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Old 02-03-2003, 12:51 PM
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headlights, foglights, taillights and more...

my foglight brackets are RUSTED (1987 irocz) and falling apart, plus my lights look terrible, headlights, foglights, and taillights all look really "dirty" and "faded" even after being washed, does anyone sell replacement factory taillight covers? new foglight supports and foglights?

also...not exactly on topic, but how hard is it to remove the front bumper off a 1987 iroc? the support structure that holds my headlights in place is broken (guy hit me)

has anyone actually removed their front end? how hard is it? i want to replace my front bumper and driver side fender....how hard is it? can i do it?
Old 02-03-2003, 04:24 PM
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my left fog light housing is rusted as well. I believe they are GM only and they run like $50-60 a piece.
Old 02-06-2003, 10:08 PM
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Car: 87 IROC Z-28
Engine: 406-Mini Ram-AFR 195's-DFI Gen 6.32
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Axle/Gears: 9" - 31 spline - 3:89
The fog lights on my 87 rusted and I replaced them with GM. My cost was around 75 each. As for your tail light lens you can buff them with a buffer and some polish. Run the buffed slow, like 1000 RPM and take your time Meguires #3 polish works great.
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Originally posted by 406-Z
The fog lights on my 87 rusted and I replaced them with GM. My cost was around 75 each. As for your tail light lens you can buff them with a buffer and some polish. Run the buffed slow, like 1000 RPM and take your time Meguires #3 polish works great.
damn dude, you overpaid...they run $50.28 each at www.gmpartsdirect.com. That's for part number 5977437. Take that price to your local GM dealer and they will most likely price match it.
Old 02-07-2003, 11:25 PM
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Guess I did overpay!!! To late to go back and price match, it was about 2 years ago.
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I dont know if this applies, but I was reading in last months Pontiac magazine, that some guy with an 86 TA bought 89-94 Chevy Blazer fog light lenses for like 5 bucks at Pepboys versus the 75 bucks that that Classic Industries wanted.
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to take your front bumper cover off what u have to do is first take off your ground effects, about 10 bolts, then 4 on each side to get the bumper cover off, and about 8 or so that attaches it to the accual bumper. the four on each side are a pain to get to tho. because of the fact that the top two on each side u can only move ur socket about 1.5 inches at time and ur hand cant move much more than that. so it takes forever. and my hands arent even big.

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Old 02-09-2003, 05:29 PM
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so the front bumper and gfx are only bolted in?

how about fenders...are they welded or bolted on?
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du guys think you guys had high prices.
i got a the fog lights priced out and they wanted $224 from the dealer ship. this i had to order the housing/ braket 2 bulbs and the new wires.. i still have tone broken lense on my driver side foglight, so if anyone has one let me know.
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