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That's the problem with these new 'plastic' bumpers. What would have been a minor dent in the days of metal, now becomes a collapsed area with attendant fractures and cracks, requiring the replacement of the entire fender area.
(I backed my Taurus into a small pole.)
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Yeah, that's what I loved about my old Cavalier. She had the heavy-duty bumpers, not these fragile little things that on my Saturn now.
I was backing out of a parking space down at school and accidentally bumped into a concrete pole. This pole was only stood about two and half feet tall, so I didn't see it when I was backing out. I hit that thing dead-center on my back bumper at about 10 mph. When I checked it out, not so much as a little scrap on it.
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Yeah, the only way to fix this would to be to take everything from the headlights and hood down off the car because it's such a big bumper.
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