jk bumper end caps

[xpress]

Hi. Bumper end caps, the round bits seem to already be moulded in, anyone know how to do these? Cheers.

[Cruz]

Round bits? You have confused me

[xpress]

Black round twist caps that cover the nuts that hold the bolts that go through the lower rear quarters.

[Cruz]

Never seen them moulded in before. Are you sure they are not just caps you can push out with a screwdriver?

I got mine from JK but it was quite a while ago

[ghost123uk]

Never seen them moulded in before. Are you sure they are not just caps you can push out with a screwdriver?

I got mine from JK but it was quite a while ago

That's how I see it if I am understanding the question correctly.

I too got mine from JK = they broke the first time I went through a car wash
Got some used VW ones from a show last year = no problems

[Cruz]

That's why you should never drive through a car wash. Damages your paint too. I wash it myself but occassionally I almost buckle and let the Polski's hand wash it for a fiver.

[xpress]

Thanks, I will try and poke them out with a screwdriver, might be how they're moulded. I have.separate screw in covers with the fitting kit.

How did they break through the car wash, did they go brittle?

[ghost123uk]

How did they break through the car wash, did they go brittle?

I don't often use a car wash, normally do it by hand but this is my business van as well as our camper, and if it is very mucky and I am visiting customers it creates a bad impression, hence the car wash

The JK ones are just weak, the broke around the mounting bolts, they were only a couple of months old at the time.

[xpress]

I had another look at the bumper end caps, wishful thinking, I have about 200 years of rust to grind off the bumper first! anyhow, there's these long bolts that are pointed like a nail at the end with plastic washers, do you bash out these false caps and push these through, then tap them through the bodywork, and do them up with a nut on the other side of the bodywork? trouble is there is no nut for them in the fitting kit?

[Cruz]

Mine are fitted to the bodywork with self tapping screws, well they will be when I finally finish the roller painting

[yorkierob]

mine were bolts with a nut inside the bodywork and a round plug that pushes into the hole - needless to say they were VERY rusted and had to cut 3 of them off!! Just one of those many awkward jobs

[Cruz]

Tip: Stainless self tappers

[bigherb]

Think I have got what you mean, they are are called panel screws a sort of self taping bolt. Originaly they would have just screwed into the body work if you have enough of it left, but you can fit a nut and washer if you want. The plastic plug should just push out of the end cap.

[Ian Hulley]

Another tip ... set rivnuts into bodywork and use greased stainless socket heads

[ozzy]

Just Kampers ive ordered off them the following ....Hamburgh awning, lasted 2 days thermostat, wrong size, Bumpers sent them back holes 1/2 inch out and dented even cut my finger on a razor sharp edge. Mirror sent back cracked, bumper end caps crAp the only thing ive had any good was thermo mats.