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Completely broken bumper tab & rear bumper tab scraping wheels

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Old 10-26-14, 01:17 AM
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Default Completely broken bumper tab & rear bumper tab scraping wheels

Rear fitment is on point but there's no point in this car if I can't get up my own driveway without having gouges into my lip

So I broke my bumper tab completely after putting on my new wheels and attempting to go up by driveway. Also, there's a part of my fender that isn't rolled and idk if it can even be rolled since it's so close to the bumper tab bolt area. Let me know if there's any solutions. I don't want the quick release thing.



Old 10-26-14, 09:08 AM
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What if the quick releqse is your only option hahahahaa
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So if the rear bumper tab is in the way, grind it away like what I hope you did on the fronts.

On the fronts, did you break-off the mounting location lip of the bumper in the incident? If you did, either fix it, get a new bumper, or a "quick-release". Perhaps you didn't grind enough away or don't have enough front camber? I liberally grinded mine away when in there, even if my wheels/tires are not that aggressive. Just safes me down the road just in case I go that route.
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First off, it looks like the wheels came out sick and fitment is dope. Can you camber the rear more to tuck the wheel in? If you want that look. You may not be able to drive up driveways with that fitment. Just FYI. My front started coming off and I cut as much of that ran off and drilled a new hole and zip tied it. That worked the best. Nice GS in the background off the pic too. Good luck.
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So in that last pic (judging by the "carpet-like" liner) it appears all of this happened to the REAR wheels and bumper, NOT the front...correct?
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Originally Posted by Gville350
So in that last pic (judging by the "carpet-like" liner) it appears all of this happened to the REAR wheels and bumper, NOT the front...correct?
Yeah that's the rear bumper. Where the quarter panel and rear bumper meet. It's hard to roll that area. I'm straight up stumped right now. Not sure what to do
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What are the specs on those wheels?
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