wmahmud

To make the story short, I had an incident where I banged my back bumper and it cracked by the left tail light and popped out of the clips on the left rear causing some clips to break as well.

So I had the rear bumper replaced by my personal body shop, after 3 damaged bumpers from Acura he finally got one good one to work with.

He repainted it WDP and put it back on, but as my pictures below show, there is a slight gap on each side still for some reason. He then ordered new brackets that are under the bumper that the bumper clips into, it aligned a bit better, but there is still a gap as seen below.

Then now having my rear skirt put back on, that has a slight gap too.

I have ordered a new gray moulding for him to replace, and he said he can permanently set the rear skirt with no gap by using some filler from the inside. In case something happens, the whole bumper and skirt would have to be fixed again as the rear skirt will be permanently in place.

What I am asking is if anyone has encountered anything like this and may be able to advise how I can get rid of the gap on each side, and if the skirt should be fixable without a permanent solution that he mentioned.

I was thinking of running some screws from the inside on each side to pull the skirt tight with the clip?

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated!!

wmahmud

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Pete2010

Wow, nothing as bad as that! I had a weird depression on my bumper in the corner, like they screwed a bolt too tight or something when putting the skirt on... that's just bad though.... There is a very small milimeter space where the skirt come close, not much to do about it... nothing like that.

If you're paying him to fix it, hopefully you can have him do it right.

Good luck.

wmahmud

Can anyone else suggest any way to make the fitment more better? Anyone with some body work or bodyshop experience?

Kingmeow

Looks like some other mounting component elsewhere is bent or damaged from the the hit. There's not way an OEM cover should align like that unless there are other components that were damaged.

wmahmud

The bumper just clips into 2 black arms on each side - my body shop even replaced those 2 black arms that the bumper clips into, but still no luck.

He is thinking of now running some screws from the inside between the clips of the bumper and black arm to pull them tighter together.

I am a bit confused as well as to why there is a gap on each side.

daev1966

The dealer put in my first rear ground spoiler and I found when I had to take some screws from it to fit a new set to my new bumper they used the wrong ones. Not even the same on both sides. I did the tailpipe cutouts and the drilling before it was painted to avoid scratching the new bumper. The dealer techs are pressed for time and evidently they think what the customer doesn't see under the spoiler won't bother. I see how the gaps I have look even worse on a light color other than black. Mine is real tight around the lights but the gap appears from the lights to the wheel well. I didn't pay attention to how the brackets were mounted but I was thinking if I could move them up about a eighth of an inch it would be perfect again. As far as those gaps where the spoiler is sagging down the adhesive strips are probably not stuck anymore. It seems they did not originally plan to have four nylon ratcheting clips per side because they did not mark the drill holes inside the bumper for two of them and the instructions do not mention them. They provide a template to place around the reflector to guide the hole placement. The two additional clips are near the corner and they probably added them because there were problems sagging. It wasn't easy but I pulled my dammaged left rear spoiler with the bumper still on. You can reach up and tighten those clips but not get new adhesive tape in unless you remove them. With no body experience and my Helm Service manual I pulled the old bumper in 30 minutes. After the new one I precut and predrilled was painted it took 2.5 hours and the friend who was gonna help never showed so I did it alone.

daev1966

The rear spacers are part 71593-TK4-A00 for Right and 71598-TK4-A00 for Left. Replacing these should resolve the problem with gap between the body and bumper cover by the rear wheel wells.

wmahmud

Are the rear spacers you mention the black arms on each side that hold the bumper clips or something else?

GunnerX

Those seem to be the spacers mentioned above. Here are the bumper components.

http://www.oemacuraparts.com/partloc...layCatalogid=0

wmahmud

Is this the same as the #6. side retainer left/right mentioned here?

http://www.oemacuraparts.com/partloc...layCatalogid=0

If thats the same thing - my body shop did replace those (they are black arms)

wmahmud

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