R33 Series 2 Gts Front Bumper Query

[Nights]

Hi all,

Recently got a 33 series 2 gts. The front bar is a bit flaky, previous owner said he got it resprayed 2 years ago but its flaked again.

Now i noticed that there is no struts or anything on this thing, so if i grab it, i can sorta squish it.

Seems to me, that over time when the cars moving, the bumper is moving around/expanding/squishing in slightly, which is causing the paint to flake.

Is there supposed to be more support or is this pretty common for skylines to have it sorta just hanging off?

[chiksluvit]

how low's the car? paint fracture looks like the bumper got squeezed when coming out of driveways

the respray doesnt look like a good job either.. doesnt even look like its preped properly

[PM-R33]

Plastic bumpers can move around without damaging the paint. It's perfectly fine.

The damage was most likely done as said above. Not just from normal driving...

[SargeRX8]

My car had a poor condition bumper which I bought second hand to replace a aftermaket front bumper. The paint wasn't cracked. I merely bumped, BUMPED, those f**king concrete stops at the end of a parking slot and the paint cracked left right and center. Plastic will bend and the paint on it is not very flexible so it cracks. Fiberglass bumpers on the other hand just f**king deteriorate into shit so be glad you've only got the stock bumper there.

I wouldn't paint it either. My car had one of the front quater panels painted(It was driven up a kerb caused some damage, not by me). It doesn't look obvious but its noticeable. If you respray the front, there is NO WAY you can blend in the 15 years of exposure the paint has had and the front is going to look different. Just leave it.

The R33 doesn't have much holding the front bumper, go to any car dealer, look at any R33 GTS25T and give the bottom corners of the front bumper a wobble, they jiggle alot lol and if you can squeeze hard enough I'm sure you can squish them.

Some people go Series 1 front bumper on a series 2 as it sits higher on a lowered car and not as much chance of scraping, I wouldn't do this as series 1 front end looks like dogs balls compared to series 2.

[AAARGH 33]

I wouldn't paint it either. My car had one of the front quater panels painted(It was driven up a kerb caused some damage, not by me). It doesn't look obvious but its noticeable. If you respray the front, there is NO WAY you can blend in the 15 years of exposure the paint has had and the front is going to look different. Just leave it.

Sorry about the hijack,but i had my rear quarter painted recently,stuck to the original paint code and it looks darker than the rest of the car,it sticks out so fkn bad. There is absolutely no way to blend in?

[Nights]

Thanks for the advice guys! Appreciate it

Yeah previous owner had it pretty low, Ive since then raised it a bit. I noticed if i feel underneath it definitely has scraped something at some point, so thats prob what caused it.

Or the respray wasnt done properly. Could be a combination.

Hmm thanks for the tip about respraying, i was thinking of getting it done, but if its gonna stick out like you guys said, ill prob just stick with it. It looks fine as is. Might just touch up a few spots and leave it.

[PM-R33]

Get a good paint shop and you won't have problems - especially with white as it doesn't fade like the other Nissan factory colours. I've had my bumper resprayed twice over the last 5 years and it's been matched perfectly each time.