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Title: not a particularly good day
Post by: Jay w on 03 February 2008, 19:53:00
After doing an oil and filter change yesterday and breaking an already fragile Knock sensor wire i had also decided to have a look as to why my front bumper was misaligned.

Took it off (not difficult) and found this....

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on the rear of the bumper it had been plastic welded and then fillered.

Half an hour later and some mild heat the bumper is now sat correctly, it's off to the bodyshop as soon as the rear spoiler arrives.

the grooves you can see on the bumper are where the bonnet has rubbed

If they had spent half an hour more in the first place....... >:(
Title: Re: not a particularly good day
Post by: waspy on 03 February 2008, 19:59:48
Bodge artists at their worst  >:(
Title: Re: not a particularly good day
Post by: tunnie on 03 February 2008, 20:00:30
its been on a front end prang in its previous ownership?
Title: Re: not a particularly good day
Post by: zippo on 03 February 2008, 20:02:16
bodge it and scarper
Title: Re: not a particularly good day
Post by: Jay w on 03 February 2008, 20:05:41
having beaten the carp out of it in order to straighten it out it must have been s low speed impact on something sharp.

everything else is fine, i took the bar off and it seems to have bourn the brunt of it, the washer bottle has a few kinks in it but it will live ;D

i should have god some pics done of it when it was finished, will do them once she has been down to the paintshop
Title: Re: not a particularly good day
Post by: Dazzler on 03 February 2008, 20:29:02
Glad to see its all being down properly Jay :y
Title: Re: not a particularly good day
Post by: STMO123 on 03 February 2008, 20:30:59
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having beaten the carp out of it in order to straighten it out it must have been s low speed impact on something sharp.

everything else is fine, i took the bar off and it seems to have bourn the brunt of it, the washer bottle has a few kinks in it but it will live ;D

i should have god some pics done of it when it was finished, will do them once she has been down to the paintshop
 

There was a fish in there????? :o
Title: Re: not a particularly good day
Post by: ffcgary1 on 03 February 2008, 21:07:35
Jay that bumper iron looks differant to the one i gave you, is it????
Title: Re: not a particularly good day
Post by: Jay w on 04 February 2008, 09:02:12
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Jay that bumper iron looks differant to the one i gave you, is it????

yes mate it was, was gutted as i was hopeing to do a swap and save the hassle of hammering hell out of the old one