Starbug

I did a search for restoration of the front bumper cover, and turned up ways to fix a crack or hole in the bumper cover. I have some holes to fill, so they were good reading. But I have another problem....

The top middle of the front bumper cover, just to the side of the bird sticker, has a slight dent as if somebody sat on it. Is it possible to fix a dent (sagging?) in a urethane bumper cover? I'm wondering how it might respond to a heat gun and then cooling it in the proper shape. Has anyone tried this, and did it retain it's back-to-original shape after the summer sun hit it?

Thanks!

camarotucker

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https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/body...g-bumpers.html

hotrodln

i read that link and i didn't see MY solution on there....maybe somebody else did it too, who knows? but what i did was take the bumper cover OFF, turn it up side down , rough up the area that was sagging ( back side only) and Glued a piece of aluminum plate to it with high strenght epoxy....while it was setting up i put a 30 pound dumb bell on it...i did one side per night....so it gets nice and flat on your floor......now it CAN'T sag..mine looks good now for the last 4 years or so.....

camarotucker

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If you use heat to move it back into place, as soon as it gets hot outside the sag will return. The basic idea in the thread is to somehow make a rear reinforcement for it. Another solution would be to use plastic glaze (filler), however, this would require a repaint.

Starbug

Cool, thanks guys! You must have used a better search term than I did, lol. Looks like an aluminum reinforcement is the way to go with this problem.

Home Depot, here I come....