Style 177, with wheel arches (Pics now available).

[cpatzer]

Okay,

So I go to discount tire last night to get my wheels put on. So excited. I then travel over to my friends’ house to put on the retro-fit wheel arches. What a mistake.

My friend and I got 3 hours into it, only to find out that they use oversized, specialty, plastic pop-rivets to install the wheel arches. Had the whole bumper off and one wheel arch off. Had to abort after a trip to Home Depot, only to find out that the bit for the rivet gun we needed would have to be purchased at a specialty store. It is now 9:00pm, not going to happen.

We ended up using the 5 regular plastic rivets (ridged kind you push in) we had in the kit, just to barely put back on the stock wheel arch (we had to destroy the factory ones to pull it off), it takes 8 of the other kind. Hope it holds until I can get it in to the dealer.

It is totally a pain in the arse. You even have to CUT your factory bumper via a template just to put on two of the rear pieces.

All this just to be LEGAL! I would highly recommend just paying the dealer to put these in. Which now after all that wasted time, it looks like I am going to have to do.

And the arches don't even look that good!

My two cents.