Hello-

Not too long ago a tow truck driver was so nice as to rip my bumper clean off, and tore the tab where it connects to the fender.



I was thinking about getting some quick release fasteners to hold it on at the fenders, something like this:



Or some Dzus fasteners



Has anyone had any experience with either of those?

I took them from http://www.pegasusautoracing.com .

 

Id just mount (rivet) a strip of something across the torn spot and add a new hole
Better than pop clips that people can play with

 

WTF is wrong with tow truck drivers, its been 20+ years since you could tow a car by the bumper.

 

i had the same problem.

 

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He might of had the sling type tow where sometimes because a car is lowered, hits the sling while lifting it up. Thats the kind of tow truck I drive and it sucks to lift lowered cars and even some stock cars too. You dont actually tow it by the bumper but the sling hit it going under it so the arms can hit the suspension which is what you tow by.

 

what you do is grab a scrap peice of sheet metal rivet it over the whole drill a new hole into the sheetmetal and you should be fine i rigged a whole new arm to hold the plastic peice on my CRX

 

^^^^^ go with what he said

you can also get in there and just drill sheet metal screws up through the bumper and fender from the underside like where your hole is ripped. this will also take care of the saggy eg bumper syndrome

 

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Isnt that what I JUST said??

 

Or another solution which is what I did. Get yourself an 11mm bolt and use some oversized washers to help eliminate the gap that was caused by the missing piece. This should do the trick nicely.

 

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Better than pop clips that people can play with</TD></TR></TABLE>

I did something similar to this using a piece of sheetmetal and I havn't had any problems with it at all.
I sandwiched the messed up part with 2 pieces of sheetmetal that bolted together and drilled a new mounting hole. It cost me about 2 bucks just for nuts and bolts.


Modified by s.patel at 11:48 AM 6/7/2005

 

Awesome, thanks for all the ideas fellas.

Ima go ahead and do this ^^^ and rivet it to the underside of the bumper.

Thanks again! YAY for no ugly quick release latches!