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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: local.litw on 25 April 2011, 19:47

Title: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: local.litw on 25 April 2011, 19:47

An old guy decided to drive into my mk3 I got a week ago. bad day!! ive taken the bonnet bumper and wing off and where the bumper slides into the chassis leg is bent up pretty bad. anyone got any tips on straightening this back out or can i get a piece off an old car and replace it??

cheers

Title: Re: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: Wayne on 25 April 2011, 20:13

Will need to go onto a jig to be sorted, not something to bodge really

Title: Re: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: local.litw on 25 April 2011, 20:34

bollocksssss  :cry:

Title: Re: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: thai-wronghorse on 26 April 2011, 08:20

Jiggity jiggity.

Title: Re: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: tweed on 26 April 2011, 12:32

Doesn't it have to go on a jig and then get inspected by....? to be aloud to go back on the road?
tbh mate that sounds like a write off. Can't you claim?

Title: Re: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: madmanmart on 26 April 2011, 12:44

Pic of damage?

Are you on about the chassis leg itself or the bracket that is welded to it that supports the bumper?

Title: Re: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: Mikester on 26 April 2011, 13:05

From what you are saying you are refering to the bracket that comes out to the bumper being bent up but mistaking it for being the chassis leg.

For an old man to drive into your car and bed the chassis leg upwards he would have to be doing some.

Title: Re: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: local.litw on 26 April 2011, 20:33

yeah its the bracket that the bumper sits on.

Title: Re: Bent inner wing and chassis leg??
Post by: hazd31 on 23 October 2011, 12:02

sounds like the same problem we have, car took quite an inpact but if a can straighten the leg its a good car again.