RE: OEM Big Bumpers

[drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca>]

If all you want to do is get rid of the piston mounts in your Scirocco
bumper, upgrade to 84.5+ Scirocco bumper mounts.  The piston mounts were
dropped in favour of folded steel mounts which are designed to
accordian in a crash.  This style of bumper mount was used on A2 cars as
well.


Drew (84.5 Wolfsburg Ed)


On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Langford, Cory wrote:

> 
>  It is quite easy to get rid of those heavy shock assembly in your Scirocco
> bumper.  In fact, check for an aftermarket golf 2 ('90) bumper from Italy.
> They are super light and use the simple mounting that
> the Europeans use.  Looks like a folded piece of sheet metal. 
> 
> Only problem will be They are not Legal in North America.  Not a problem if
> you don't have any kind of safety inspections, but if you do they do not
> pass the slow speed collision test (this is what the shocks are used for) as
> they are solid.
> 
> The aftermarket need a little tweaking to get them to sit nice, but all you
> need to do to mount them is to drill 2 holes in the bottom of you bumper
> mounting area and bold them to there.  Just remember if you hit anything,
> expect more damage....
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diamond Dave [mailto:dbarwick@sprynet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:02 AM
> To: Scirocco List; phishy20_1@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: OEM Big Bumpers
> 
> 
> 
> > So what are the specs, Weight, ease of install, cost?  I assume the euro
> > is lighter?
> 
> Those bumpers on the yellow VR6 Scirocco are super-fabricated to fit that
> application, so the OEM aspect ends at the fact that they are Volkswagen
> stock equipment.  They are only lighter if the US bumper shock assembly is
> not retained.
> 
> >ease of install
> lots of cutting of metal and plastic and trial fitting.
> 
> > cost
> Cheap, since its your time and all you have to do is find a used front
> bumper from Mk2 Jetta or Golf.
> 
> > I assume the euro is lighter?
> The euro bumper assembly for the Scirocco2 weighs roughly 9lbs.  The US spec
> bumper assembly weighs almost 50lbs.  The Golf bumper could approach the
> euro weight if more fabrication time allowed for building a custom mounting
> bracket to replace the bumper shock assembly.
> 
> For another clean (if you think that "look" is clean) example, check out my
> friend Brandon's candy apple red 8V with black 16V body kit and Golf front
> and rear bumpers.  He put a lot of trial fit time into his and they fit
> closer to the body than any other with the Golf equipment.  It's under the
> 16V section on www.scirocco16v.com .
> 
> HTH,
> David Barwick
> 88 Scirocco
> 84 Jetta GLI
> Eugene, OR
> 
> 
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