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Front Bumper Project Gone Wrong
Hey all,
I handed in my 2015 Volkswagen Sportswagen TDI SEL (White - LC9A) to a local auto-body shop for a personal project. I decided that I wanted to have the MK7 GTD Sportswagen style so I committed myself into purchasing a genuine GTI front bumper alongside, GTD grille and other appropriate parts to match the replication of a GTD model which was not offered here in Australia :emo_baghead:
Issue 1: [RESOLVED] After my car being at the shop for a week, I came to collect my car and instantly noticed the front bumper hue was mismatched and appeared 'blue' in the white: https://imgur.com/gallery/WjWFJiA
(It was more noticeable in person).
Issue 2: [UNRESOLVED] On top of this, the front parking sensors were detecting objects in front whereas there was nothing to detect except the road in which it drives on. The sensors in the front don't work correctly but the outside sensors work fine. The interesting part is that the sensors do not detect anything whilst the car is on a light coloured road but when I enter onto the main road (black asphalt) the sensors experience a nervous breakdown. I have cleansed the sensors and there has been no difference. The workshop mechanically heated my old parking sensor brackets into the new bumper and they made a statement, "The old parking sensor brackets do not correspond with the new bumper so we'll need to order in the correct parking sensor brackets". This made me upset as this was a 'guess' and added to the cost of the bumper cost...
The auto-body shop firstly repainted the front bumper again to the correct match (the auto-body shop utilised my side mirror caps to colour match - big mistake prior as the side mirror caps were manufactured in another country as opposed to the body of the car! They don't properly match the bumper whether plastic or metal). The parking sensors still display the same results as before although the paint match is immaculate.
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Speculation: Is the sensor not flush with the bar? Is the sensor angled too far down? Was the wiring harness damaged during removal and installation? Are sensors allowed to be resprayed, if so, is the resprayed sensors interfering with the proximity? Is the bumper causing the issue? (Manager deterred to this issue although I doubt this as it's interchangeable and no one else has experienced this issue before). Have the brackets been welded incorrectly to the bumper?
I am looking forward to anyone who has answers, cheers!