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Re: Engine Bay Body Rips
Hi Guy's whats interesting i went out to the desert last weekend in my friends FJ 2008 we were third in a convoy of vehicals following a Nissan Patrol safari and a OLD golloper 2 we traveled about 30k cross some really fun desert NO JUMPING had to dig and tow all vehicals quite a few times when we got back to the road we poped the bonnet on the FJ to connect the Air pump and noticed that the Drivers side inner wing was rippling we checked the vehical for other damage the front bumper was cracked but when checking under the car and the front crumple zone rail on the front frame NO DAMAGE at all on then digging around the offside we noticed that there is a scuff mark on the inner win where the Drivers offside wheel has come up at some point and contact with the Innerwing what it looks like to us is the BUMP stop has failed to stop the exccessive travel of the wheel its hit the inner wing the energy has trantered up to the upper lip of the inner wing and has caused a ripple! for front bumper impact to damage the upper inner wing that would mean that the front rails would have to move or the body shell would have to move NO that has not happen all the relevent bolts are tight so that means the issues have to be local to the innerwing side were the damage has occured to cause ripples something has to move to cause the flexing that causes the ripple! Long statement but needed to get my thought out to you guy's BTW i have a FJ as well 2008
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