Originally posted by onosway:


PROBLEM! The back bumper has a crucial flaw. It's not a real bumper - just a bumper cover. The difference? Our cars are made with the bumper support as part of the bumper cover itself. For anybody who has taken off their rear bumper you know what i'm talking about. That bar that runs along the inside back of the stock bumper is our bumper which is bolted to the frame when the bumper is attatced.

Most cars have this seperate. The bumpers for our car were not designed with this in mind - instead what Chris did was make up a bracket - a poorly designed one at that - to hold the back bumper in place. If SVT ST PETE could take some pix of the rear I think it would help (sorry for calling you out but I don't have pix of that bumper). So basically you have no support in the rear. There are no install brackets either - you basically have to drill into your body.

How my shop fixed it - I had to buy another back bumper and they remolded the aftermarket rear to the stock rear to work with it. I don't think Andy's has addressed this - if they did the cost of the rear bumper should be higher. I wasn't really aware of it initially since I didn't know a lot about this kind of stuff and basically took Chris' word that it was okay - I'm not the biggest car guy. My shop did not want my car leaving that shop unless the bumper was in fact a real bumper.

I hope I explained that correctly - basically there is no support under the bumper - nothing to absorb impact in the way an actual bumper would.






This is the problem I have Andy isn't aware of this problem. so they need some pictures of the bracket/inside bumper and the screws that keep the top corners of the bumper. I sold my SVT rear bumper and dont have a picture of it to send them. also the two top screws that hold up the bumper. There is no way else to mount this bumper.. If any one can help send to my email address jaybenally@srmaterials.com thanks... I'll post the pictures of the kit late today or early tommorrow.. thanks again. hope i made sense iam at work and typing fast...