Rear Bumper, adjustment?
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Rear Bumper, adjustment? Ever since I took delivery of my car, I noticed that the rear bumper fits like ***. The gap between the bumper cover and the CAMARO tail panel is thin in spots and wide in others. It looks like it went to a cheap *** body shop and they used a reproduction part that was made in a sweatshop in freakin Mozambique or something.
Is there a way to adjust this so it doesn't look like an ill fitting import replacement piece of **** part? And no, it wasn't ever hit or damaged. It just fits like crap, like alot of the rest of the car...just that the rear bumper is pretty prominent <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Any help would be appreciated. I don't mean to sound like an *******, but I am real fussy about my car, and when buying new, lack of quality control is a huge slap in the face...
<small>[ April 02, 2002, 12:38 PM: Message edited by: Xsta Z 28 ]</small>
Is there a way to adjust this so it doesn't look like an ill fitting import replacement piece of **** part? And no, it wasn't ever hit or damaged. It just fits like crap, like alot of the rest of the car...just that the rear bumper is pretty prominent <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Any help would be appreciated. I don't mean to sound like an *******, but I am real fussy about my car, and when buying new, lack of quality control is a huge slap in the face...
<small>[ April 02, 2002, 12:38 PM: Message edited by: Xsta Z 28 ]</small>
Re: Rear Bumper, adjustment? They all fit like that, you can see the little lip from the bumper that looks like it is supposed to tuck in where the "camaro" is right?
I don't know man, it's normal unless you want to take it off, see how it is installed and fiddle from there.
I don't know man, it's normal unless you want to take it off, see how it is installed and fiddle from there.
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Launching!
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Re: Rear Bumper, adjustment? I know the lip is supposed to be there...that isn't my gripe...
My problem is the fact that the bumper itself fits like crap, and that the "lip" had wide and tight spots, and generally fits like *** across the back...
The only reason I posted this was to see if anyone already knows if there's any room to play around with the adjustment up there, because I haven't had a chance to get under there and study it yet...
<small>[ April 02, 2002, 08:02 AM: Message edited by: Stuart S ]</small>
My problem is the fact that the bumper itself fits like crap, and that the "lip" had wide and tight spots, and generally fits like *** across the back...
The only reason I posted this was to see if anyone already knows if there's any room to play around with the adjustment up there, because I haven't had a chance to get under there and study it yet...
<small>[ April 02, 2002, 08:02 AM: Message edited by: Stuart S ]</small>
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Launching!
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Re: Rear Bumper, adjustment? I just took a picture that kinda shows what I was talking about...
<img src="http://www.fbody.com/members/TransAm87WS6/gapshow.jpg" alt="" />
<small>[ April 20, 2002, 04:30 PM: Message edited by: Stuart S ]</small>
<img src="http://www.fbody.com/members/TransAm87WS6/gapshow.jpg" alt="" />
<small>[ April 20, 2002, 04:30 PM: Message edited by: Stuart S ]</small>
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Re: Rear Bumper, adjustment? </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Stuart S:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by quik 99SS:
<strong>Welcome to American cars, hehe. Made for pure muscle, nothing else!!!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Funny....neither my '87 Trans Am or my old '89 GTA or my old '86 IROC-Z had any problems like this... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
...I guess that's what you get when you buy new...lol</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Compare it to the BMW's and Mercedes, where 99% of the time you won't find a body panel out of place.... Rumor is that each screw in the interior has a rubber gasket. Just goes to show where the emphasis is, that is all. Most of the time when you are dealing with this composite stuff, stress bends will happen.
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by quik 99SS:
<strong>Welcome to American cars, hehe. Made for pure muscle, nothing else!!!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Funny....neither my '87 Trans Am or my old '89 GTA or my old '86 IROC-Z had any problems like this... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
...I guess that's what you get when you buy new...lol</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Compare it to the BMW's and Mercedes, where 99% of the time you won't find a body panel out of place.... Rumor is that each screw in the interior has a rubber gasket. Just goes to show where the emphasis is, that is all. Most of the time when you are dealing with this composite stuff, stress bends will happen.
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Re: Rear Bumper, adjustment? </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by quik 99SS:
<strong>Welcome to American cars, hehe. Made for pure muscle, nothing else!!!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Funny....neither my '87 Trans Am or my old '89 GTA or my old '86 IROC-Z had any problems like this... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
...I guess that's what you get when you buy new...lol
<strong>Welcome to American cars, hehe. Made for pure muscle, nothing else!!!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Funny....neither my '87 Trans Am or my old '89 GTA or my old '86 IROC-Z had any problems like this... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
...I guess that's what you get when you buy new...lol
