thanks for the positive feedback guys! I was really nervous about how the boser would turn out, and now my worries have melted away after receiving these pics!
The cost of the project is high. I gotta say that I have been saving for this since August and it started with a simple lower paint & notch fill with a lip. Then slowly I became obsessed with the idea of shaving the bumper... so I switched to eating ramen every day for lunch. I shopped around for a grille and thats when I saw my first boser hood w/o fender work :wub: not having a gf over the holidays for the first time in a decade, I was able to rationalize with myself that going all out on the hood would be like a gift to my sweetheart that I can truly say is the girl of my dreams!
When I bought the car at the dealership over a year ago I had a "stone guard" clear shield package added onto the loan. I waited to do it mainly because I was never a full on fan of the front end of our cars and knew body work was in my future. Once that stuff is put on there is no gong back! That kinda pushed me over the edge on having the lip moulded in. The whole front end will be nearly seamless and literally exactly what I had envisioned almost two years ago when I first started to look at the mkv.
I shopped around a bit getting a few rough estimates. I ended up going with the highest. I really only would have saved roughly 15-20% by going with the cheaper, less experienced shops. Once you spend a certain amount the last few hundred bucks look smaller then before. I turned it into a percentage and not a number because it's easier to swallow and kinda helps put it in perspective.
I provided the lip, fog covers and grille.
If my loan wasn't a 0% for my baby, I would have never done this so soon!... oh the things we do for love!! It is not just a car now. It's a "work of art" the shop told me. I couldn't agree more.
