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RallySport Direct · 05-30-2013, 05:26 PM

Had this same problem. I scratched my head for at least an hour taking the bumper on and off trying to figure it out. Eventually one of the guys here said it felt like something was pushing the bumper down as we could push it in a bit and it would kinda "pop" back out. We tracked it down to the front lower air dam(hard plastic piece under the bumper/radiator) and the bottom of the bumper lip/tabs, we messed with it for a bit until everything lined up perfectly, and voila no more gaps!

Please note we are using the APR Carbon front lip, so we thought that may have been contributing to the problem with getting everything lined up as we had no flex in the bottom of the bumper, but hopefully this may help some of you, or at least give you an idea on where to look.

Thanks!
Rick

Edit, I stole this picture from @DC-FRS, hope he does not mind

The large plastic air dam(#22 in pic) was not sitting right with the lower portion of the bumper and was sort of forcing the bumper down a bit. I had to push, pull, prod, poke, talk nice to, and yell at it until it was all lined up perfectly.

05-30-2013, 05:26 PM	#20
RallySport Direct Join Date: Apr 2012 Drives: 2014 Widebody Cosworth FR-S Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Posts: 4,542 Thanks: 205 Thanked 1,199 Times in 554 Posts Mentioned: 38 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Had this same problem. I scratched my head for at least an hour taking the bumper on and off trying to figure it out. Eventually one of the guys here said it felt like something was pushing the bumper down as we could push it in a bit and it would kinda "pop" back out. We tracked it down to the front lower air dam(hard plastic piece under the bumper/radiator) and the bottom of the bumper lip/tabs, we messed with it for a bit until everything lined up perfectly, and voila no more gaps! Please note we are using the APR Carbon front lip, so we thought that may have been contributing to the problem with getting everything lined up as we had no flex in the bottom of the bumper, but hopefully this may help some of you, or at least give you an idea on where to look. Thanks! Rick Edit, I stole this picture from @DC-FRS, hope he does not mind The large plastic air dam(#22 in pic) was not sitting right with the lower portion of the bumper and was sort of forcing the bumper down a bit. I had to push, pull, prod, poke, talk nice to, and yell at it until it was all lined up perfectly.