My baby has a frumpy smile?

[RikRok]

The grill opening in my front facia is showing some signs of warpage. Can anything, short of replacement be done?

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[DodgeViper01]

Never seen that before. I am very intrigued to see what you can do for that as well. Worst case scenerio, is you purchased a used front fascia and paint it white since your stripes do not go to the bumper. They run about $400 on eBay. Good luck either way.

 

[Tom F&L GoR]

I've seen a few with varying degrees of this. You can reach in and drill holes through the upper and lower "flaps" and use a tie wrap to hold them together again. (I did this, and you can't really see the black plastic tie wraps I used.)

With white, I would look for flexible body putty-glue stuff, maybe one of those gorilla snot glues. Put a big smear between the flaps and pinch them closed until the glue dries. If it takes a while to dry, then use some clamps.

 

[Warfang]

can you get clear braces for that?

 

[V10SpeedLuvr]

Mine is doing that on the passenger side (it was like that when I bought it). Let us know what you do and how it works

 

[GR8_ASP]

I seem to remember some cars that had a foam piece installed that prevented the distortion. Not too clear on the details. Maybe JonB knows.

 

[C O D Y]

Yes there is foam inside the front fascia.

That fascia needs to be removed and repaired BAD. What did you hit?

I seem to remember some cars that had a foam piece installed that prevented the distortion. Not too clear on the details. Maybe JonB knows.

 

[VIPER BAZ UK]

Mine has foam inserts to keep the shape....

 

[ViperJohn]

There is a foam insert that goes inside the crosshair portion which is kept in place with two sided tape. The factory ran two strips in a vertical fashion, so you have a small contact area. I removed mine and re-applied two sided tape horizontally across the entire area. I ran one strip across the top and the other across the bottom. Make sure you clean the surfaces with alcohol before applying two sided tape.

As for the bottom portion, there are ridges that extend downward and are touching. File the ridges down and that should remedy that problem. If the car has been previously wrecked, there may be some alignment issues placing stress on the fascia causing it to buckle upwards.

 

[Tom F&L GoR]

Cool. I have a '94, have had the fascia off, and there was no foam piece inside the cross hair section, only behind the section above the crosshair opening (in front of the fiberglass bumper).

 

[EllowViper]

ViperJohn is correct. Simply remove the facia, remove the foam inserts that are used to keep the correct shape, clean well with solvent, get some good double-sided sticky tape for emblems, etc...and reinstall on the foam inserts and press together. I'd clamp for a few hours in a fairly warm area too. When I redid my facia, I had the same situation. The factory install used two thin srips of tape that came "unglued". Now there is enough adhesive in there for four facias....

 

[ViperRed]

Oh well.... don't take my word for it.

But I heard that if you pour hot water on fibre glass, it goes back to its original mould and shape.

 

[RikRok]

Mine doesnt have any foam in between. So I guess if I pick up some about 3/4" thick, glue and clamp it, it should work.
Thanks for the help guys.

 

[JonB]

The varied and contrary answers above prove that THE YEAR MATTERS.....I especially love the "go to ebay" for the fix advice !

 

[venms96]

My guess is that the cause of that is excessive heat on the Southern Roads, you're from Florida, the other guy from Georgia. Car baking in that Florida Sun, Garage heat if it's not AC, and just engine heat combined with that warm, humid air you usually have down there. Just a guess......doesn't matter, just hope you can get an easy fix.

venms96
1996 GTS