Exhausted from researching Sportline bumpers, and still none the wiser !! A little help please ?

[General-Monty]

I’ve spent most of this weekend, searching this forum, researching online, visiting sites, and the outcome is I am virtually no more informed than when I started. I’m feeling a bit fed up if I’m honest.

I would like some answers to simple questions, if anyone feels they can spare the time to help me out please.

I have a 2019 T6 Trendline. I would like to fit a Sportline/Sportline style bumper to the front. I would quite possibly also like to fit gloss black grilles. Here’s the questions I have.

After two days I cannot get a satisfactory answer to this. Is the Sportline bumper just a bottom section which gets bunged on over the top of the existing bumper ? If so, how ? Clips on, sticks on, screws on !?

There’s seems to be dozens of manufacturers, selling dozens of different bumpers, to dozens of different suppliers. How the hell do I determine which item is the best and which to use ?

Is there anywhere selling everything I want as a package, i.e Sportline bumper, gloss grilles, with associated fixings etc.

Can you tell I’m finding it all a bit overwhelming !?

 

[dandan88]

I e got a van x lower sportline splitter, it comes primed ready to paint in your colour choice or pre painted whichever you choose.
I think it’s one of the best ones in the market. The shaped and the contours are very factory sportline looking and also a little honeycomb grill at the front aswell.
Most of the place online all sell roughly the same gloss black grills. I bought the travel-inlite ones. They are good, and good for the money. But like I said they are all much of a much.
Hth cheers

It’s just screwed to the inner arch with a couple of screws on each side or you can buy an additional fixing kit with brackets for underneath etc

 

[General-Monty]

Thanks, but my main question remains unanswered and I just can’t get my head around it.
My Trendline bumper is one single bumper. There is no bottom half to remove and swap for a Sportline bottom half. So what do you do, stick the Sportline bumper on over the top of the Trendline bumper, surely not ?
It’s frustrating me that I just can’t understand what’s going on and no one seems able to explain it to me !
Cheers

 

[The Van Cave]

After two days I cannot get a satisfactory answer to this. Is the Sportline bumper just a bottom section which gets bunged on over the top of the existing bumper ? If so, how ? Clips on, sticks on, screws on !?

The simple answer is yes, it just fits over what is already there.

The Van-X one simply has 2 screws behind the number plate and a couple on each end. It’s a great looking one and good quality and nicer than the original or any other copies. It’s a slightly different shape and with nicer details.

Some will use a bracket kit like the genuine VW one, which again is pretty simple to fit. These look a bit more boxy than the Van-X one though.

If you don’t fancy doing it yourself, we can supply and fit for you.

 

[General-Monty]

The simple answer is yes, it just fits over what is already there.

The Van-X one simply has 2 screws behind the number plate and a couple on each end. It’s a great looking one and good quality and nicer than the original or any other copies. It’s a slightly different shape and with nicer details.

Some will use a bracket kit like the genuine VW one, which again is pretty simple to fit. These look a bit more boxy than the Van-X one though.

If you don’t fancy doing it yourself, we can supply and fit for you.

At last, thanks. It’s literally taken me all weekend to get that answer.

 

[Ads_Essex]

At last, thanks. It’s literally taken me all weekend to get that answer.

Should have asked here first

But in all seriousness, I’ve got the Van-X splitter too and it’s a great fit, the paint colour a perfect match, and as Chris said above it is very easy to fit

 

[General-Monty]

Should have asked here first

But in all seriousness, I’ve got the Van-X splitter too and it’s a great fit, the paint colour a perfect match, and as Chris said above it is very easy to fit

Do you mean the Van X front spoiler ? Isn’t the front splitter the thin black piece you can add on at the very bottom. Honestly this front bumper thing is killing me ! I’m sure it doesn’t need to be this complicated, lol.
Anyway, yes the Van X one looks good but they have sold out and it doesn’t look like they’re getting any more. There is B grade ones, but I don’t want to take the chance of having to get it repainted. Also Van X doesn’t sell the gloss grilles and I don’t think the Travellinlite gloss grilles would fit. Travellinlite do a front spoiler, although it looks a little 'boxy' as previously mentioned, but they sell the spoiler with all the gloss grilles, badges, splitter etc for not a great deal more than the price of the Van X spoiler on its own, although there is obviously painting to add…but it wouldn’t be a B grade.
#startingtowishidkeptthevivaro lol

I e got a van x lower sportline splitter, it comes primed ready to paint in your colour choice or pre painted whichever you choose.
I think it’s one of the best ones in the market. The shaped and the contours are very factory sportline looking and also a little honeycomb grill at the front aswell.
Most of the place online all sell roughly the same gloss black grills. I bought the travel-inlite ones. They are good, and good for the money. But like I said they are all much of a much.
Hth cheers

It’s just screwed to the inner arch with a couple of screws on each side or you can buy an additional fixing kit with brackets for underneath etc

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So your front spoiler is VanX, but all the grilles fitted to it and to the rest of the van, which are gloss, came from Travellinlite ? So the Travellinlite parts fit the Van X spoiler ?

 

[Ads_Essex]

Do you mean the Van X front spoiler ? Isn’t the front splitter the thin black piece you can add on at the very bottom. Honestly this front bumper thing is killing me ! I’m sure it doesn’t need to be this complicated, lol.
Anyway, yes the Van X one looks good but they have sold out and it doesn’t look like they’re getting any more. There is B grade ones, but I don’t want to take the chance of having to get it repainted. Also Van X doesn’t sell the gloss grilles and I don’t think the Travellinlite gloss grilles would fit. Travellinlite do a front spoiler, although it looks a little 'boxy' as previously mentioned, but they sell the spoiler with all the gloss grilles, badges, splitter etc for not a great deal more than the price of the Van X spoiler on its own, although there is obviously painting to add…but it wouldn’t be a B grade.
#startingtowishidkeptthevivaro lol


So your front spoiler is VanX, but all the grilles fitted to it and to the rest of the van, which are gloss, came from Travellinlite ? So the Travellinlite parts fit the Van X spoiler ?

Splitter / spoiler.. in my mind spoilers go on the roof, splitters on the bumper, but yes - as described.

I’ve got TL gloss grilles - not so gloss four years later but that’s cheap Chinese VW parts for you!

 

[General-Monty]

Splitter / spoiler.. in my mind spoilers go on the roof, splitters on the bumper, but yes - as described.

I’ve got TL gloss grilles - not so gloss four years later but that’s cheap Chinese VW parts for you!

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That’s very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to respond, it’s appreciated.

 

[DXX]

@General-Monty your avatar says you’re from Cornwall. Just wondering if you’ve considered the reduced ground clearance with a Sportline splitter because the Highways Department haven’t?