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Old Dec 14, 2010 | 09:47 PM
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The one right under the plastic is split in the middle but we kind of pulled it back together. Do you think it will hold up until like March or so? And yeah, it sucks just got some fog lights mounted NOT in the stock holes, 1 of the lenses is cracked now but it still works. Then the only other victim was the air horn, the lower one snapped off. Oh yeah then the grille and the hood is just slightly dented towards the center.
I drove with my bumper all kinds of screwed up for who knows how long.

parts truck bumper was 75, Re-pro hood was $150 i think, Grille was $35.
 
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Old Dec 14, 2010 | 09:53 PM
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Yeah I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do yet. Drive it for awhile the way it is, but then I might look at one of those sweet custom front bumpers like a few of the guys on here have (depends on my $$$$), otherwise just go stock and I'll probably try to make it black, since I have an SXT model, and I wanted to black all the stuff out anyways. You said you hit a stop sign right? Lol... I can only imagine. But that sucks.
 
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Old Dec 14, 2010 | 10:58 PM
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Yeah I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do yet. Drive it for awhile the way it is, but then I might look at one of those sweet custom front bumpers like a few of the guys on here have (depends on my $$$$), otherwise just go stock and I'll probably try to make it black, since I have an SXT model, and I wanted to black all the stuff out anyways. You said you hit a stop sign right? Lol... I can only imagine. But that sucks.
One of those deals where you can stop and go left, stop and go right, or skid and go straight into the sign...

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After the sign

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Here's what it looked like with the replacement bumper

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Old Dec 14, 2010 | 11:07 PM
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You never think of how hard stop signs are until you hit one lol.
 
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Old Dec 14, 2010 | 11:40 PM
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Wow, thats almost exactly what mine looks like except mines a little more to the right and tiny bit deeper. Haha skid straight into it. Hopefully it was at least icy?
 
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Old Dec 15, 2010 | 12:01 AM
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Wow, thats almost exactly what mine looks like except mines a little more to the right and tiny bit deeper. Haha skid straight into it. Hopefully it was at least icy?
I had been plannign to buy new tires the very next week. It had rained and it was ona downhill, I went to stop and went straight into lockup.

That was after pulling the bumper out. The radiator, AC condensor, and core support are now all bowed inwards. The AC condensor and core support took most of the brunt.
 
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Old Dec 15, 2010 | 03:59 PM
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Dang yeah I went to hit my brakes and they locked on some ice and I hit the back of the next car. Well my ac stuff seems to be okay, but its kind of hard to test when its like 15 degrees here. We'll see but the damage doesnt seem to bad
 
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