Bumper/tailgate issue

[rangerfan]

Originally Posted by London Lad

They don't 'pop' on their own, someone is hitting it.

I beg to differ. Two days after returning home with my new bumper courtesy of my $tealership (it took almost a week to replace the bumper because it took two tries to get the Carbon Black paint to match!?!? wtf?!?!), the clips 'popped' on their own. How do I know this to be the case? The car was parked in my garage and had not been driven.

And know that the $tealer wouldn't have replaced the bumper the first time if there was any evidence whatsoever that the car has been hit. There was not a mark or scratch or indentation of any kind on the bumper, other than the popped clips which led to the deformed top portion of the bumper, and the scratched lower tailgate. My SA and the service manager checked the car like a used car manager appraises your trade in, looking for any and every mark that might help them justify the lowball trade-price. They found NOTHING, because there was nothing to find!

I say again, it's a horrible design, something my SA was only too happy to admit after he realized this was a defect and not an owner trying to pull a fast one on the BMW warranty overlords. His words--"I am popping these clips back in all the time. BMW needs to change this design." Take it for what it's worth.

[London Lad]

Well I have had my bumper right off mine and I can see no way it could come unclipped on its own unless the clips were broken, the bumper was deformed a lot, it was hit or it was incorrectly fitted.