[s-cars] Front bumper skins

[Dave Ellis]

I looked into this quite a bit when needing to replace my front bumper 
on my '93 S4.

 From what I was able to determine after examining ETKA, the microfiche 
at the local Audi dealer, and exchanging lots of email with various 
people and parts suppliers, it does appear that you are able to mount a 
S6 bumper skin onto a S4.  It is possible though that some of the 
earlier S4 models might need newer mounting clips for each fender.

That said, I was not actually able to find a S6 bumper skin to test fit 
to my S4, so it may be possible that there are some unforeseen snags. 

As far as I know only one person has done a "S6 conversion" on their S4, 
and in that case he replaced not only the front bumper, but the hood and 
the two front fenders as well.  I'll have to see if I can find the URL 
for his web site.  At the moment who it was escapes me.

The down side is that a new bumper skin for the S6 is more expensive 
than the skin for the S4, and that's quite a chunk of change to 
experiment with.  Trying to find a used bumper skin is *very* hard.  
They are rare.  I looked for a used bumper skin at a reasonable price 
for two years before finding a used S4 bumper in good shape.  By that 
point I was happy to find any bumper skin and gave up on trying to fit a 
S6 bumper.  At this point I'm planning on just painting the entire S4 
bumper to match the car so it looks more or less like a S6 bumper (I 
personaly prefer the "body coloured" look on the S6 rather than the 
"black stripe" look on the S4).  By adding enough flex to the paint and 
using a good primer, the paint should adhere nicely to the black rubber 
of the bumper without cracking.

One final note.  I hope you like emerald green, 'cause if you are able 
to find a used bumper skin, it will probably be green.  Mind you, you'll 
probably want to paint it anyways.

-Dave



manuel wrote:

>S-Heads,
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>Are all the front bumper skins for the UrS4 and UrS6 interchangeable?  Cosmetically and structurally?
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>Thanks.
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>-manny
>95.5 S6 Avant
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