i just bought a brand new front bumper and reinforcment because a had a big space between the hood and the bumper it almost look like my hood was open. but after installing the bumper and reinforcment i still have the same problem... any ideas?

 

so i guess that means that the bumper is completely secure and did u check the hood??? maybe the grill is slightly outta place or the hood is not even... that may be it...

 

I was in an accident last year, over $12 000 damage :yack: The insurance agent would not write off the car. It was a head on collision, my fender, suspension hood and front bumper were replaced. I also noticed a gap between the bumper and hood. After taking a closer look I noticed the body shop had replaced my 3.2 bumper with a 2.5, later they replaced it with the proper bumper and the gap is almost gone. I would check the year and model for the hood and bumper just in case of minor differences ...also check to see if the parts are "Acura" (not that I'm a Label Licker) there are other aftermarket, cheaper brand names that may have minor differences ( my first hood was made by some collision part deal?) Good luck!

 

thanks alot for your help, but i personally when to the dealer and bought the parts my self. i just dont get it but i will try my best to get rid off that gap..

 

i thought of that already and check all that and still,the hood is traight.thanks

 

i had the same problem. i just took it to a body shop and the pulled it right for about 50 bucks

 

Check to see if your radiator support is bent or something, my friend had this problem on his Accord.

 

thanks

 

nope it's not that.

 

ahh i just saw this today... did u check to see if ur rubber stoppers and tightened???

 

I had an accident where I ran into the guy in front of me. I thought he had gone, but was still waiting for traffic to clear. As a result, the gap between my bumper and hood/light opened up about 1/2". There is a reinforcing bar that runs horizontally about the top of the bumper height and after twisting that up, the gap tightened back to stock. That may be your situation.

 

TL12, how do you adjust that? Ever since I took my headlights off and the bumper cover, theres been a small gap also. It really bothers me. Thanks.

 

same EXACT thing happened to me after I painted mine... small gap on one side..

 

Damn. There must be some trick to put the bumper cover on. We need to fix this.

 

are you sure that you put the bumper back on right cause i have taken my bumper off atleast 20 times and a cuple of times took off the headlight also and have had no problems with a gap anywhere

 

What can we be doing wrong? Is there a certain order to put everything back together? Help us out bro.

 

I took off the fender bolts (on the right side for my problem) that is in the wheel-well and gently pulled the fender out and forward. This exposes a metal frame that the top of the bumper clips on to. I took a crow bar and make a fulcrum using a 2x4 under the crow bar to pry up the metal frame. Be careful not to touch the bumper bacause you don't want to scrape the paint. I bent the frame up slightly and now the bumper fits perfectly up against the light housing.