View Full Version : Rear Bumper for TJ VRX
lancer-magnavrx
20-10-2015, 03:43 PM
Hi all I am new here, I am after a rear bumper for a TJ VRX can anyone help? I am located in Toowoomba Queensland can pick up in Brisbane or could pay for shipping for the right bumper. My VRX is a recent purchase off a one owner man that was strangely I would assume to be around 60 years old. The car has 120,000klm on it and in really good nick apart from a few little things like the rear bumper has a little damage nothing major but I am little OCD and would like to find a bumper in good condition to replace it. My VRX is silver in colour I believe its called pewter.
If the bumper isn't cracked then it is easily repairable.
A reputable smash repairer with an eye for detail will more than satisfy your OCD itch.
They'll remove it, apply heat to reform it, sand it back, prep & respray the entire unit, then re-fit.
I did this with the front bumper of my old TJ magna when a careless idiot driver backed into it, then drove off.
I did what I just mentioned above & it was a perfect colour match & looked new & only cost me $250 but that was back in 2006.
lancer-magnavrx
21-10-2015, 04:04 PM
Thanks for your reply ADM, I will take it to one of the better bodyworks in Toowoomba that do plastic repairs and see what sort of dollars they will sting me. Some of the tabs running along the bottom of the bumper that hold the vrx kit on are broken off. Do you know if that's something that can be fixed by plastic welding new ones on?
Plastic bumpers that are mearly deformed and scratched/scraped are a fairly straight forward repair.
Cracked or broken bumpers on the otherhand not so.
9 times out of 10, if it is something that was molded onto a bumper that breaks off, smash repairers generally just replace the entire bumper.
In the instance of cracked or broken off parts of a plastic bumper, it might be just as cost effective to replace it.
It would be repairable of course, it just depends on whether the time & labour involved justifies the expense. Plus it may not go on with the same exactness of fit once repaired, hence replacement.
barryb
27-10-2015, 04:24 AM
I had my tabs welded so I could fit foglights to my TL, repair was quite good .
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