Previaologist!
Great job on the repairs. I've just read through the thread this morn.
Newbie here. Just found the forum yest.
wanted to shout out ta hellooooo the long time members
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Previaologist!
Great job on the repairs. I've just read through the thread this morn.
Newbie here. Just found the forum yest.
wanted to shout out ta hellooooo the long time members
👋
Thanks. I'm not done yet.
My drier arrives today, and should be installed tonight. Then I can put my grill back on.
I had to suck it up and pay $49 for new soft bumper cover supports from Japan, which will probably take a couple weeks to get here. I probably could have cobbled something together for free but have too much else to do. Hopefully I will have time to install it before I leave for warmer climes. If not, I'll go naked bumper.
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Originally Posted by man_btc
I take it its holding up still, if its years old? Looks like I am going to have to do this. At least one of my tabs is broken off just like yours, and other damage. Found out the 93 cover will not work. It won't go on far enough to bolt into the underside of the reinforcement, among other things. So I will have to make do with my broken, cracked, wrinkled and Suburu-smeared cover until I get to some fine western state where I can pick up a better looking one.
Gah, I did a color test last night with what I thought was black and clear plastic bonder but the clear was actually clear weld, a different, quicker setting epoxy. Tis a shame because I got a perfect color match but I don't trust it in use. Picked up some tan today and will see if I can make a gray from tan and black. I'm not clear as to whether Dan did that or not, but I'll know very shortly if it gives me gray or gives me the blues
Edit: test results are in. Tan with a little black gives a perfect gray
As I recall I used tan as that was the only color available (I thought at the time - maybe it was?). None of the tabs on mine show when assembled, so color didn't matter. Congrats on the color match!
And, yeah, it's held up so far.
Also, maybe you could make an extension for that mounting hole that doesn't reach with a piece of aluminum bar or something. I assume it's not visible - and you could always paint it to somewhat match?
If you are talking about the mounting holes on the 93 cover that don't reach the reinforcement (I'm not sure what else you might be referring to) there were several of them and multiple other issues. I definitely could have made it work somehow but it would have been a bigger pain than repairing my old one which not in as bad shape as I made it out to be. I can probably even get the Subaru smear off of it somehow and then it will just have a crease-wrinkle. I might even be able to heat that and smooth it out some. I spent today repairing all the small cracks which are mostly out of sight and just need to create 2 tabs like you did and it will be good to go.
However I will have to fabricate at least one lower corner support for that, or go without.. That support 52115-28050 is not available in the US (despite what all the Toyota sites say) and despite showing it in stock Japan now tells me it will be backordered for several weeks. But I want this cover on the van and 1500 miles from here by then. I do have one that should work and hopefully I can fab up another. So I told them to cancel my order.
Well this thread is almost wrapped up I hope. Here is the latest. Not perfect but good enough to get me away from that white stuff in a few days.
My left turn signal keeps popping out though, so I am at this moment reconstructing the broken screw-holder tab that I didn't want to reconstruct before, using the plastic bonding skills I learned on the bumper cover.
https://www.toyotavantech.com/forum/...9q3jShOOoJM//Z
This site is misbehaving tonight.
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