So guys... were going into another bloody lockdown for a month... and quite probably two the rate things are going. Need to keep myself occupied during these dark winter nights... so had better get cracking again with project 11 Turbo!!
Got the original rear bumper back from my painter a few weeks ago, after I realised the new one I bought was for a 5 door... and they're bloody different..

ANY-WAY, I got it back and it was looking as good as new. He really did a remarkable job of repairing it, and then re-painting it.
Before I could re-fit it to the car though, I needed to do a couple of small jobs. First thing was to re-fit a foam strip that was originally installed from the factory behind the bumper.. to no-doubt, stop it from rattling when fitted. I (obviously) had a picture of the original strip, from when I was breaking the car down:

So I had a few lengths of foam tape, and one fitted the bill:
Next it was to get the bumper ready to fit. First thing was to re-fit the small reflectors that are positioned in the sides of the bumper. Thankfully I had some new ones from the (other) wrong bumper that were correct, and they just slipped in a treat:

Next it was time to tackle the rear bumper strip... I'd bought a couple of new OE Bumper strips many years ago, and dug them out of my parts stash:Thing is, one of them was RED and one of them was CHROME. I was always a guesstimate if I'd brought the correct ones, as the part numbers never matched up.. but today I found out. The Chrome one was correct, the Red one not.

Wanting to keep the strip OE (I did toy with the idea of fitting the chrome strip, but decided against it) I had to transform the Chrome into Red... So I spent a couple of hours cleaning/degreasing and then re-covering the bumper Chrome Strip with some of the RED pin-striping I'd bought for other mouldings on the car:

Once the bumper-strip was all covered, I then spent a few minutes ensuring the pin-striping was properly stuck on, by heating it with a hot-air gun, and pressing it firmly on. Once the pin-striping was fitted, I was then time to "Clip" the bump-strip back into the bumper:

I am
SOOOOOOOOO pleased with how this turned out!! The bumper looks
FABULOUS!! And even better when it's all bolted back onto the car:
Thanks for reading!
