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Note, when I installed mine, I took the bumper shocks off completely. The front and rears are just bolted to the body panels. They're so light, this is not a problem (unless I hit something), and it saves you 20 lbs...as I think each one is 5 lbs...or it could save you 10 lbs if each pair was 5 lbs, I don't recall.
I could paint them with a spray can these days with the practice I've had. The main concern there is getting the paint gun/can up close to the panel after it's been sanded with 400 and putting the paint on horizontally in long overlapping strokes that start beyond the panels themselves.
If you're painting when they're on the car, you'd put some cloth over the wheel wells and start painting on the cloth and move the stroke slowly around the front bumper for example. This is the thing I didn't do that caused me to have to redo the doors when I painted my car. Not doing this long even stroke method will make the paint look wavy from way back at an angle even though, EVEN THOUGH, you may have sanded all of the orange peel out.
It's amazing to me how many things have to be right for things to get painted right. Looking back at the job they did on my car for 1500 bucks I'm just amazed at how easy they made it seem when in fact, it's just so hard to do right. Sorry about this "painting tangent" once again, but I am still going over places here and there and getting things just right, so it's always on my mind!
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