SE Spoiler skirt side mounting enigma

[LotusMonkey]

Hi,

Hoping someone can help with a piece of information about how the 90SE spoiler skirt (containing foglight) should be fixed to the main bumper at the sides. The printed parts list that I have (Aug 91 remarks edition) does not cover the SE foglight spoiler skirt on page 10.23A. The standard Excel diagram does not detail how they are fixed, though perhaps there was nothing there before the SE, as I know the skirt has a lip at its rear edges that hooks over the bumper section.

Basically, there is a mounting of some kind on my car, but I am trying to figure out if it was original and what the arrangement should be. Pics below, and this damage was caused when some [insert expletive of choice here] decided to lift and tow via the rear bumper 15 years ago.

I don't know how complete the online parts list is but if it covers this kind of thing with images, I'll of course happily stump up!

Duncs

[Pete Boole]

In your last photo you can see the rusty remains of the factory fixing. It is a captive (mild steel!) stud that fits through the original bumper to fix the sides in place. Hopefully someone will have a photo of it.

Pete

[Alan_M]

Plenty of info in Tony’s post here - viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11643&start=90

[Alan_M]

I don't know how complete the online parts list is but if it covers this kind of thing with images, I'll of course happily stump up!

It is well worth having access to the parts manual. Helps show how things go together. Often also gives specs of screws, nuts, bolts etc so can buy correct ones.

On top of that it’s what helps to pay to keep this forum going.

[LotusMonkey]

Plenty of info in Tony’s post here - viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11643&start=90

Thanks Alan, I’d read this post before, but having revisited it slowly I can see the description of the fixing at this point being outlined, as well as it’s flaws

On the parts list as I had a 91 print of it, I thought it would have everything I need. I’ll revisit that. Also, is the parts list the only way contributions can be made to running the site? Duncs

[MetBlue]

I thought I must have had a photo of the top hat fixing I made ( or at least photo's of the remnants of the very corroded originals that had broken apart), but having searched through, sorry to say I don't.
I do recall though that I remade new ones, then bonded onto the bumper before ( like Lotus), re-inforcing the bond with some fibre glass over laid.
The top hat was 25mm wide and I think I started with a strip around 70mm long. Welded an M8 nut to the middle ( with hole through for the bolt), then bent down 90 degrees leaving the nut on a 25 - 30mm "platform". Then bent each down turned leg back approx 90 degrees to create the top hat. I recall one leg was slightly longer than the other ( maybe one around 10mm, the other 12 -13mm), meaning to get a flat "rim", the 13mm side would have been bent back slightly less than 90 degrees and the 10mm side slightly more than 10 mm) - I hope that makes some sense. If not and you're planning on making , drop a note and I'll sketch and post.

I then bolted the top hat bracket to the upper bumper part, applied epoxy and positioned the lower bumper in the correct relative position to get the right alignment. Once the epoxy was set, I removed then re-inforced the fixing as needed.

My thread talks and shows also a black Nylon spacer I made to sit between the two bumper parts, but that's not standard. My hope is that it will stop the two bumper parts moving and miss aligning when I land hard on the inevitable sleeping Policemen ( As standard, the M8 bolt is in quite a large clearance hole, so there is nothing to stop the lower bumper moving other than the clamp force of the M8 bolt on the bumper.

Tony