Anyone have a complete AUII/III XR nose cone? Preferably in Perth?

Chrysler · 20-04-2022, 02:30 AM

I am absolutely spewing, as I have just finished an almost complete rebuild of the wife's XR8 Rebel and went for a long drive today and promptly put the nose through someone's tow ball after some drongo took off at the lights and then suddenly hit the brakes half-way through!

My fault – shouldn't have pulled up so close behind him at the lights.

Can anyone help? It will be an insurance job, so I can pay market price for a good one. I'm in Perth but I can probably arrange a pick-up and shipping inter-state. Ideally I also need the air deflector that goes underneath the front spoiler, too, as I lost mine.

This was the car on Sunday:

And this is the front end today. I've been told it can't be repaired:

prktkljokr · 20-04-2022, 10:55 AM

Send me a PM and ill give you a friend of mines number, He is a Bumper re-conditioner and plastic repairer with 40 years experience, i have seen him repair worse.

RAC send him HSV and FPV stuff to repair, I watch him repair stuff I would throw away every day at work.

auxr · 20-04-2022, 11:39 AM

As above - Joondalup Smash repairs repaired my front end (AU2 XR8) via insurance claim following someone reversing into front end - way worse than the above.

I would say the above friend would have plasti welded - result back to brand new.

PPS - tried sourcing new/second hand front end ten years ago - result - trying to find hens teeth.

Good luck though.

Chrysler · 20-04-2022, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by prktkljokr

Send me a PM and ill give you a friend of mines number, He is a Bumper re-conditioner and plastic repairer with 40 years experience, i have seen him repair worse.

RAC send him HSV and FPV stuff to repair, I watch him repair stuff I would throw away every day at work.

PM sent. Thanks heaps guys. I'm south of the river, but once the radiator is fixed the car will be perfectly driveable, so I'm happy to travel or pay for a visit to Welshpool where the car is at the moment.

I also realised the damage is behind the number plate, so once fixed it will probably be hidden anyway.

Chrysler · 20-04-2022, 01:24 PM

Sweet, so it looks like I can get this fixed. But if anyone still has a nose cone in good nick they want to sell, I might just buy it as a bloody spare!

I can't believe how hard it is to find AU parts now. I mean, they're not that old . . . Were they really that unpopular? I love AUs. Fark, I'd buy more if I could. Not sure where to put them next to all the Valiants, though, LOL!

GTENVY · 30-04-2022, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Chrysler

Sweet, so it looks like I can get this fixed. But if anyone still has a nose cone in good nick they want to sell, I might just buy it as a bloody spare!

I can't believe how hard it is to find AU parts now. I mean, they're not that old . . . Were they really that unpopular? I love AUs. Fark, I'd buy more if I could. Not sure where to put them next to all the Valiants, though, LOL!

I've found exactly the same here in Perth. Seems to be a fair bit easier to get AU parts over East - I see AU XR6's getting wrecked all the time.

Glad to hear you're getting the bumper fixed easily enough.

Rich

Chrysler · 02-05-2022, 04:37 PM

So thanks to @prktkljokr I found a top bloke to fix the front end and the old girl is back to being restored to her former glory. Hopefully won't be too much longer. Thanks for everyone's help – much appreciated and makes me feel a little better (but not much!) about what I did. Still kicking myself . . .