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b0x
05-30-2002, 04:57 AM
DAMMIT, not even a month as gone by and i need to fix my front bumper arleady! I'm so pissed! And its like 5 am in the morning!

I went with my friend to one of his friends house. I decide to park in the driveway and it goes up fine. no scratching at all. So when we leave, i hear REALLY loud scratching, like something was stuck for a second. I go outside and take a look ... the pasenger side of where there is a hidden 10mm bolt go loose, and is sticking out. I didnt have a socket wrench with me so i say i'll fix it when i get home.

So i get on the freeway and everything is ok. Half way down the road i hear a THUMP! at first i thought it was my bumper but the sound was only heard for a second. So i drive and decide to get off the freeway... as i'm exiting i hear SCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCCCCCCHHHHHH... The more i drive the more it scratches. It was a 1 lane exit with no emergency lane so i couldnt stop and get out to look around. I pictured my front Kaminari bumper being totally destroyed! and at this point i'm constantly yelling outloud "****!!!"

I finally get off the freeway and pull into the very first residential street i see. I quickly get of the car. I look at the front... The bumper is ok! So what was the damn scratching from then? I look under the car.... the undercarriage plastic that used to be connected to the front bumper is folded back, sliding on the floor!!! I was like OMFG! So i pushed them back up into the bumper.... That was the best i could do till i got home.

Well now my passenger side of the front bumper doesnt fit right, and the plastic pieces under my front bumper arent even connected to the damn bumper! God dammit!!!! This ruined my whole night! I hope it wont be hard to fix... I'm gonna tyr calling Joe up at wetworks and see what he can maybe do about reinstalling the front bumper... this really sucks... Im really low on funds too :[ It was my gf's bday yesterday ... $(%!&^$(!&$!%!

I'll get pictures up tomarrow monring... >:[

warpig
05-30-2002, 11:10 AM
Damn Bro I feel for you --- good luck --- hey by the way did you get your exhaust extended?

eccentricGTSdvr
05-30-2002, 11:54 AM
Sorry about that BOX but your car looks like mine i have the kaminari frn, back and ww sides. if your frnt is urethane its going to be hard to fix. good luck man.

MidnightKraze
05-30-2002, 01:14 PM
The same thing happened to my car, I know what your going through. Except my plastics under car got so messed up that I had to take them off and now the bumper is just being held by the bolts on top. I also went to the Dealership to find out what the prices were for all three plastic pieces under car and they cost $256. Too much.

b0x
05-30-2002, 04:46 PM
Damn. Good thing my plastic pieces were still intact... But hey - GOOD NEWS !!!

i spent most of the day fixing the bumper. and plastic pieces underneath. The MAIN was this:

http://4sided.com/damn2.JPG
when the bumper got pulled downwards, it pulled the bolt too. So this is what happened. So i took off the blue piece and use a needle nose plier to straighten out the metel.

The second problem was that the plastic holder piece that used to be on the passenger side of the car broke off... I ended up superglueing it back on... (Ghetto, i know)
http://4sided.com/damn1.JPG

and the last thing was the plastic under the car. It flew under the tow ring thing... so i had to adjust that.
http://4sided.com/damn4.JPG
http://4sided.com/damn3.JPG

All in all, it wasnt that bad. And im sooo happy i fixed it. I was seriously scared and pissed as hell last night.

Oh and I really appreciate everyones reply. Thanks guys. :)

nccelica
05-30-2002, 10:28 PM
you can buy those plastic things on the fenders for $6 each from toyota... when i was getting my car inspected they ripped my front off and broke both of those white pieces and bent the hidden bolt