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Submitted By: Stacy B
It’s Alive!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Derelict says: “I’ll give it an A for effort. Think about drilling all those tiny holes and then threading the zip-ties through! Classier than duct tape, too!”
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Wut?
No duct tape?
This is a task *made* for duct tape.
Aussie bolts used to their finest!
“And once your bumber heals, we’ll remove these and it’ll be just like new again, Mrs. Jones. Now, would you like to pay cash or check?”
Strip ties, the new duct tape. Duct tape is so yesterday.
They could have used color ones to match!! would have looked better…. Just kidding.
I don’t know why, but d’like how the bumper broke. btw… is this offensive to other people when I call that frekin’ fix an emo car?? (but the blood on the scars is missing!!) °_° :-X
Now THAT is a true Frankenstein fix!!! It’s alive!
that’s a new Government approved dealer repair from GM.
Shame on him for not doing a baseball stitch.
Now I wish my bumper was broken… that looks awesome.
(usual nickname, no pun intended.)
A lot of people do that, actually. My brother, for instance.
It looks like from first teasers of NFS ProStreet…
I’ll give it an A for effort. Think about drilling all those tiny holes and then threading the zip-ties through!
Classier than duct tape, too!
Oh hey, awesome! I took this photo.
No, it isn’t my car.
My husband did this once. I’m so ashamed.
Hey, if it works, don’t fix it!
I’m fully impressed. A smart (hopefully temporary) solution.
You won’t have any trouble over parking
‘Move over, if I hit your car mine’ll grow back.’
It gives a whole new meaning to plastic surgery.
Probably will survie the weather better than duct tape. Kind of fashionable. Yeah, should have done baseball stitch.
zip ties FTW
@Teebo
Exactly… duct tape doesn’t last through seasonal temperature changes.
I’ve actually used this “car suture” method twice before, successfully, but on the plastic airshield underneath the front end, not on a visible bumper.
Just goes to show you, those plastic bumpers aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
hahaha
There’s a blue Neon that has a bumper rig like that around here
I do have to argue with Theo though. The bumper on my Ranger was held together with duct tape and it lasted 2 years before coming off. I live in Alabama so we have summers in the 100s and winters in the 10s.
I must confess to doing the same repair to my Fiat Uno. The black ABS bumpers and black cable ties were a lot more subtle than this example though and I drilled out the tip of the crack to stop it propagating.
@Jason
(MN boy here)
Even to the 10s, eh? And what kind of snow do you get down there? How about road salt?
Those zip-tie sutures may be butt ugly, but they’ll last as long as the bumper itself.
I did the same thing to my trashcan after the claw of death on the garbage truck destroyed it. I think it’s classy.
@Derelict
But duct tape might have blended with the silver better!
ive done this, mine is cross-stitched and connector ends are inside bumper.
DRIFT CARS HAVE SCARS!
Someone was totally coked out when they did this….
sad thing is my ex was going to “fix” my car like this.. idk if it would be better or worse
Somewhere out there a silver ’97 Civic is driving around with a repair like this, but it’s inside the wheel well and nearly unnoticeable.
Seeing this and reading the comments makes me want to do it deliberately with the baseball stitch. Maybe on a motorcycle fender. (I would have it reinforced on the underside. It would be for looks, not strength/stability.)
I have come computers that need work. Is this guy available?
I wonder if this is what customers mean when they come into my body shop and ask me what the car will look like once we’ve repaired it.
Oh, my God. This is EPIC. I love the sewing…they must’ve used a knitting needle (or a letter opener) to lovingly stitch the two sides together. I’m willing to bet that whoever did this had student loans up the wazoo.
Like Nick said – born from drifting. When you wreck you bumper a few times a month you get crafty on keeping it alive.
Don’t you know that duct-tape lasts a lot longer in red-neck land by proliferation? Wonder-cousin powers unite! (nothing personal BTW!)
Duct tape covering would now match the paint!
wooooo hooooooooo
CASH FOR CLONKERS
Scrapbookers everywhere will regcognize this as the work of the Crop A Dile.
But, in this case, duct tape would have MATCHED.
@nick
exactly what I was thinking, I have seen hundreds of drift cars with zipties holding on body parts let alone just holding then together. Only problem is that it looks like that emblem says “escort”
Umm…is that the shadow of a lobster taking the picture? Or did someone with lobster claw hands take it? Or..wait… is this the handy work of Lobster Claw Hands? If so, doubly impressed.
This is surreal; I’ve seen this car In The Real World. I don’t remember where, but I’m gonna guess Pittsburgh, since I spent most of my summer there. I can assure you, it’s even more awesome in person.
I have absolutely done this before, haha
This is the approved method for bumper repairs in municipalities all over the country. When a Crown Victoria blasts a U-ey through a rough or steeply banked median to go after a speeder, the rear bumper cover generally tears in two places. Zip tires are threaded through as stitches to keep the bumper cover in one piece.
http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab220/jb1276/DSC_0920.jpg
Not only is the zip tie the solution to the problem, but it is also the preventative. There are a few holes on the bottom lip of a Crown Victoria bumper. There are metal supports just above them closer to the base of the trunk floor. You can zip tie the bumper up to those and prevent median U-turn tears that way. It is called a “tuck”
http://www.hendonpub.com/images/articles/4236_2.jpg
It’s a legitimate way of repairing bumper bars to their original finish. First you drill holes and thread through the zip ties, then you use a special plastic welding stick and a heat gun to fill in the cracks, remove the zip ties and fill the holes, and then sand the whole thing back. You can then paint it to the original colour. My dad is a panel repairer for a rally car team and repaired my van’s bumper after i hit a kangaroo
This would be cool if the whole car was done like that.
No but seriously, this is common in rally, this guy must be ken block!
I’ve done that before! works awesome if you have a black car..