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Subject:Re: Front Bumper-Bent From The Factory?
Date:Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:24:09 EDT

In a message dated 3/18/09 4:21:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
t3vanagon@GMAIL.COM writes:

> [Note: Blackbeard is a '90 GL]
>
> When I got him back I noticed that the right-half section of fiberglass on
> the bottom-center was bent down.
> This would be the section that is molded into 2 distinct depressed 'panels'
> (for lack of a better word).
>
> In speaking with the shop owner, I have been told that:
> * Some of the bumpers just came that way from the factory because of how
> they were transported immediately after being molded (they just got bent at
> the factory and installed as-is).
> * It can't be fixed. The only thing that can be done is "trimming" (cutting
> the bent part out).
>
>

odd.  i wasnt aware that fiberglass "bends".
i wish it would, because there would be less cracks in the '99-'91 vanagon
bumpers then.  LOL

chris

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