Our main focus is the manufacture of both replica body kits and individual projects. Fiberglass, DuraFlex, composite materials - there are a huge number of names. But the essence is the same - products created by a matrix method using resin, fiberglass and a bunch of various additives. There is an opinion that such products are fragile, short-lived, frost-resistant. NOT. This may be the case if you order a body kit from China or garage production - where there is a total savings on everything during production. All products that we offer are manufactured only using expensive and time-tested components from leading manufacturers. She is not afraid of frost or high temperatures under the hood. The most important thing is to produce the first color in the chamber at a temperature not higher than 35 degrees - so to speak, for hardening. The main advantage of fiberglass is its maintainability. In the case of minor damage, or even a violation of the geometry with missing elements, it is easy to restore it. But due to the peculiarities of production, such products will almost always require adjustment when installed on a car. Small to global, depending on the quality of the matrix.
ABS plastic or fiberglass - what to choose.
We have already said about the features of fiberglass. Let's now look at an alternative material in the manufacture of aerodynamic kits - ABS plastic - injection molding method. Outwardly and in properties, these products are similar to the original plastic. The same elastic, lightweight, does not require adjustments during installation (if this is not China, again). But in absolutely any case, such products are much higher in price due to completely different production costs. Also, in case of damage, the product is rather difficult to restore, because it loses its structure.
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What do you think: which structural element of a car is most exposed to various hazards? Most likely you answered correctly - this is a bumper. Did you calculate the curb height incorrectly? Was your car an obstacle for a novice driver in the parking lot? “Caught” a deep hole hidden by water? Then you definitely need to order a new bumper. Custom-made bumpers are our topic for today.
The bumper of a car is the most frequently repaired and replaced part. The original elements are not cheap, the Chinese counterparts are an outright "waste of money", moreover, they do not always coincide in size. Therefore, the car owner has only one way out - to order the production of bumpers in the workshop. You can, of course, ride with minor scratches and small chips, but sooner or later the bumper will still have to be changed.
Business brief analysis:
Business setup costs:1 000 000-1 500 000
Relevant for cities with population:from 400,000
Industry situation:the market is not saturated
Complexity of business organization:3/5
Payback: 1.5-2 years
However, replacing the bumper is not always the reason for the spoiled appearance. Often, bumpers are ordered from a tuning studio in order to update the look of the car. Creative body kits that can turn an old car into a luxurious car are ordered very often, so the owners of such a business are provided with work for many years to come.
Starting a custom bumper business is no more difficult than, say, opening a mobile tire service or arranging a hauling in a car. The scheme of work can be represented as follows:
Step 1: project development
Most custom bumpers are strictly custom made. First, the client voices his wishes for a new bumper, then the designer recreates his vision of the bumper, first on a piece of paper, then in special computer programs for working with 3D graphics. After that, the sketch is shown to the customer, and, if approved, is sent to work. If not, then the sketch of the future bumper is being finalized.
All templates are saved. They will be useful as filling for the workshop portfolio, other clients may also wish for the same design elements.
Step 2: design the matrix for the bumper
We don't think you need to explain what the word "matrix" means. Its surface must exactly repeat the shape of the future product. The matrix itself can be made of a solid material - metal, technical plasticine, or a special composite. If the client wanted to install a bumper with complex contours on his car, then the matrix for the manufacture of such a structure is best tinkered with pieces.
Step 3: making the bumper
In order to understand exactly how bumpers are made, no matter front or rear, you need to first find out from what materials they can be made. There are several options:
- Steel... The so-called "power bumpers" are made from it. Usually these can be found on almost any SUV. Moreover, the power bumper is not at all what is called "kenguryatnik" - they are often confused. The manufacture of power bumpers and their installation is permitted by law, if a corresponding record is made in the traffic police about the change in the design of the car.
- Fiberglass... A fiberglass bumper can be made with your own hands in your own garage, but it is better to entrust this business to specialists.
- Plastic... Plastic bumpers are the most common option that can be found on Russian roads.
Let's look at making a bumper using fiberglass as an example, as the easiest way. Fiberglass is cut into certain pieces and placed inside the matrix in several layers. After that, various resins are added as a bond, which give the structure strength. After a while, the bumper can be removed from the matrix and sent to the next stage - painting.
Tip: in order for the workpiece to easily come out of the matrix, use Teflon polish.
Step 4: painting
Bumper painting is the final stage. It is quite difficult to find paint in the color of the car, so often car owners order bumpers of a completely different color. By the way, these cars look quite extravagant.
Who to hire
As the practice of other entrepreneurs shows, the bumper business can be done together. No special knowledge, except for the skills of working with computer programs, is not required for this, all the necessary information can be found on the Internet on your own, or you can get advice on our website.
The workshop can easily fit in a regular garage, which every second car owner has, so there should be no problems with the production area. By the way, you can find out what other business you can do with your own garage.
And finally, I would like to give to everyone who wants to try their hand at private business: do not stop in achieving your goals at the first failure. It often happens that aspiring entrepreneurs give up, being just one step away from success. We hope that this will not happen to you. Good luck!
We bring to your attention a service - production of an individual body kit to order, elements of the exterior and interior of the car made of fiberglass. We offer the manufacture of parts of the aerodynamic body kit from decorative, which improve the appearance of the car, to a purely technical purpose, which maximizes the technical characteristics. Also, we can combine decorative and technical solutions in the manufacture of body kit or parts from fiberglass, thereby obtaining a beautiful appearance and improving aerodynamic performance.
Our studio has a wealth of accumulated experience, due to custom-made a variety of body kits and parts made of fiberglass, allowing you to change the appearance of the car from insignificant, adding several new lines on the bumper giving more style or replacing the bumper trim, to a radical change in the appearance of the body, which is not immediately recognized by experts. Manufacturing a body kit according to an individual project allows you to achieve maximum compliance of the final product with the customer's requirements, design features and nuances of the car, which gives an excellent appearance, no gaps and mismatches of parts.
The main ideal of KV Custom, in the manufacture of body kit, is beauty, and beauty is born from stylishness and high quality.
We work with a range of designers who will create an exclusive and stylish design for your car, from making it more sporty to creating the appearance of a concept car. We will also be happy to work with your sketches or photographs of the desired body kit and implement them as accurately as possible.
When designing and manufacturing a custom-made aerodynamic body kit, all aerodynamic properties of the car are taken into account and all options for improving aerodynamics are calculated, which ultimately improves the stability characteristics of the car on the road.
When making a body kit, at the stage of prototyping parts, we take into account all the features of the car and integrate new elements for a better visual response. All lines are carefully drawn and joints are set. At this stage, you will be able to see the future appearance of your car. At the same stage, aerodynamics are checked and, if necessary, the design is corrected.
At the design stage, during the manufacture of the body kit, all technologies are scrupulously taken into account that allow us to make the perfect part that will perfectly fit into place.
KV Custom has professional craftsmen, modern equipment, high-quality raw materials and highly efficient unique technologies, thanks to which we have achieved high quality in products. We can set any strength or achieve a low weight of the part, which allows us to make a body kit for your lifestyle.
In case you broke the body kit in an accident, we will make it look like it was originally.
Cars leaving the gates of the KV Custom tuning studio are always examples of quality and style, and proudly participate in various exhibitions and photo sessions.
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Any body kit, even a small-scale one, distinguishes the car from a number of conveyor brothers. And what can we say about custom-made body kits? A car with an exclusive body kit can go down in history and surprise more than one generation of tuning fans. Let's figure out who and how makes a custom-made body kit.
Prices for body kits you can find out the finished parts in the auto market, in the department of additional equipment of an auto dealer, on a specialized website on the Internet or from a friend who knows a tuning pirate. They will also calculate the cost of fitting, painting and installation. The advantage of the finished body kit is its relatively low cost and predictable result. The disadvantage of an inexpensive body kit is the low quality of workmanship and fit (the manufacturer saves on the quality and quantity of materials, and the installer saves on fitting time). And only the owners of expensive cars (Porshe, Bently, Ferrary, etc.) can count on an attentive attitude - accurate manufacturing and careful fitting of parts. But the cost of these services is approaching the cost of custom manufacturing.
From a master in ability.
It is not often that an artist becomes a designer, and even less often a designer becomes a layout designer. And for the manufacture of good tuning, in addition to a designer and a breadboard model, a molder, a fiberglass technologist and a locksmith are needed. It is clear that in this situation there are not enough good generalists for everyone.
Any exclusive body kit begins with a discussion of the artistic and technical assignment. If your designer is a good artist, then in a week or two he will prepare a design proposal of two or three options in beautiful drawings. The more the designer is paid, the more beautifully he paints - after all, the customer means that the execution will be as beautiful as the drawing ...
Then the layout designer takes over the work. The best option is when the designer himself sculpts the kit from plasticine, otherwise there will be two trampling on the layout - the designer and the layout designer and the salary must be paid to two. During the sculpting, the model (or designer) must apply his knowledge of fiberglass technology, or invite a technologist for consultation. It is good if the technologist and the molder are one person, otherwise the team grows into a quartet.
The molded body kit can be put in place by a locksmith, although making metal fittings and amplifiers shouldn't be a problem for a good layout designer. As a rule, it is the layout designer himself who adjusts the gaps and levels the surface of the body kit parts, unless a preparatory worker from the paint shop takes over this work. Isn't it all somehow confusing? And if there is no link? Therefore, universal specialists are highly valued, capable of "from scratch", that is, from drawing to developing (test painting in one color) of the installed body kit, do everything independently. And not only independently, but also quickly and at the same time without loss of quality.
I define the speed test as the time it takes to making the front bumper... A good master's work can take from three weeks to a month. The rear bumper is usually more concise in shape (but larger) - a few days faster. Two door sills are produced in three weeks. With arch extenders, depending on their design (for example, a complex closed section), it can take up to a month.
So that I live like this ... and work.
Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to find an executor of your grandiose plans to conquer the tuning podium? I suspect that the point is in the specifics of the work. A good craftsman must have the skills of a sculptor and understand the laws of shaping complex technical objects. Both require a long learning curve, not to mention artistic ability and taste. Multiply these aesthetic goals with the hygienic conditions for their implementation. Can you imagine this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde rolled into one? Now think about how much money you yourself would agree to do this. Salaries are small and therefore in Moscow, for example, there are only a few such tuning “monsters”.
For each customer as required.
But suppose we are not interested in these people in masks and protective overalls. The manager who meets you at the "reception" is also involved in the distribution of income from the sale of your tuning. But what about the profit of the enterprise, and the cost of rent and materials? What about taxes? Okay, I won't talk about sad things.
The price of the work (especially if you are bargaining with the direct executor of the project) can be significantly affected by the complexity of the form of the product itself. For example, the larger the bumper and the more kinks and small parts on it, the longer and more difficult it is to make it. An experienced designer can help reduce the price of work if he offers an effective and at the same time relatively simple body kit. The luxury of boundless imagination can only be afforded with significant funds and time. Deep tuning "in a circle", with the replacement of bumpers, hood, trunk lid, fenders and door linings, can take a team of modellers to work for a period of more than a year.
Count yourself.
Each worker knows roughly how much is paid monthly to specialists in his region. A tuning master, depending on qualifications, earns the same as workers in other fields of activity. The average lead time of a part shows how much an employee is paid for it in a tuning company (relative to his average monthly salary for a deal).
Approximate terms of production of tuning parts on an individual project (without painting):
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1. Front bumper, rear 3 4 weeks
2. Bumper skirt (spoiler) 2 3 weeks
4. Door sills 2 3 weeks
5. Arch extenders 2 4 weeks
6. Rear wing 2 4 weeks
7. Hood 3-4 weeks
8. Wing 2 3 weeks
9. Cilia 2 pcs. 2 days 1 week
10. Replacement of headlights (new housings) 1 2 weeks
If the employee's salary is multiplied by three, then we get the cost of the part for the customer in the tuning shop. For a private tuning specialist, the price of a part for a customer can be one third less than in a specialized company.
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* when using spare parts and consumables of the customer and performing single work with a volume of less than one standard hour, the rule of "minimum order for work" applies.
Prices for other types of work are calculated according to the standards recommended by the MITCHELL catalog.
Prices are in rubles.
Attention!
Cars manufactured before 1997, inclusive, are serviced only after a pre-agreed prepayment.
Diagnostic and locksmith work on cars manufactured before 1997 inclusive are paid according to the actual time spent.
Warranty obligations "Vita-Motors"
Vita-Motors values \u200b\u200bits customers and therefore bears 100% responsibility for all work performed and spare parts purchased and installed in our service. When contacting us for a warranty case, you must be sure to present a copy of the order. In the event that in the near future it is not possible to come to eliminate the defect, and by the time of the visit, the warranty period may expire - you just need to immediately inform us about the problem when a malfunction is detected in order to fix the moment of contact, and of course, depending on the malfunction, try not to operate the car , so as not to aggravate the consequences. For example, an oil leak was found under the car after an overnight stay, and the client flies away on a business trip or on vacation, well, etc.
Attention! "Vita-Motors" does not pay for the work performed in other services, even if the warranty case has occurred far away - we better pay for the evacuation of the faulty car, but be sure that it is our fault. I ask you to treat this issue with understanding, unfortunately, cases of fraud from not decent customers have become more frequent.
You changed this and that, everything broke for me, it was far to you and I fixed something there, I ask you to return the money and / or pay for the repair.
Unfortunately, as the well-known Muller said: You can't trust anyone ... I can (c)
This, of course, does not apply to our old customers or provided that the service that corrected the defect is well known to us for a long time. The main thing to remember is that all problems can be solved. Good luck on the road!
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Services
from 8000 rubles
astera Vita-Motors will design, manufacture and mount any attachments for your SUV:
- Power bumpers (including under the winch)
- Power thresholds of any design and fastening
- Spare wheel brackets (also movable, lockable)
- Expedition racks for any load, incl. with fastening to the power frame of the car.
- Power arcs, headlight brackets, LED beams, etc.
- "Kenguryatniks", or, as many people like to call them - "oslootboyniki" (we do not have kangaroos, but donkeys are full).
- Protection of bumpers and sills.
And much, much more, both according to your sketches and according to the finished catalog of works, depending on your wishes and scope. It is possible to make replicas of power bumpers and other accessories
famous brands such as ARB or Jaos.
The production time on average takes about ten days. Finished parts painting - at choice:
- Powder paint
- Resistant U-pol Raptor coating
- Sustainable premium Line-X finish.
- Automotive enamel. Any colors, at your discretion.
The cost of making a power kit:
- Power thresholds (without mounting) - from 18000r.
- Power bumper (without mounting and platform for the winch) - from 30,000 rubles.
- Power bumper (without installation with a platform for a winch) - from 40,000 rubles.
- Expedition Rack (no installation) - from 12000r.
- Spare wheel bracket (stationary, without installation) - from 8000r.
- Spare wheel bracket (swivel / hinged, no installation) - from 14000r.
In the presented photos, the process of manufacturing a power bumper from 4-mm steel sheet with a hidden platform for a Warn winch, with a Cree LED beam, fog lights and power tubular sills on a Jeep Wrangler JK, as well as power sills with pads on a Dodge Ram.
Everything made by Vita-Motors craftsmen, equipment, including painting, is given a full-fledged guarantee, for equipment installation a lifetime!
The installation of power kits manufactured by Vita-Motors is carried out taking into account the design of a particular car, thanks to this, when using the equipment, you will not worry about the power frame of the car - the load on the elements is calculated individually.
Manufacturing of power body kit for Jeep Wrangler JK
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