Warning for Fake Veilside Body Kits

[ohioboy2019]

just to let you all know i know i just bought what everyone is calling a fake veil side for 150.00. I have had many people look at it and everyone is saying it is real. I have taken pictures of it and sent it to veil side. I am currently waiting for an answer but the guy on the phone said it looks official. My body kit has fit close to perfect with a few minor flaws.

There are a small gap below my headlights and my tail lights. He said this is normal sometimes because it is an old mold. He told me how to fix it. SO not all what your saying is true.

He also said that they stopped stamping the kits on the rear bumper and that they ae only stamped now on the far rear of the side skirts

[TAK82]

ya think veilside will hook you up with the real stuff by asking you to take the fake one off??

most companies do that..ask you take the knock-off off and give you the real stuff for free to promote their product and show that genuine is better

spoon sport's doe's stuff like that..

oh and sorry for the old post wakey

[Jed118]

Fuck that shit... if the knockoff's moulds are even one third of the quality of the real ones, I'd say do it up! With enough time, you can make shit fit.

Of course this is coming from a guy who moulded a 1987 escort GT bumper and 1988 Z24 sideskirts into his 1984 Pony.... takes time, I guess at 18 you got it...

In any case, fakes, REINFORCE IT!!!

trust me, even real Zefiro's need reinforcement...

This is of course coming from a married student making just under 40k a year driving 4 cars and tuning them all!

PONYS FTW!!!

[tachionic005]

I just recently finished my "fake veilside" vader2kit.
Thing is, I have a 99 Tib and the veilside kit is only for the 2nd gen.
So didn't have much choice, I think the veilside kit is the nicest looking kit on the 99 Tib so i had to go with it. I got the extreem dimensions duraflex kit.
I had no previous bodywork experience so I knew I was in for a serious project.
It took almost 3 months to get this thing on, most of the work was pretty straight forward, lining it up, drilling the boltholes.
Big issues i encountered, lets start with the rear bumper:
there was a nasty gap on the passenger side, kida where it slants upward near the backlight, so i filled it in and shaped it to match.
Also, the lights,,, one of the backlights was good! the other one had a gap between the bumper and the light, and you could see into the bumper and stick your little finger clean in it, not nice,, solution:
I filled it in on the inside of the bumper and sanded it smooth, looks nice and then i had to even out the look with the other side so i bodyfilled outward and sanded it smooth (a way bigger job) so now there is symetry.
I also used filler to tighten the creases all around the car, somthing you should do on any bodykit and thats very easy to do.
OK for the sideskirts, took me a month, 2 weeks of witch was brainstorming. how do i do this, the bottom area making the crease by the bottom door was like 1" big, so ugly and bad! tried everything, nothing helped, i even cut out a peice in the rear wheelwell to see if i could get it up anymore,,, that just distorted everything bad when pushing it up so i re-fiberglassed that (i had to learn how to fiberglass to do this).
So to solve the problem, i made a fiberglass extension on the sideskirts, then filled it with bodyfiller and shaped it nicely till i had a nice crease under the door.
then i had to goop the peices front and back over the original panels because these vader sides go over certain parts. it is bolted on as well but glue is required to keep the parts firmly on the body.
The front bumper was the easyest, very little work, i just tighten the creases with filler, smooth the edges. ok and one wheel well was not so perfectly round, the passenger side seemed to angle of sharply looking more like a v, horrible, i set up a cardboard mold and filled it with bondo, then sanded it to match. took 30 minutes.
so thats it, took a lot of work!!! 3 months,,, and thats working using almost all my spare time and working full time.
I didn't mold it on cause i live in north america and cold weather would just trash the moulding but it looks great not molded.
So now I got one of the hottest looking cars in town so it was worth it.
So if you have a 2nd gen tib, 2000$ in your kit budget, and want to get it on in a few hours, go with veilside original.
If you want the "fake" vader2 version, be prepared for a big job that could keep you off the road for weeks or months.
For those of you with 99 Tibs, you dont have much choice but your in for a huge!!! project, if your objective oriented and are determined you can get it on.
You will spend hundreds in bodyfiller/ fiberglass materials and you will need a orbital sander, lots of 3m wetdry sandpaper and for the front bumper you need a anglegrinder to modify the front shock absorber,, thats what i used and it was fast to do.

you can see pics in the gallery area of my finished project, i still need to do some wet sanding and maybe some more clearcoat on the front and rear bumpers and some more wet sanding.
Good luck all