Damaged the Front bumper and need help
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Damaged the Front bumper and need help
Ok took out a small tree, a curb and 3 rims, front bumper and other little odds and ends under the car I am sure. What I need now is a new front bumper. So I am going to go with the Lorinser DTM front bumper/spoiler. Where would be a good place to buy from?
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well technically it was stupidity. Going a wee fast with another car and came to a corner (long sweeper) and hit a small bump/manhole cover, pitched the back end enough to break loose. Did some high speed rear end swap, but by the time I had in controll I was pointed 30ish degrees towards the curb. Passengers front took a direct hit and totally took it out. Rear bent did not blow and the inside back driver slapped against the curb. As I was up on the curb I hit almost dead star a 3" tree snapped off bumper height. Tree landed in the back seat. Funny thing is I am an arborist and never have use a car to trim or remove a tree in the past and would not recommend it! Body damage was limited to a damaged bumper small dent in hood under star and 3 rims toast. I am taking it into an alignment shop to check under. I will get some pictures up later. Anyone got a bumper? lol my first thought well not first was well now I have a reason to get that Lorinser.
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Hey, I saw your car at Tru-Line today. Sorry about that front bumper. Let me know where you get your new one and how much it costs. I've been considering getting a new one for a while (maybe a Brabus one) but I have a number of gadgets attached to my current front bumper (radar/laser jammer pods) and I want to see if it's worthwhile to make the swap. Nothing wrong with my current bumper except that a couple of the crossmembers are broken (whose isn't) but the middle piece is still in there.
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So what were you doing down there too? Yeah I figure I would take it to the best, man is he good. Anyway I am having him do the repairs under, put on the H&R springs, Kmac front and rear too. The bumper is going to be Lorinser from CarNutz and I think BelRed auto rebuild will do the fit and painting.
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He did an alignment on my car 4000 miles ago and I was going in to make sure the tires were wearing properly.
I had an alignment shop done by another place last year and even though they told me that the "pulling" of the car was normal I had my doubts (a couple of other places told me that a little tramlining was normal too). A year after I had that alignment done the outside edges of my front tires were completely bald. I think Byron told me they pointed the front tires inward too much (snowplowing effect).
I had an alignment shop done by another place last year and even though they told me that the "pulling" of the car was normal I had my doubts (a couple of other places told me that a little tramlining was normal too). A year after I had that alignment done the outside edges of my front tires were completely bald. I think Byron told me they pointed the front tires inward too much (snowplowing effect).
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Yeah the guy really knows his stuff, very detailed. I am very happy I took it there. So were you just getting a follow up on the alignment? Did he charge for that.
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Yeah, my tires were wearing well after 4k miles.
I'm an associate for a practice up in Smokey Point (37 miles one way hence the laser jammer).
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I put one on my hybrid and was getting ready to put one on the 55 before I trimmed that tree with my bumper. What on did you use? I have the M20 for both. Chaps me though before I bought them I was getting
zapped all the time, since then I have not seen a single radar gun to see if it works.
zapped all the time, since then I have not seen a single radar gun to see if it works.
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M20 as well. I just had it installed and have not seen it in action yet. Maybe I'll put one on the A4 if it proves itself useful on the CLK. $399 installed was what I got quoted originally but the day I went in there to have it installed another guy (the owner) told me it would be $550 installed b/c they had to pull my front bumper. I agreed. It took them 5 hours to put in though b/c I have a few other aftermarket goodies in that bumper. The A4 is a lease though so I'm wondering how hard it is to transfer to another car down the road.
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I did mine myself, bought the unit out of PDX for 289 and think it took about an hour or so. But I did a fairly custom install for the light and switch so it looks good. I was holding off on the benz waiting to figure out how to go through the firewall and I did get a response on here that gave me a good local, but I have had issues since then.
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Talk to Blackbenzz.
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Thanks 55 but I got it ordered local, should be here first of next week. Not really how I wanted to go about justifying it but.. hey it will be on.