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Among many panel adjustments that were needed on my 2019 Z06 was the rear bumper so I tackled that today.
I hope this this helps someone else on the Forum.
First off, I read the rear tail light bezels were a major pain to remove. I watched some videos that showed a couple different ways to remove them but in the end after studying them I found out it was best to reach up into the top corners of the each tail light (there is clearance) and pull them straight out, then work around the bezel to completely remove.
There are many threads showing which screws to remove when pulling the rear bumper off. I won’t go into that.
But I will add a tip that I seen on a video that helped me, since I was not removing it fully from the car and did not need to disconnect wires, a box under the bumper for it to sit on worked great!
Once you get the bumper pulled back slightly, you will see the brackets that holds the bumper to the rear fenders. They look like this.
Almost everything I read said there was no adjustment and that is somewhat correct. You will see in this picture that mine was adjusted all the way up from the factory which would not allow my bumper to go up any higher
What I did was take a flat file and remove some of the area where the squares align the bracket. I used a rat tail file to open up the holes slightly. That gave me some additional adjustments.
The panels are not rubbing against each other, if you zoom in you can see they are exactly like they were from the factory just even now. Lol!
Originally Posted by PatternDayTrader
Nice !
You got it to fix perfect you perfectionist you.....
Keep the tutorials coming as you work your way around the car.
Thanks, I hate being so particular. I own a Detail Shop here in St.Louis which over the years has brought my attention to things most people don’t notice. I went to a Corvette only are carshow this weekend and almost every car had panel alignment issues and these were show cars!
08-26-2018, 10:05 PM
How to: Rear bumper adjustment.
