View Single Post
Old 05-31-2013, 08:05 AM   #23
xjohnx
Grip>Slip
 
xjohnx's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Drives: 13 SWP BRZ Ltd - Innovate Powered!
Location: RVA
Posts: 3,563
Thanks: 656
Thanked 1,717 Times in 1,031 Posts
Mentioned: 45 Post(s)
Tagged: 3 Thread(s)
Quote:
Originally Posted by RallySport Direct View Post
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.
I don't care what they say about Utah, if this works you guys are alright with me! As soon as my replacement fasteners comes in I'm going to give it a try (don't want to risk it with the fragile replacement fasteners i'm using now.) Maybe today with any luck, probably not until Monday though.
xjohnx is offline   Reply With Quote