DIY rear bumper repair woo(sucks to be you 56k bahaha)

[sr20deTsomeday118]

ok guys, a few months back my rear bumper got in a nasty fight with an electric pole and turned my emaculate bumper into this...



so now that its a little warmer here in chicago, i wanted to get this thing repaired. me and my dad decided to take it off to observe the damage done to the rear reinforcement and the results were not pretty.



so as we looked on in disbelief on the damage i had a great idea on how to remove the rather large dent in the reinforcement..(see below)



This pic shows where the damage was and how much it pulled out. overall it came out about 2 1/2 inches just from slowly bending it forward while tied to a tree

as for the bent bumper cover we decided, sice it is plastic, to just heat it and bend it back to its normal place, all we did was boil a pot of water and pour it on the cover to make it soft and then clamp and mold it till it looked almost perfect.



Before

After!!

Overall a great improvement, my tails are back to flush with the rear of my body and the bumper has so much less of a dent im astonished at the results myself. any questions feel free to ask.

oh and the total cost of this project was about 40$ for the jb weld for the tail bolts that broke loose and the new piece of foam for the bumper. Better than paying almost 400$ for brand new stuff from the dealer and 200$ from a junkyard for everything!!

[srpowered240sx]

nice little fix. ive used the old tree and rope method before too, but i used a come-along to pull the radiator support straight on my brothers old altima.

[darens13]

that looks so, so much better than that nasty dent!

[elcruzmissle]

that tree pic is gauranteed to be someones sig on here soon

[sr20deTsomeday118]

haha yea that tree part was fun, even though i though i was going to rip off the back half of my car each time i drove forward

[ScrapMetal]

Genius, simply genius!

[slow40]

shade tree body shop much respect. good job

[silpena]

nice work man but i have to say i would replace the rear bumper support...next u get into a light hit it'll be more like a big hit and u wont be so lucky other than nice work. most ppl wouldn't bother to fix it.

[snwbrdr435]

haha way to use your head to save yourself a couple bucks now its time for a slam you 4x4in

[thefro526]

Nice work, just another reason to be a tree hugger, eh?

[sr20deTsomeday118]

yes, coils are coming with my refund check, it will be teh sex

[E7-S14]

lol nice

how much for bumper supports from junkyard?couldn't be that much

[sr20deTsomeday118]

well when i originally went to the junkyard they charged me 35 just for the foam...when i asked them how much they wanted for the reinforcement they ballparked it at 135...just for the reinforcement. i think my way was a better investment

[xx240Fox21xx]

How did you go about clamping it? Got any pictures of that? I have a nice banged up side from a hit and run. My thread is somewhere on here, I boiled some water and threw it on mine and stood on it for a good half hour and it worked a little bit, looks a lot better now. So how did you clamp it?

[sr20deTsomeday118]

i used a total of 4 clamps and on 2X4 piece of wood.the clamps go on either side of the wood and each end and also 2 on the top and bottom

[Flicktitty]

Someone needs to photoshop

KA POWER! USE THAT TRUCK MOTOR TORQUE!

[xx240Fox21xx]

Awesome thanks Someday

[sr20deTsomeday118]

not a problem

[Kalypso]

How do you cure lip sag, on a silvia turbo bumper? this is an old photo but its saggin a lot worse now.

and the bottom is f*cked up

any ideas

[E7-S14]

any ideas

ur front end sits weird.... left sides off..makes everything else look weird..

as far as ur bumper..try heating it up and setting it str8..

too much heat nd you'll b looking at repainting...

[sr20deTsomeday118]

it is plastic so do wat i did and just use hot water!!, no paint peel from that

[Kalypso]

boiling water sounds like the trick

I am going to heat it up and press a board against it, so it straigtens

[sr20deTsomeday118]

pics of how it goes!!

[simmode1]

When I saw this pic, I thought to myself, "If his KA pulls that tree out of the ground, I'm gonna die laughing..."

[Kalypso]

sure

ill do it right here

[Kalypso]

I did it, a full write up is on the way

[sr20deTsomeday118]

I did it, a full write up is on the way

this will help the many who are seemingly plagued with the sag, including me because i hope to the silvia conversion soon! btw, loving the brick lights, they are teh sexx

[Kalypso]

this will help the many who are seemingly plagued with the sag, including me because i hope to the silvia conversion soon! btw, loving the brick lights, they are teh sexx

zerothread/348150

its done - let me know what you think

[megaderk]

im in an identical situation with my coupe. same story and damaged in the same spot but on the left side. i need to attempt this but how did you get the bumper off?i removed those 4 bolts i always here of in the bottom of the trunk, and as for the 5 in the fenders that are attached to the bumper, those were ripped out of the bumper.

with all those out, the bumper still wouldnt budge.

[Kalypso]

check again, you're missing one