Hello fellow Rovers,
Nudged a parking bollard and it cracked my front bumper. Any thoughts on where I can get a used one? Paul Grant does not have. Willing to go within a 150 mile radius for pick-a-part. I'm in Fairfield County, CT.

 

since you're a fellow military member I'll let you know if I find one locally.

 

You can probably buy a steel one for the same $. If you feel like a little work they can be repaired relatively easily. I like to pull the cover off, sticth it back together with the plastic stapler (less than $50 on ebay), drill some holes on either side of the crack, then jb weld epoxy the entire underside surface of the repair to hold it together. Sand and paint with rattle can bedliner. Or skip all that and just superglue it back together and use actual two part spray bedline over it.

 

Believe it or not Shoe Goo and fiberglass on the back side work amazingly well to fix cracks in the bumper,

 

Thanks everyone! I'm hoping to just find the center portion of one intact, I cracked the passenger side, just where it joins the fog light/side piece. My plan is to scab it in strictly for cosmetic looks.

 

If you post pics we might be able to guide you, I recently rebuilt three cracked bumpers. I like to use window screen in the epoxy compound add additional resistance against cracking.

 

That's a good trick extinct...
Really bonds it up.

 

Thanks for all the input folks! I ordered the plastic stapler last night and a sheet of black ABS plastic. I saw (you tube of course) that ABS can be "formed" via a heat gun so my plan is to square up all the edges, lay something behind the current bumper as a base then put in a piece on top to complete the repair. Regardless of outcome(good or bad) I will keep you in the loop with pics.

 

If it were me, I'd use something like jb weld and drill holes next to both sides of the crack. Lay the jb on there after roughing up the plastic.

sand and paint.

 

yes, I do this as well but with the JB Weld epoxy and not the normal JB weld. The epoxy seems a bit more flexible. I turned the cover upside down so that the epoxy runs through the holes from the inside to the outside and I lay the window screen on the inside surface. You have to keep up with it for the first 5 minutes or so because it's continuously dripping through the little holes what you wanted out with little hooks in the plastic that hold the crack together and the underside coating thickness reinforces the whole thing.