Bumper Replacement, OH DEER!

[ATL_driver]

Well last Thursday while driving through Thetford Forest at 6AM I came in collision with a young stag deer, not too much damage, lower half of bumper and a few bit of plastic under the car, behind the bumper etc
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so anyway, I think I got away lucky compared to a friend who the day before Avoided hitting a deer

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so yesterday, I set about changing the front bumper, I did this with wheels on and NO JACK,
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half way through
then split the lower and upper halfs of the bumper
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much better with its face back on, just need a new grille and it'll be as good as new.
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so if anyone says you can't do it on it's wheels they haven't tried hard enough,
sorry I couldn't do a step by ctep, I was at work and was against the clock so to speak,

there is only 10mm bolts holding it on and the torx along the slam panel, 3 bolts under front end, 2 bolts either side for the white(in my case) bumper grille bit you'll need to remove inner arches for this and many easy to remove clips

[Jed Clampit]

Nice to see you got it sorted where did you get the bumper from in the end

[ATL_driver]

went online and think it was 1st choice car parts, was £99 plus £10 postage for the lower half of the bumper, and obviously saved by fitting myself, just waiting on getting a grille and then no one would ever know it'd had a smack.. oh and it needs a mirror cap

[Jed Clampit]

went online and think it was 1st choice car parts, was £99 plus £10 postage for the lower half of the bumper, and obviously saved by fitting myself, just waiting on getting a grille and then no one would ever know it'd had a smack.. oh and it needs a mirror cap

Not a bad price and putting it on your self saved a fair few quid good work alut:

[philip]

Oh deer.

[taxi]

Fawn coloured bumper

[addo]

When he ran into a canary, it was cheep to fix.

[ATL_driver]

ba bum tist!

well I'm happy with how it's gone, and my boss didn't find the costs too deer, so all is good in the world

[addo]

What about your mate who parked in the tree - is he an employee as well?

[ATL_driver]

on a side note: was really impressed with the speed of delivery, order Friday 5pm and had arrived Tuesday morning and was on the car by that evening