What a mess this is!

[MoMartin]

So I bought a replacement bumper for my car the other day (because the previous owner chopped my one up for a fmic) and it looks like the one I've bought is smaller than the one I have (the guy said it was a gti but once I got there I found that it was a tdi)


http://imgur.com/KXcz8kD
http://imgur.com/EIILqFM
http://imgur.com/oxW5N5k
http://imgur.com/DDsh7b3
http://imgur.com/yCkGnGO
http://imgur.com/gdGQ2QZ
http://imgur.com/U4PjaFu

Can someone confirm that this is definitely the wrong size?

Also I realise that the crash bar / current layout is a complete mess

Cheers, Mo

[SI74]

There is only one UK front bumper for the mk4 is there not?   Can't see VW making different bumpers for the different engines. If I had a bumper for sale and you asked me was it a GTI one I'm going to say yes even if it's from a 1.4

In what way do you think it's smaller?  even in the pictures they look the same to me

Did you try the new one you got on?

[MoMartin]

Thats exactly what i thought, and yeah i tried putting it on and it wouldn't even slide on to side skirts, it would get like half way then jam, and it just looked smaller on the whole to be honest, like when i put the bumpers inside one another the new bumper had about an inch gap on each side, then when i put the old bumper inside the new bumper it was pushing the sides up a little bit, though my old bumper does have a huge section missing so some of the structural strength is probably gone

[SI74]

Side skirt?

[MoMartin]

I cant think of what they're called, its the thing above the bumper and the wheel arch (not the bonnet - between that and the arch haha)

[SI74]

Even more lost now lol

Above the bumper?

It just pushes straight on to the two clips on the wings then bolted up with the 5 bolts and the 8 screws in the arch liner.

Get some pictures. (If you can load them straight up to the site)

[MoMartin]

ha i mean the wings! 

Also to add to all the annoying problems already, one of the b*stard bolts sheared!

[mcgee9t2]

bumpers should be exactly the same, only difference is non gti/gttdi models didn't have colour coded rub strips

[brewey]

You definitely bought a mk4 bumper and not a mk3.5 on from the cab?
Have you checked the part numbers?

[MoMartin]

It was off a mk4 tdi 2002 model, my car is a 2000 if that would make any difference, but yeah it really didn't want to go on