Re: Euro-Bumpers?

["William Slayton Jr." <c-man@email.msn.com>]

The bumpers on my '83 Scirocco have some brackets that hold only the
plastic bumper skins on with no actual metal .
The guy that owned it before me did this I quess to save weight.
Carl

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> From: Jason Brunberg <stoopid@idirect.com>
> To: T Jarrett <shikaroka@juno.com>
> Cc: scirocco list <scirocco-l@privatei.com>
> Subject: Re: Euro-Bumpers?
> Date: Wednesday, April 17, 1997 2:46 PM
> 
> > I considered that but wouldn't that require welding the nuts back on
the
> > mount in the new position. I thought of doing this, if I could get a
set
> > of the new style bumper mounts, the ones without the shocks, mine has
the
> > bumper shocks which you can't cut. 
> 
> 	Are you trying to tell me that your bumper arms are actually shock
> absorbers?  I've heard it said that people will "drain the fluid from
> the shocks, push the unit together, and spot weld it together".  My car
> has only steel arms that connect the bumber to the car.
> 
> jason
> 87 16V
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