to us that it was not going to be easy to install, because the stock bumper is rivetted to an installation bracket.

Thus if you rivett it wrong, it aint gonna line up right.

I too need to lower my exhuast a slight bit, it doesnt touch the bumper but its close. I dont blame the bumper for that, I simply just get some new hangers.

I'd say my fitment is near perfect. Its never going to be as good as stock. But its totally up the the person installing it how well it lines up - you drill the holes or rivett it to the bracket... you are responsible for it lining up!

 

when we put on the hyper rear bumper with out any modification the exhaust was still hitting the rear bumper. in fact it was worse. modifying the bumper made it better.

When you paint things at diffrent times, you will never get the same color match. there will be always a diffrent in color especially when you paint on diffrent materials. After i wash the car there is not much of a color diffrence from the factory paint. the paint is alot better than the painted eyelids that i got from accolade. the eyelids that accolade painted have a yellowish color to them.
the body shop also modify the front bumper so i can keep my front crash bar on. i cant see why accolade could not do it?

there is also no way the rear bumper could fit with out major modification. the bumper started to crack after the 1st test fit we did. a day later there was cracks about 4 inches long on the side of the rear bumper.

Accolade also wanted me to pay the shipping of the bumpers to get a new one. to me it was not worth it, shipping it back to them and then having to wait few months more for a new bumper. I have waited long enough for the bumper to be shipped to me.

 

i Agree With Red dragon, i have to admit that the Accolade first gen products are crap!! ,i have no idea what the new products are like, but if they want to stay in buisness for any length of time to come they better get they'er act together and make a bettery product, i wouldn't mind so much if i got what i paid for, but sorry the quality is just not there, if you figure typically the kit cost (here in canada) about $1900.00 + the fact you have to add another $1500.00 in reapairs,re-finish, paint and install (for thoses who don't do work them selves) that's ALOT of money to fork out for a body kit!! that's just insane, for that money i would rather spend it on a Turbo or a nice set of wheels & tires, anyhow just my 2 cents like it or not

 

Like i said, you've really gotta get it right with that rear bumper and rivett it in just the right places or it'll crack from the stress. I think we may have been lucky.

The key to installing the rear bumper is rivett it to the frame in such a way that the stress wont crack it. Follow the stock rivett pattern and you should be fine.


As you can see in the photo of mine below, there is a lot of scope for rivetting it in the wrong place which would lead to two problems

1). Awful Fitment
2). Cracks from the Stress of incorrect rivetting.

I feel most bodyshops lack the passion for getting it perfect. I'm sure if I hadnt done this myself it wouldnt have been perfect.

 

my rivet points did not even come close to match up. there was no way to putting on the bumper with out modification.

And i know that not all body kits come perfect. you will always need to do some modification to make it fit unless you spend over 3 grand for a body kit like INGS. Out of all my friends that got body kits, mine was by far the worst for fitament but the best for cracks and smoothness.

 

why do many accolade customers say their parts fit perfect?

 

Maybe you should try trading it in if you want an evo so bad.

"Often imitated, never duplicated!"

 

ummm may be because they dont come to canada!!! use your head

Dave do really want to start a poll about how your products fit?
You guys do make good products and thats why i buy them but i think you guys should put more effort in creating them and makeing sure they will fit better.


hey diavlo your kit is a different material its like a uerathane and my kit is fiberglass. accolades fiberglass kits fit like **** but there urathane type kits are good. and how you were say about riviting in the right spots, well my rear bumper didnt have that little lip that you see on your where the is room to rivit on too mine was..... i dont know no way you can b put that brakacet on.


and for the last time the paint is a match MY CAR IS DIRTY IN those pics.

 

Another jealous Evo owner gets owned. Get over it, RA's can look just as good as Evo's. How many times have you seen a RA owner get pissy at a OZ owner for using our skirts, bumpers, wings? 99.9999% of us dont mind. You guys need to chill out.

 

Stand corrected then! I'll say that Accolade's new bumpers fit perfectly! So, if they start making them all in that material - everyone will be happy surely!?

 

I am just so sad to see this post. But i always do respect your view as a customer

1 ) This customer has ordered a Evo 8 Bumper ( We have advertisied this Bumper as a JDM Spec Bumper ) This means you need to remove the front crash bar.
This means you should not buy this if you do not want to remove the front crash bar. There is no way you can fix this with the front crash bar on.

So there is no problem with the fitament. Its just that you cannot fit it because we had said that it cannot be fitted because you need to remove the front crash.

But now its so simple to understand

CRASH BAR ON - NO YOU CANNOT FIX IT
CRASH BAR REMOVED - YES YOU CAN FIX IT AND WILL FIT PERFECTLY.( This what we had advertsied )


NOW THE BODY SHOP SAY, This is the way to fix it. Ok then the customer decides to give the permision to fit it the way they want it and not the way we have designed it to be fitted.

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Example You have car with 15 inches and you buy a tire which 18 inchs to be fitted to the 15inch. Now can you do that ?. NO.

The product is advetised can be only used with 18 inch wheels. No the body shop say, no we can fix it to the 15inch and let us fiberglass it.( But it will cost more ) Now is the 18 inch tire manufacture sensible for the cost involved in fitting a 18 inch tires to 15inch wheel,


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you had emailed me for some advise i would have told... look here dont do that it will cost so much money, buy the Hyper Front or any other Front which is US spec.

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Accolade does not design kits to be fitted at home. All our kits require profesional expertise in Installation. All our kits have been designed meet OEM specs ( Unless Advertised ). And if you have any techical issue you need to always email us first so we know what you can do best.

Remember the Evo 8 front bumper has not fitment problem at all, Just that it cannot be fitted with the front crash bar on. Its just so simple for any one to understand. See the customer from UK fixed the Hyper Bumper and had no problems.


Mitsubishi Makes so manys cars, All have different owners. Some cars are so lucky to stay in operation for 15 years with owners who are very capable of driving, But some cars meet with accidents within first couple of months. Now is this a problem with the Manufacture. No. Just like that every person who fits a kit tried to approach any problem totally differently. Some go the right path and some go the wrong path. If they go the right path we get a very good thumps up over here. Sadly when they choose the wrong path we just get screwed.

Its just so sad. Same product installed in two different countried by two different people.