Iain, I've just seen your thread regarding your FMIC, and somthing struck me...(Hang-on, that was at work last week, when a 4 M pole fell on me head!! :shock: sorry I digress) Well you seem to have a large protruburance comeing out of the your front!!! :shock: ................Circled yellow in the pic ;)

 

 

Well I don't seem to have one :cry:

 

 

So can you tell me what it's for, and do I need one, or why wouldn't I have one? (92 Jap Import)

 

:duffer: :bow:

do you have a 99spec front bumper and who fitted it?

 

I believe thats where the front slam bar connects,

its for his sat nav :rofl:

Iain, I've just seen your thread regarding your FMIC, and somthing struck me...(Hang-on, that was at work last week, when a 4 M pole fell on me head!! :shock: sorry I digress) Well you seem to have a large protruburance comeing out of the your front!!! :shock: ................Circled yellow in the pic ;)

 

 

Well I don't seem to have one :cry:

 

 

 

So can you tell me what it's for, and do I need one, or why wouldn't I have one? (92 Jap Import)

 

:duffer: :bow:

 

LOL well TBH Dave I really don't know as the car belongs to Meanmachine and I took the pictures today when I was at PPS,I will ask Peter tomorrow;)

They're the 'bumpers' AFAIK.. Absorb minor impacts by retracting into the matching hole in the main body..

 

Probably removed because either you've a) got a front bumper that doesn't fit over them, or b) the car had a bump, and they didn't bother to replace them (IIRC they're a 'use once' item - once bumped, they need replacing)..

Heres a pick taken when I was almost finished with the service work back in January...

 

 

All that was left to go on was the new 99 spec bumper. So a few things come to mind here, 1st when I took the bumper off last year these 'Bumpers'/brackets were never there in the first place, 2nd I cant quite tell how they would fit with the fog lamp bar there as well, and 3rd there is a black plastic cover over the left hand hole but not one over the right hand hole :confused: So this is starting to look like it's had a bump at some time and they've been left off! This could also explain why the cars has had a partial re-spray at some time, which caursed me a lot of trouble (and money) when I had the 99 one sprayed off the car :headvswal

 

Thanks for your help guys, much appreciated :bow:

I've just done some 'Poking' around on the net, and it could either be an age issue (mine being the older style) or it could be a country issue (Japan being different, maybe)

Either way looking at pics of the type I have, and other peoples, and finding pics with the same set-up as with these additions, there is a different design to the fog lamp bar. My type has a much deeper back to it, so that it fits to the bodywork, and the other one is shallower to allow for this 'extra' part.

So it looks like I've just answered my own question (with all your help :bow: ) I don't have them, I've never had them, and it looks like I don't need them :D

 

Again thanks for all your help.

LOL well TBH Dave I really don't know as the car belongs to Meanmachine and I took the pictures today when I was at PPS,I will ask Peter tomorrow;)

 

Is meanmachines one of the red SWB zeds? A lot of work going on there :bow: .

Have they started mine yet? :D

Is meanmachines one of the red SWB zeds? A lot of work going on there :bow: .

Have they started mine yet? :D

 

Yes the LHD one.