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After all these days and months of waiting, my car has finally landed, picked it up and drove it to the compliance workshop, everything is all good, mechanical etc.....except......my FRONT BUMPER! GRRRRR!!! HMMPH!!! me not happy!! have a look urself :P

Before (in Japan):

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After (in Aus):

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notice le problemo?? %&@#$!%$#&%!!!!

:P

oh man, u just imported a car and ur worried about a chip that size? man that car must be f**king imac if ur so worried about something like that.

u would have cried if u saw what my car looked like when it came off the boat.

No shit Steven!! GOOD IDEA!! :P You want my car? for two dowlla? It's a crap car now! Imma perfectionist!!

hehe Stewy, nah, I wouldn't cry, but I would prolly suffer from a heart attack...... :P

But yeah, I am not worrying much, just exaggerating things a little hehe :D

shouldn't cost me too much to repair that, oh yer, need to change thrust bearing too, cuz my car is making weird cluck cluck cluck noise whenever I step my foot down the clutch pedal :P

Any idea how much would cost me to get them fixed?

Lovely looking beast - i'm really coming around to the 33 GTR looks in that silver especially - maybe also 'cos everything on the 32 getting old!

If its a standard clutch, change that at the same time if you got any bucks left because it wont last long when your testing out that magical 7k RPM launch >_<

I paid $1100 installed for an Xtreme HD single plate in 05 and it's still clamping as well as ever. I guess thrust bearing would probably be around $3-500 depending where you go - pivot ball snapping a few days before christmas cost me $500 but that's more because of when not what.

I reckon ya can fix that mate, i had a friend with an rs turbo liberty that copped a massive bit taken out of his front bar(being plastic) and the plastic welded it and re painted it and it looks fine.

them 33 gtr bars are worth a dollar!

that sucks .... but it is nothing worse than you will do to it the first time you hit a decent spoon drain or carparking bump when you aren't expecting one. The Chips Away (or similar mobile duco repair mob) - they specialise in that sort of thing. The whole bar doesn't need to be repainted.

i understand what this guy is going through

i was going nuts over a little dent left by the tint professor......there are still scratches and chips on my car that i need to get rid off - i cant stand it not looking perfect

I can understand too. I bought my car in perfect condition with not even a car park ding on it.

Then one day I notice a small chip out of the paint from mrs effing who gives a sh*t's door.

Now it pisses me off everyday haha

Edited by Hillzy

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