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Old 02-27-2010, 10:14 AM
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I noticed my rear bumper is low on the drivers side. Is there a way to fix this? Here is a pic.
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My bumper has different gaps along the tail panel like it looks like yours does as well. I had my car in for body work about a year ago and I asked about that being fixed as well and was told there is not really anything that can be done with that. The guy told me that is just the way the material these bumpers are made of reacts to the rays of the sun sometimes. It causes the bumper to wrinkle. Here is a picture of my rear as you can see the left side seems higher than the left near the tail panel
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^ Looks alot like the issue I have. It's not a big deal, but I'm picky. lol
I tryed to loosen the bolts and move it. But it didn't really want to move.
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It's not the alignment, it's the bumper itself. Like 1fastz said, it actually wrinkles, causing it to look like that. Any kind of heat will cause this.
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Originally Posted by bowtiebuilder
It's not the alignment, it's the bumper itself. Like 1fastz said, it actually wrinkles, causing it to look like that. Any kind of heat will cause this.
Way to go GM. Now I know it's the norm. So I'll try not to let it bother me. lol
Thanks guys.
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Originally Posted by 1gt2nv
Way to go GM. Now I know it's the norm. So I'll try not to let it bother me. lol
Thanks guys.
X2...if you could find a New one and have it painted and istalled it would look good as long as it was kept in a climate controled garage..but thanks to GM..our cars have a lot of issues!
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Yeah mine kind of does the same thing (but not as bad.)
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thats the number one reason i dont want to do the berger panel...it accentuates the saggy bumper.




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