BUMPER-Repair

front bumper

An automobile's bumper is the front-most or rear-most part, ostensibly designed to allow the car to sustain an impact without damage to the vehicle's safety systems. They are not capable of reducing injury to vehicle occupants in high-speed impacts, but are increasingly being designed to mitigate injury to pedestrians struck by cars. http://en.wikipedia.org






Now, this one is interesting, this is one way to repair a dented bumper. This will only work on the new vinyl type rubber bumpers that are on many new model automobiles. It can save you hundreds of dollars in auto body repair.

 





 Tools Needed: 1. Car scissor-type jack.(see photo below)
2. small piece of wood approx. 2"x3"x1" thick.
3. A monkey wrench.

Procedure1. Crawl under the rear bumper and insert  the scissor jack behind the damaged section.
2. Slowly crank the jack so that the flat base section of the jack is pushing against the internal damaged
section of the bumper.
3. When the jack is wedged inside loosely, insert the piece of wood and position it at the location of the kink, and flushed against the base of the jack.
4. Slowly crank the jack so that the wood is pushing against the inside of the bumper and expanding it outward.
5. Don't over do it but slowly increase the jack so that the kink is freed and the bumper is restored to the
original shape.
6. Don't worry that the shape is not perfect. Let the car sit out in the hot sun for a few hours and the vinyl rubber will slowly return to it's natual original shape.

Here is the picture of the scissor jack.(found in most car's trunk or borrow one from a friend