Control shutters on front Bumper broken

[2022Premium]

Overall ended up going pretty smooth.
about 15 minutes overall, mostly figuring out what I couldn’t see until I had the fins out.

Two of the fins were popped out of the actuator arm. Once I reconnected everything correctly, it was obvious how it was supposed to go.

Thank you!

Let me know how it goes. If you find the fin is broken like mine was, you may find the missing piece inside the bumper you just have to reach in there and feel around. Then you can either plastic weld it like me or if you have a 3D printer those aosk models work really well. I printed one as a test (bought a printer recently) and it would have worked beautifully.

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[jakedeg]

I was able to snap in the bottom vane, then the top, but to put the middle one back in I really needed to doors to open.

Really nice work on the weld and the fix! Could you say a bit more about how you snapped them back in and installed them? I am trying to figure out how to get my shutters reconnected to the motor peg without snapping the plastic and breaking them more. I just posted about my issue here: https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...ive-grill-shutter-protector.15212/post-859617

Thanks in advance!

 

[pr0t0c0l_dr01d]

Really nice work on the weld and the fix! Could you say a bit more about how you snapped them back in and installed them? I am trying to figure out how to get my shutters reconnected to the motor peg without snapping the plastic and breaking them more. I just posted about my issue here: https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...ive-grill-shutter-protector.15212/post-859617

Thanks in advance!

Hey there. There’s not much to tell really, the parts flexed well enough to bend and seat them without them breaking, but I had to take it to a supercharger to get the doors to open to put in the last one. It was the only way I could maneuver the piece in place. The challenge was that the actuator arm is only held in place by the doors themselves. I did bottom, top and then middle if I recall. I thought I was going to have to fumble around with it for a while but surprisingly it popped right in and it hasn’t given me any trouble since.

 

[HuntingPudel]

Well. I just broke my right front shutters. Oddball parking stop that hit my splitter as I was jamming on the brakes in a gravel parking lot at ~2 mph (so I slid into the stop). My adaptive cruise is borked too now. It wants to drive through cars that are in front of me. I suspect the front radar and possibly the right radar are out of whack.

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