Got most of a VRX style kit (Pelican Autoparts?) For my 2000 TJ at the wreckers last week for $100 (minus front spoiler - smashed - and driverside wheel arch moulds missing)... have all the clips, brackets and screws for the parts that I have.

Anyone have some advice that will make installing easier and more productive? Im planning to take the bumper moulds off to bolt the spoilers on (well just rear for now) but are the side skirts designed to clip and or screw into pre-existing holes (for the stock skirt/cover) or am I going to need to drill some? No problem drilling but I might need to go back and get some of the white plastic inserts for the screws on the underside of the skirts, if theyre not there now...

Thought id ask before starting, to get an idea of whats involved... rather not drive around with one side skirt on that it took me a day to put on cos I ran out of time, or didnt have the parts I needed lol

Cheers all

for the side skirts ,you will need to remove your current sill mouldings..they are screwed in from underneath and clipped in on the side and double sided tape.

I would go back to the wreckers and get a supply of the side clips ,as ,they are prone to breaking when you remove the sill ones...its basically bolt on

I changed mine over in about an hour

The rear skirt piece also has a 10mm nut you need to undo at the rear, uppermost part of the skirt from within the wheel arch.

+1 on getting as many of those Christmas Tree / push plugs as you can get, as I snapped a whole heap (they had perished over the years) taking the very same kit Maggie3.5 installed on his car off my parts car. It is much 'easier' to replace the whole rear bar skin with the VR-X pods attached, rather than mounting the VR-X kit to a lesser beast's bar (I imagine it involves drilling holes). I say 'easier' because it involves removing heaps of other things too, like the rear muffler to get to the bolts holding the rear reo on, to get the Cortina out to move the Camira, so you can shift the Torana to get to the Commodore.

On a side note, Mitsubishi must have had outsourced the production of at least some of their body parts, as while I was pulling the kit off I noticed the Pelican Autoparts logo too (I only really noticed this on the side skirts, didn't pay too close attention). They all still had their Genuine Parts stickers on them, so they were obviously the real deal.

Thanks for all the replies, went back to wreckers and got a couple of dozen auto clips, good to know the side skirts dont need me to drill new holes! Tried to get the bumper mould off with the rear skirt but some of the bolts were beyond it, rounded, rusted and generally crap... will do that for the front piece if possible though. Yeap heap of holes to drill rear but I figure it saves me having to buy paint to match the upper body. Luckily the kit was the same silver as the Solora silver lower trim... so keeping it two tone.

So are both the one piece rear bumper mould and the bolt on "three piece" rear spoiler genuine parts?

Cheers all