Date:         Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:23:06 -0500
Reply-To:     Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
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From:         Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
Subject:      Re: Front Bumper-Bent From The Factory?
Comments: To: Matt Drew <t3vanagon@GMAIL.COM>
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The argument of the  bumper material(I hate to call it fiberglass,
cuz it doesn't exhibit any of the good properties of a well made
fiberglass item).  If you grind on the stuff, it throws the carbon-y
dust at you and fractured parts look like something made in a chopper
gun mold, except they ran too much fiberglass strands and not enough
resin.  Not knowing the physical properties of the resin and fabric
involved, I would have to say that pulling the part from the mold too
soon could definitely create problems if the resin wasn't fully cured
or perhaps  the ratio of resin to hardener was off.  I've also seen
cheap polyester and isothalic(and even high quality vinylester resin
that's been around too long)resin and hardener past their shelf life
NEVER fully set up despite heat curing blah blah blah.

If these are knockoff bumper parts they're likely as good a quality
as the chrome bumpers coming in from the third world
manufacturers.  If they came from VW, then I make a warranty claim
and bitch bitch bitch.

I would also say the BS meter could bedoing the Chernobyl thing too.

DM&FS

At 04:54 PM 3/18/2009, Matt Drew wrote:
>Good. That means that my sniffer still works.  :)
>
>Has anyone EVER heard anything like this before? EVER?
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Mike Collum <collum@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>
> > Matt Drew wrote:
> >
> >> * Is the needle on anybody's BS meter buried?
> >>
> >
> > The needle on my meter is bouncing against the stops.  I never heard of
> > anything like that before.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >