Bumper removal issie

[Ugly John]

Found out that she is actually on this site, and Amarie.S550 was kind enough to let me post her pics.

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[Chef jpd]

Looks like an ill positioned parking sensor.

 

[amarie.s550]

Found out that she is actually on this site, and Amarie.S550 was kind enough to let me post her pics.

One thing I will say is if I was to do this all over again I would have used the dremel first to file down that extra plastic and then drilled a hole for the screw closer towards the hood instead of trying to center it within that plastic +. This way the latch would be centered in the middle of that top section of the bumper. Hope that makes sense? lol.
Also I was told that it's a good idea to get a locking nut for the back side of the screw since it tends to loosen up occasionally.

 

[HISSMAN]

Locking nut, and a dab of blue loctite and it will only loosen when you want it to. Nice job BTW!

 

[HISSMAN]

I just yanked my cover again yesterday to do some changes to the APR splitter. It took me 45 minutes to remove the cover, move the splitter struts and reinstall the cover. Because of this thread I left the "bitch bolts" off and that porbably saved me 10-15 minutes. I would wager that it will save about the same amount of time the next time I remove the cover. So removal to reinstallation should be no more than 30 minutes moving forward. Everything is tight and I really don't see a reason for the bolts. I may though, look into making a short pin of some sort, put some threads on it and screw it into that spot with just enough of the head sticking out to keep the corner in place if I see it being necessary. It really just needs something to keep it from flaring out. I don't see any reason why it needs to actually be bolted in.

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