Hi, I'm Kieran 22 from Scotland. I bought a 57 plate Fiesta ST 1 year ago and have only done small mods so far which include;

Black and chrome DMB overlays
Aero wipers
Colour coded boot lock cover
Detango'd headlights

This is what my car looked like last week.(needing a wash might I add)



Just around the same time my AP coilovers(2nd hand)



Focus RS MK2 replica alloys,



And 12.5mm axle spacers arrived,



Which were all planned to be fitted to my car this weekend, until this happened yesterday morning.



Which has left me needing a new bonnet, front bumper(with both grills), drivers side fog surround and a drivers side headlight.
I have been non stop on the phone to scrap yards over central scotland without luck of finding any in a decent condition. I have been on eBay and Gumtree searching finding only 2 front bumpers on eBay, one were the lad wanted £375 for it and wouldn't come any lower and one who told me he'd be after £250 + £30 delivery. When I tried to haggle to £225 + delivery he never bothered to reply. If anybody on here could help me out it would be much appreciated, so I can get back on track with making my car look how I want it to.

Ps, hopefully I have uploaded these photos correctly. First time using it.

Welcome mate! Sorry to see the bad luck Pictures are fine though!

Welcome to the site, making a good start on the mod front! Shame its being held up now tho

Welcome to the site mate

Welcome again buddy

That is a right old mess, what actually happened.......??

Hope ur mate is coughing up some £££'s

If you want to hear the stupidest thing anybody had ever done here it goes, gave my mate a shot of my car as he is interested in getting one himself. So we were heading down the the jet wash along some back roads close to his home. I took his car as it was needing a quick wash as well. Anyway, it is a one track road with a few bad turns and at one stage I had came round a really tight corner to find a minibus on coming, the way the road was I had to come to a complete stop to allow the minibus past, whilst my friend in my car came round the tight corner and never seen me stopped dead until it was too late and bumped the back of me.

So basically, I gave my mate a shot of my car and he crashed into his own car. Like is said the stupidest thing ever.

Yes he is paying the bill, although as a close friend I'm trying to source the parts as cheap as I can.

So moral of the story is nobody will ever be driving my car again except me.

Oh dear, is his car damaged too then, sounding expensive all this........!!!

His car only has a small hairline crack along the back bumper, how it with stood the bump so well is beyond me. As long as I can get my hands on the parts I'll be able to fit them myself but I reckons it's still going to be £350+ at his end.

Oh it'll be all of that mate.....

oh eck unusual introduction, keep searching for the parts am sure someone can help on here, if you get any from gumtree or ebay probably off someone elses car..................

Hey Kieran! Welcome to the site

Sorry to hear about your car

Hi Kieran, welcome to the site but sorry to see about the accident.

I didnt know the bumpers cost that much!!! Your car ended up in a better state that my first st when I let a mate drive

Hello and welcome

welcome, sorry to hear about the bad luck

Finally managed to get a hold of a bumper and bonnet, and got the coilovers and rs reps on. This is how it's looks just now.


The only bother I have is the bonnet I got had 2 stripes up the middle of it, which I managed to remove with some heat, but a lot of the glue has been left behind. Any pointers on how to remove it?

Try and whipe it over with vodka, worked when i removed my small stickers. Also im not usually a fan of the RS reps but yours really look good in that pic

Cheers mate, I'll give it a bash later on

Looking good buddy, Autofinesse do an awesome Tar n Glue remover, it's superb

Have a look > http://shop.autofinesse.co.uk/oblitarate-500ml

ive used olive oil before as well, thought it was ridiculous recommendation but it did work surprisingly.

Wheels look cool... Quite a lot of spokes to clean though, heh.

I took off my ST badge yesterday and tried kitchen cleaner, whiskey and WD40 to remove the glue, but after they failed, I ended up using white spirit.

Wow that's gonna leave a headache

Which one worked the best?

None of them really worked other than the white spirit.
I think it was mainly due to me just pulling the badge off by hand which left loads of the backing foam behind so the solvents couldn't get to the actual glue.

Metal scraper would of done the job...

Clay it and it will come off!

Thanks for the advise. I eventually used petrol and it dissolved the glue right off.