Oh, wise guy eh?  Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk . . .  I was wondering why the hammer kept
bouncing back and hitting me in the head!  I was fortunate enough that the PO did
me the glorious favor of removing all that extraneous, useless plastic junk.  He
did a wonderful job of breaking those little plastic clips that hold the rubber
part (the actual bumper I guess, hunh?) and lost those cheap plastic ends
altogether!  No telling where the bolts went that actually held the bumper on . .
.

Thanks Chris

Marc Perdue

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> vw van bumpers ...strength???   LOL   hah..!!!  dont you know they're for
> decoration only?
> anyway, if the bumper isnt bent bad, use some wooden 2x4 blocks and a mallet,
> and you can straighten it out quite well.  i straightened lister Karl Bloss's
> '87 van rear bumper with quite impressive results.   fyi, i also have some of
> the rear bumper strips.   ya gotta take the end caps and trim strip off
> before you straighten it, ya know....  ;<)
> chris