I just took my back bumper to the body shop today and they butchered the hell out of it. they cracked it is like 3 places i got a few questions please can anyone help me.
1. does the whole metal bar on the back of the car have to come off ? he took it all off
2. there is a 2 inch gap from my trunk to the bumper the whole way .
3. they cracked it in the very bottom trying to push to hard trying tog et it to fit.
4. it is mangled they tryed to tell me that the whole bar bar has to come off i think it is called the rear rebar? i might be wrong but they took the whole dam thing off!
so can anyone tell me how to fix this please it looks like @!#$ right now the body shop i took it to did my front and my side skirts they did a very very good job on them this time i took it to them and he had a kid that works for him put it on and looks like ASS!!! so can anyone please give me a guild on how to get this to fit properly thanks
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they should pay for the damages..
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oh @!#$...i'm not real sure man....get some pics i'm sure someone can help u...
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First tell them they owe you money for a new bumper.
They are right that the plastic or foam absorber on the rear has to totally come off.
The 2 inch gap is fixed by L brackets drilled into the body of the car so that the top part of the bumper has something to rest onto. That eliminates the gap or as we all call it "The Sag"
http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=7&i=281136&t=281123#281136
There is a post explaining what I just said.
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they should pay for the damages
I just took it to a nother body shop they where like
what the hell was this person that did the install thinking he totaly screwed it up he said he will not even touch it he said it looks like it is not going to even be repairable that is how much they screweed it up ..
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First tell them they owe you money for a new bumper.
i am calling the body shop that did ti 1st thing in the morning.
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oh @!#$...i'm not real sure man....get some pics i'm sure someone can help u...
i am getting pics tommrow trust me when i say it that it is BAD!!! it will make you guys with the drift rear bumper cry !!!
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They are right that the plastic or foam absorber on the rear has to totally come off.
i am not talking about teh foam absorber i am talking about the metal reinforcement bar that is under the rubber absorber...
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The 2 inch gap is fixed by L brackets drilled into the body of the car so that the top part of the bumper has something to rest onto. That eliminates the gap or as we all call it "The Sag"
I got a tape measure from teh bottom of the trunk lid to the top of the bumper is about 3 and a half - 4 inches no way no l brackets are going to be able to fix that
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UPDATE!!!!
i also looked closer when i left the body shop every hole they drilled for the screws is cracked, the light above my licens plate does not work no more.
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Here are the pics of the mess the @!#$s at the garage made.
here ya can see every hole the guy drilled for the screws CRACKED!!!
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They are right that the plastic or foam absorber on the rear has to totally come off.
here is the part they took off haha. even though i told them it didnt proble need to come off and i was told is VERY VERY ILLEGAL to have off right now till tommrow when i get it put back on
nother pic of the bar
here is the pic of where the guy tookt eh saw and tryed to cut it to think it would relize the stress haha. stress what stress there is nothing under the bumper to put stress on it it is just hanging there with otut eh bar
i think it would have looked better if he would have used hte l brackets and left the bar on and just cut the part that was needing cut off
Here is a pic of the dumb asses that when i came back to the car from walkignt o the gas station to get a drink they where all laughing about it at the shop i didnt know what they where laughing about till i seen this
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AAAHHHH very sorry about size of pics didnt know they where that big haha
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yea i called the body shop today his voice mail says left town for a week be back next week now got to wait till then to find out what the hell i can get done baout his
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this is simple.
1) make them buy a new rear since they @!#$ up
2) take the crush panel off the rear (not the bar itself) bumper should fit perfectly (minus the sag)
3) once its fitted and bolted on, remove the rear and screw in some L brackets so the bumper has something to sit on in the middle and it will pull it up under the lid.
everything you see in the pics if everything the body shop diod i did not do any of that my self
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I HATE seeing shops do half arsed work like that. Makes me cringe. They messed it up, they need to fix it. If they don't... get a lawyer, sue them for PROPER repair costs and lawyer and court fees. This kind of stuff makes me sick. They obviously have no clue what they're doing.
Where's this shop and what is their name? I see you're from PA also?
Down here in youngwood,pa the shop is called volkers auto body.
The thing is that pissed me off the worse is when i walked to the gas station to buy a drink and came back the owner and his 2 works where standing behind my car laughing they didnt see me i guess i come around was like WTF they laughing about i look down and see the crack and how much of a mes they made i was so so pissed off you would not belive. and the nerv of them laughing about it that is unperfesional in my opinion. it is fiberglass if they seen that it was not going to fit right what was the point of them trying to force it to fit?
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Is there really anything i can get done about this? like if he trys to say hey it was broke when it came into the shop me and my wife know that is was not broken when i brought it into the shop but i am just saying if he trys to pull that line and @!#$ like that. and btw he left town for the week i called him today and left a message on his voice mail and it says left town be back in a week. was like crap
but anyways if he trys to lie his way out of it anything i can do ? someone said contact the bettery buisness burro?
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The Better Business Bureau yes...
And if he tries "it was broke when it came in here"... anyone you know of that seen it NOT broke get them to say so. Their behavior is incredibly unprofessional... and I would definately make sure you mention to the BBB and lawyer how they were laughing and anything else unprofessional they did or said...
Start looking into your options now... get a hold of the BBB, and just call a lawyer and get some advice just in case... then if you actually need him later on... you'll be ready.
From their unprofessional behavior I'd say you could be in for a fight... but they ARE legally obligated to replace or repair anything that was damaged or ruined while in their posession. I've worked in quite a few shops... if we broke anything... we had to replace it... well the shop did... or if we messed something up we had to fix it.
Places like that make me angry.
Proving they did it is pretty easy. Just take the picture of the reinforcement and show the BBB. Then tell they they tried to fit the bumper and that is how they cracked it. So they took this off and yadayadayada. Done deal.
I would be surprised if they don't loose their license doing illegal as crap like taking the reinforcement off of a car to fit a bumper LOL. They did not even ask you if they could.
And firstly they would not have to ask you to do that if they new what they were doing.
yea i am going to get in touch with them i put my rebar back on today and noticed they didnt give me the bolts to hold it on so i had to run to the local hardware store and get some of them also i noticed other @!#$ they screwed up i tryed calling the body shop today but he left out of town for 2 weeks and no one is at the body shop so i cant do anything till i get ahold of him
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i totaly understand how you feel with both parts it like those stupid cops laughing at mine and make absurd jokes which cause me to mess it up(long story) but it anit right for cops should not have done that
UPDATE!!!!
took bumper off
he only had drum roll please
2 BOLTSHOLDING THE BUMPER TO THE CAR
and he never gave me the bolts he took off
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