Front Bumper

[Arthur Veturis Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Arthur Veturis]

If your car works as hard as mine (or if you don't have a bullbar but also like to touch-park or push the car in front of you out of the way...) then check your front bumper fittings on the underside. There are 4 ears with 6mm holding bolts. 3 of my ears had cracked though completely: The bumper was in place, but just hanging from the top supports and "flippin' and floppin'" (to quote Kramer from Seinfeld)...

So I cut some 35mmx50mm plates from 3mm aluminium (don't you just love working with aluminium?) and fitted these to all 4 ears. Broken ears were refitted and sandwiched inbetween in order to keep a tight fit and ensure contact and support for the bumper. I used stainless steel bolts and stainless steel washers - of course...

Now let's get back to work!

[peril Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close peril]

I'm a little confused here, is this the sovereign bar or standard plastic bumper? My GLX Soverign bar 120 had a recall to fit stringer mounts, not sure if this was 'all' 120s? Might be something in this?

And I'm not going back to work, I'm on Long Service Leave

[Arthur Veturis Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Arthur Veturis]

Standard plastic bumper. Here is a photo.

[peril Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close peril]

Ahh huh, so the plastic cracked?