My brother bumped my car when pulling out of the driveway and knocked my front bumper right off. Has anyone else had to reattatch thier front bumper to the mounts? What kind of adhesive should I use? I was thinking maybe weatherstrip adhesive.
Steven, I'm sorry, I meant to ask what happened to the car your brother was driving (that knocked your bumper off). Glad you got a bit of profit though, even if the car was totalled (at least you're selling it for parts now). By the way, did you get my MO already? TY [Stevenpfaff - 2/17/2005 2:27 PM
The other car was taken out of service by a 20 year old girl who decided she didn't want to wait her turn to be on the road. I was approaching an intersection with a red light at about 40-45 mph while this girl was sitting at the driveway to a bank, about 30 yards before the intersection, and just as I was about 10 feet from her she pulled out without even looking. The funny part about it is, I saw her look to my direction when she came up to the end of the driveway so I assume she knew I was coming her way. Maybe she forgot? She told the police officer that another guy in the lane next to me had stopped a little ways back to give her room and then waved her out, so she thought it was ok. It sucks that the car was totalled in the collision, but neither of us were hurt and I made out like a bandit. I had a small fender bender a couple weeks earlier when another lady decided she wanted her car to occupy the same space as mine, the laws of physics obviously strictly prohibit this, so she changed lanes and bumped my fender scoring me $1000 from the insurance company. That $1000 put me even on the car so the $2650 that I got from the second accident was pure profit, which I used to purchase my GoldWing and take a little cycle trip to Kentucky, among other things.
I look forward to the parts. I do hope the MO arrives sooner. It's going to rain next week (so they say) so I might save the brake light mod for some other time.Stevenpfaff - 2/18/2005 4:23 PM
Karugs, I didn't get it yet, so I expect it tomorrow. I will have your parts in the mail Monday afternoon.
My brother was driving a pickup with a steel bumper and supposedly didn't hit my car very hard. There was so much corrosion on the inside of my bumper that I figure it was ready to actually fall off on it's own pretty quick so it's probably a blessing in disguise that this happened. Needless to say, my car was the only one that suffered any damage. There isn't even a mark on either bumper.
It's a good thing all these were other drivers or I think I would just have to turn in my drivers liscense. All three of those, two bumps and the major accident were back in July and August, but all within a three week period. First it was the little fender bender, then the big one, then, while I was enjoying my motorcycle ride to Kentucky, my brother called me to let me know he hit my parked car and "the bumper looked funny." You can imagine after the other two accidents with the other car I was not too happy about that. I swear I had a bullseye painted on me somewhere because the day after the big accident, I had two near misses with people pulling out in front of me. I sure am glad that trend died out.karugs - 2/18/2005 8:00 PM
I look forward to the parts. I do hope the MO arrives sooner. It's going to rain next week (so they say) so I might save the brake light mod for some other time.Stevenpfaff - 2/18/2005 4:23 PM
Karugs, I didn't get it yet, so I expect it tomorrow. I will have your parts in the mail Monday afternoon.
My brother was driving a pickup with a steel bumper and supposedly didn't hit my car very hard. There was so much corrosion on the inside of my bumper that I figure it was ready to actually fall off on it's own pretty quick so it's probably a blessing in disguise that this happened. Needless to say, my car was the only one that suffered any damage. There isn't even a mark on either bumper.
Glad that nothing else happened with your little bump. Seems like you're bumping into all sorts of things lately--the totaled '82, your bumper, and another one I couldn't remember exactly []
When I too had a little bump from behind, my car suffered no damage. The bumper now has two marks that resemble license plate bolt heads. But in time I will slowly clean it off until it's gone.
Drive carefully.[]
Gauge, I owe you a MAJOR appology. My bumper did have the set of brackets you were talking about. The had broken off from the corrosion of the bumper. I hadn't looked at the bumper in a while and the rubber mount that tore on the other car was due to the bumper being pushed so hard to the side that it tore the stop nubs on the inside of the mount. You were right, I will make sure next time that I take another look at my problem before I go spouting my mouth about something I obviously knew nothing about.[:I]guage - 2/18/2005 12:05 AM
There should be a pair of L brackets for each
rubber shock mount. 4 total pieces that look like a L. You have too unbolt the three
nuts holding the rubber shock on to the frame of the car and then slide the rubber part with the shock between the 2 L brackets. Each shock/rubber mount.
1&2 drivers side mount
3&4 passenger side mount
I do extend the same apology to you also though Alfa. I hadn't looked at the bumper since it was knocked off in August and just didn't remember seeing where the bottom brackets had broken off. I did glue the bumper to the rubber mounts for now with weatherstrip adheasive which will hold fine till I buy a used bumper. I will have to take a look at the inside of the other bumper and see if the brackets are intact, maybe I can use that one.Stevenpfaff - 2/18/2005 4:25 AM
I'm not drilling through my bumper.