On Sunday afternoon I had a little off-road fun for an hour or so and managed to smack the front on the ground rather hard - enough to bend the mantec tray. I suppose I was lucky that the airbags didn't go off - it was quite a smack. My fault for driving too fast . I was driving on a motorcross track that was very bumpy.
Anyway, any ideas how I can straighten the mantec tray? I could leave it, but it is noticeably bent as the rhs that should be normally touching the painted section of the bumper now has a 1cm gap, yet the lhs is fine.Matt
19th Mar 2007 9:46 am
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19th Mar 2007 9:54 am
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I'd offer to jump up & down on it but I don't think that would do any good!
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Re: Mantec tray bent
d3matt wrote:
I was driving on a motorcross track that was very bumpy.
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19th Mar 2007 10:21 am
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Re: Mantec tray bent
d3matt wrote:
Anyway, any ideas how I can straighten the mantec tray?
Matt, thee only way you will straighten that is to take it off and bring it to an engineering shop that has a press, because it is alluminum it will need to be pressed past the straight point so that it springs back to straight.
I have a LR one with a dent in, and belive me a sledge hammer full force on to it makes no impression at all.
yo will need severall tonnes of pressure to move.
Thin of it this way, a D3 (2.7tonnes) falling say .5 of a meter on to somthing the size of your fist, think of the forces at work here, i recon a 20 or 30 tonne press should do it.CLUB "Ah Shor it'll be grand"
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19th Mar 2007 10:26 am
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Very true Simon - I'm glad I've got one. But then if I didn't I probably would of been taking a little more care over the bumps.
I'll check out the tray next weekend (away all week) to make sure it isn't putting undue pressure on the wrong parts of the front bumper. It sounds like I'll have to leave it bent, but it would be nice to straighten it. I wonder if I could turn it upside down and then jack the car up with a trolley jack in the middle of the plate?Matt
19th Mar 2007 3:00 pm
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Also bending the metal back is going to weaken it slightly and you may find the fixings are under stress so they get stripped on removal or may not be lined up correctly when you put the plate back on ??
Being the pessimist here of course.
19th Mar 2007 3:20 pm
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19th Mar 2007 3:22 pm
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I will straighten it I have one of these and a big hammer.
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. I was driving on a motorcross track that was very bumpy.
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