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Body Kit's for the K10 can be done!!!!!!!

Now If you own a Micra K10 your probably thinking that no one does any body kits for the K10, well your right almost. A few options are available to you, I first take you through what I've had done to mine to alter the exterior of the car.....

Body changes:

Front Bumper / Rear Bumper / Side Skirts / Bonnet scoop / spoiler / smoothed tailgate / custom grill

Body kit prices:

Parts
Cost £££'s
Fitting £££'s
Spraying £££'s
Front Bumper 100 - 200 100 - 150 100 - 150
Side skirts 80 - 200 80-100 80-100
Bonnet scoop 30-100 200 ( smoothed in ) depends on bonnet
Rear Bumper 100 - 200 100- 150 100 - 150
Spoiler 50 - 150 50 40
Tailgate smoothing   80-100 150
Grill   30 40

That table gives you a rough idea of what costs are involved in doing a custom made bodykit, but having the whole job done in one go can usually save you about £300ish

Work in progress shots:

The image show's the Nova GTB front bumper and the grill cut out, the bonnet scoop was done by a previous body kit company, of which all parts have been replaced since! You can see the fibre glass ( darker colour on the bumper ) and to make this bumper fit isn't too difficult as the nova is a similar shape to the micra. The grill is a simple job, just remove the the plastic by cutting it out and smooth with fibre glass.

I had to have the sides of the bumper extending like this due to mess left behind after the arches where cut to allow my previous bumper ( Delta evo ) to fit to my car, in other words they took the cheap and nasty way of fitting it!

This image looks strange as a lot of work was put into the rear of the car including the tailgate and bumper, again spoiler was fitted before. The rear bumper was a standard k10 black bumper which had a fiesta number plate recess added and smoothed all over and then a 106 rear valance smoothed in and extended. The tailgate had it's number plate lights removed and number plate housing smoothed in to give a flushed / smoothed tailgate.

These are delta evo universal side skirts which were 'stuck' on before by guess who..........yes you guessed it that famous company! well I had a sill plate put in them to they fitted straight and also a few other small things done to them

The finished look:

Makes it worth it when you can stand back look at the finished job and be pleased with the outcome. Thanks goes to Paul @ Melton Fibre Glass for the great work gone into the car, especially the rear bumper and tailgate.

Further Body modifications:

Having a bodykit made such as the one above isn't cheap and does take a lot of time to complete, but you can change the exterior without having to go to that kind of cost!

This image shows standard front bumper sprayed to match car with the addition of fog lamps in replace of indicators ( moved to side lights ) and corner splitter, blue light strips also

This image show's a Seat ibiza valance cut down and bolted on to the rear bumper, cheap body mod @ £35 plus your effort making it fit

shows the colour coded standard bumpers with addition of corner splitters

The Delta evo front bumper can fit on the K10 bumper I advice having Fibre glass work and re-doing the side arches on the bumper so it fits directly therefore avoiding arch cutting on the car.

My car with the first Kit fitted looked good but close up you could see the poor fitment courtesy of a Body styling company, front bumper had to taken up a few inches

Even lower at the front with smaller alloys, image taken at JAE 2001

 

 

 

 

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