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So You Want A Body Kit?

So you are ready for the next step in Second there are Urethane or ABS body
visual and aerodynamic upgrades? Well, I kits. Urethane body kits are great in the
want to cover a few basic steps before fact that they are very sturdy and
you take the big plunge and sink a big flexible. Cracking is fairly unlikely,
wad of dough on a body kit that may not unless your putting the kit on a 4x4
be all its cracked up to be. No pun vehicle. Urethane kits are not as
intended. readily available as fiber glass, but can
First, let consider the steps of buying a usually be find through specialty
body kit. First we want to determine the dealers. The cons of Urethane and ABS
type of vehicle it will be going on. Not are that once they break, chip, or crack,
many of us are professional race care there are very few ways of fixing them to
drivers, but some of us still want the what they once were. Unless you are
performance of one. So first thing to really good at plastic welding, you are
consider is, what kind of kit do you need going to have buy a new kit. Ouch!
for your body kit buck. Third there is the ever coveted Carbon
First there are the standard Fiberglass Fiber body kits. They are super light
body kits. Fiberglass is good because it and super strong. Carbon fiber is a
is lightweight and should you crack, ram material that is often used in making
into, smack into, bump against any object bullet proof vest and other bullet
that may cause damage, it can be repaired hindering materials. Carbon fiber kits
with some basic fiber glass know-how or a can also be painted and the finish is
decent body shop. Also, paint is going to closest to that of fiber glass. The cons
look the best on a fiberglass body kit. of carbon fiber is that it is super
Unlike ABS, paint stays on the surface expensive and they are not widely
and is not absorbed into the materials of available for many vehicles. Also,
the kit. Fiberglass kits are the most carbon fiber kits cannot be repaired
widely available types of kits on the easily once damaged. There are seams as
market. The cons of Fiberglass, is that well as breakage that is usually apparent
it is not very durable. If you live in a once a kit has been repaired.
mountainous area, with dirt road and such Check out my next article on Body Kit
that you may frequent, the possibilities Brands and Quality.
if your shiny new kit being damaged Check out this link for more on Scion
beyond repair are fairly high. Body Kits.




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