Installation Instructions 1. Armour Bodies First Time User Experience
I am a first-time customer of the Armour Bodies product. I researched the other competitors and watched Brian’s video showing the install and comparison and felt it was a safe choice. My initial unboxing, I was impressed with the quality and very happy with the first impression. No flaws and the primer finish was very clean. The installation for me was not as impressive as my expectations in my head. The parts fit was close but not what I saw in the video and left me having to do a little grinding and a lot of adjustment in the drilling to get it as close and have a nice fit and look. The larger front fairing pieces did not match up as nice as the one in Brian’s demo in the video. There was something off in the mold for sure. But I knew it was not going to be like OEM plastic. The matting tabs that the slip on Dzus fasteners connected to needed to be ground down for them to work. I would recommend using the rivet style not the slip-on Dzus fasteners. They were a pain in the butt and not worth the aggravation. After a lot of tweaking I got it fitted nicely. The biggest issue for me was the primer. I tested several automotive paint vendors and the paint we tested did not want to stick to that primer. I originally wanted to paint it myself with high end rattle can paint that I had custom ordered but the lite sanding and paint it just did not want to stick. I took it to a pro paint shop and we had to sand down the primer that came on fairing and re-prime the body work. This was a waste of time an additional cost I was not expecting. Not sure what type of primer they use but the professional paint shop was not going to use it. All in all I think it is a good product. Would I but it again, I am still on the fence about it. The cost of the fairing and painting it turned out to be more than OEM plastic that I could have ordered with the color and stickers already. Something to consider!
