Hennie's Mk1

[Jace]

Great photo! Well processed too.

[Preen59]

Very nice!!!

[Stephy]

You bringing her to C/Town?

[JoshFair]

Yes, c town on june 19th at 11am. be there or be linear.

Oh and sell me your wheels please!

[Henri]

Thanks guys, yeah I reckon I will head up there, would be nice to see all the Tassie VWs.

Pretty gutted though atm cause the other night I came back to my car after having parked for a few hours and found a dent in the front bumper, someone must've bumped into it with their car or something. Luckily the indicator still works. Was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and whether it was easily fixed. Could I just take the bumper off and try to get the metal behind the plastic back into place? Guess it might be worth a try.

Here are a couple of pics.

[Jarred]

ahhh crap. hate it when something like this happens.

no note left I take it??

i'd take it off and try and fix the reo bar, and then maybe the plastic will just sit neater..

[JoshFair]

Heart breaker!! Tassie is absolutely terrible for hit and runs.. real sorry to see this mate!syne u should come to the chrome side of life and get early model bumpers

[Stephy]

That just made me really sad... A heap of that stuff goes on though, and half the time the morons don't even realise they've hit another car! (unless you catch them in the act...)

[Preen59]

Ahh that sucks dude!! Sorry to see that.


Remove the bumper and take the steel reinforcing channel off the bumper. Then try and straighten it as best you can. If you can't get it perfect, you could always put a couple of washers under the low point(s) on the studs between the channel and the bumper to try and even it up..

[JoshFair]

Ahh that sucks dude!! Sorry to see that.


Remove the bumper and take the steel reinforcing channel off the bumper. Then try and straighten it as best you can. If you can't get it perfect, you could always put a couple of washers under the low point(s) on the studs between the channel and the bumper to try and even it up..

Just asked my friends dad (owns bodywork shop in tas) and preen stole the words from his mouth

[Henri]

Yeah there was no note left. Thanks for the sympathy guys, guess there's not much I could do.

Thanks Preen I'll definately give that a go, makes sense that the reinforcing metal should determine the shape of the outer plastic. Will post up once I've given it a go.

[dubai gti]

... half the time the morons don't even realise they've hit another car! (unless you catch them in the act...)

Our Subaru Outback is currently having a new rear bar fitted and sprayed at the local bodyshop...the 95 y.o man was going to walk-off but Bron bailed him up and the result $650 in cold hard cash handed over last night to pay the quoted-repair....'bout bl**dy time as we seem to get knocked every second week and no-one ever leaves notes !!

[TazzyVR6]

I know how you feel, was in Launie the other week and parked my car in the 'secure' hotel parking thinking it would be nice and safe there only to come back to it the next day with a nice white strip of paint about 2" long on the rear wheel arch! Thankfully will polish out!

[roccodingo]

Bit of gentle heat with a heat gun on the plastic when refitting to the reinforcement may help it along also.

[Preen59]

Yeah i was going to suggest putting it in the sun if you didn't have a heat gun.. But winter in Tassie probably isn't that warm. haha.