Front bumper cover alignment issues......anyone?

[PQ]

Originally Posted by SOPMOD

I think he just tightened the two torx bolts down to far and that raised the center of the front bumper cover higher than the hood?

Guess we will have to wait for him to post to see what he figured out?

Maybe you could post your how to fix and that may help him also?

SOPMOD...OUT!

I already did. Kinda.

Make sure there are no obstructions. Then go from there. You may very well be right. Those bolts didn't do anytning to mine the two times I had it off. But I just tightened them till they were as tight as they were before.

Hopefully that was it.

[SOPMOD]

That's what I think also, hence the photos I posted.

SOPMOD...OUT!

Originally Posted by Gavros 4 Life

i had the same problem when i took it off to put the heritage grill on.....u need to adjust the bolts in the center of the black triangular piece right behind the the center tip of the fascia

[PQ]

Originally Posted by Gavros 4 Life

i had the same problem when i took it off to put the heritage grill on.....u need to adjust the bolts in the center of the black triangular piece right behind the the center tip of the fascia

Originally Posted by SOPMOD

That's what I think also, hence the photos I posted.

SOPMOD...OUT!

in order for that to be the case, he would have had to have played around with them before he started. There is no reason for him to have adjusted those screws.

Now if he did play with those screws, then I'd say that's easily the problem. But surely he woulnd't adjust those screws just for the hell of it.

[SOPMOD]

I guess he is the only one who knows? Like I said, we will have and wait to see his relpy and how he fixed it?

SOPMOD...OUT!

Originally Posted by SOPMOD

I think he just tightened the two torx bolts down to far and that raised the center of the front bumper cover higher than the hood?

Guess we will have to wait for him to post to see what he figured out?

Maybe you could post your how to fix and that may help him also?

SOPMOD...OUT!

Originally Posted by PQ

in order for that to be the case, he would have had to have played around with them before he started. There is no reason for him to have adjusted those screws.

Now if he did play with those screws, then I'd say that's easily the problem. But surely he woulnd't adjust those screws just for the hell of it.

[PQ]

Originally Posted by SOPMOD

I guess he is the only one who knows? Like I said, we will have and wait to see his relpy and how he fixed it?

SOPMOD...OUT!

If you take this quote at face value, there must be a blockage of some kind.

Originally Posted by RichardCranium

I did no altercation of any the hood height at all. The absolute only thing I did was remove the bumper cover.

[PQ]

SOPMOD, After thinking about it for a minute it is possible he thought those two T screws had to come out to take the fascia off and was trying to screw them out. Seems a little far fetched though. He'd have to have done both screws. He would have realized on the first one that it wasn't working. You'd think anyway. He did mention that the driver side hood sat a tad lower than the other side as well.

I guess we'll see.

[wrbear]

I still think adding a Magnacharger will fix if not redirect his thoughts on this problem.

[PQ]

Originally Posted by wrbear

I still think adding a Magnacharger will fix if not redirect his thoughts on this problem.

[RichardCranium]

Originally Posted by Andro

OP, what type of headlights did you install? Did you change the whole light unit itself? If so you might want to make sure there not missed aligned

I changed the headlights as a whole unit, OEM pieces. You cannot install the headlights incorrectly, just like the bumper cover....its pretty much impossible. Thanks for trying to help figure out what may have caused this though.

Originally Posted by PQ

in order for that to be the case, he would have had to have played around with them before he started. There is no reason for him to have adjusted those screws.

Now if he did play with those screws, then I'd say that's easily the problem. But surely he woulnd't adjust those screws just for the hell of it.

Correct....I did not touch the screws. I had no problems getting the cover off, in fact I had it off in about 15 minutes, once I had the front end jacked up. The only thing I missed where the two 10mm bolts that are sort of hidden behind the reflectors on each side.

While I didn't touch these torx screws, it sounds like the adjustment I need to get proper hood/cover alignment. I never even actually looked at what those torx screws held or did, but I will check them out tomorrow and see if it is what I need to do to get this stuff aligned.

Thanks for all of the replies people. I'll report back after tomorrow.

[PQ]

Well, when you figure it out. Post right away, haha, I'm totaly curious now.

[RichardCranium]

Ok, things are making sense now. I am at my parents house, and checked out the T30 screws. I checked them both ways, found they were as far as they'd go clockwise. After thinking on that, I had left a screw loose on top for the bumper cover......which my dad found. He confirmed he tightened every bolt under the hood. So, this explains the mysterious misalignment.

I loosened the torx screws and adjusted with a few hood shuttings....its as close as it'll get now. Thanks folks.

[PQ]

Originally Posted by RichardCranium

Ok, things are making sense now. I am at my parents house, and checked out the T30 screws. I checked them both ways, found they were as far as they'd go clockwise. After thinking on that, I had left a screw loose on top for the bumper cover......which my dad found. He confirmed he tightened every bolt under the hood. So, this explains the mysterious misalignment.

I loosened the torx screws and adjusted with a few hood shuttings....its as close as it'll get now. Thanks folks.

Ok. I'm confused. Which bolt was loose?

My torx screws were all the way tight too. I never changed them. How can the torx screws adjust if you never touched them and they remained all the way tight?

[RichardCranium]

Originally Posted by PQ

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Ok. I'm confused. Which bolt was loose?

My torx screws were all the way tight too. I never changed them. How can the torx screws adjust if you never touched them and they remained all the way tight?

Think you are misunderstanding the concept of the screws.

First thing, the 10mm bolts that are vertically mounted at each corner of the bumper cover (have to pop the hood to access them)....I had left one of those slightly loose. This did not affect anything at all, but my father is sort of anal....and paranoid, so he tightened it down.

As for the torx screws.....there is no "tight" or "loose", it is a spring loaded screw....it is an adjustment, not a fastener. So if you turn it clockwise to its limits...that just means it is at its max adjustment in that direction. For our cars, this means that the adjustment is all the way down.....which made the hood lower than the front fascia. So by turning the adjusting screws (the torx screws) counterclockwise, it brought the panels back into alignment.

[SOPMOD]

I think he is saying his father tightened the torx bolts along with all the other bolts and that is how the bumper cover adjustment height got screwed up. If the two torx bolts are tightened and bottomed out the bumper cover will be at it's highest height.

Either way I'm glad it worked out.

SOPMOD...OUT!

Originally Posted by PQ

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Ok. I'm confused. Which bolt was loose?

My torx screws were all the way tight too. I never changed them. How can the torx screws adjust if you never touched them and they remained all the way tight?