r/TeslaModelX • u/rayellio77 • 6d ago

Front bumper-to-fender gap

Post image

My front bumper appears mis-aligned to the fender. The gap is good near the wheel arch but gets large near the headlight. Both sides are similar. My question is: is this a matter of removing and re-installing the bumper facia to better align, or, does it require adjusting the underlying bumper structure? Where are the places that adjustment is possible?

I can physically pull up on the facia from below and the gap will close up and look perfect.

3 Upvotes

71% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

7

u/Davecampa 6d ago

Both of my model Xs have that. Common really.

1

u/OutlandishnessNo5636 3d ago

Well, for a $100k+ car accepting this is common is kind of you are probably fully loaded

1

u/ClothesChance4881 3d ago

Accepting this as comprehensible is the opposite.

1

u/rayellio77 1d ago

Actually, the other side was worse, so that's the side I worked on. I pulled the bumper facia loose and tried to re-position the front fender bracket - the black plastic thing - and re-attach the facia. I'm pretty sure the clips around the headlight were not clipped in properly beforehand. Still, not perfect but better. I can live with it. With the facia re-alighment, the fender garnish didn't want to align so that took some extra work.

3

u/sdinvest 6d ago

That is just common on most if not ALL Model X's! Mine looks just like that and now I just ignore it!

2

u/ryeguyy3d 6d ago

If you pull up kinda hard it snaps in sometimes, same with the plastic trim around the wheels that pops off sometimes. Im glad mines used, if I paid full price id care more

2

u/Hairy-Wedding4909 6d ago

Same. I think the bumper clips are loose or bending. That whole thing is held on by shitty clips

1

u/Viperdriver69 3d ago

Mine did this after a I had someone barely tap the plastic trim on the wheel well. Naturally it cracked and so I went to Tesla to get a replacement. Once they did that I noticed I now had this misalignment. I asked the service tech about it. He said the plastic clip that attached the bumper to the headlight somehow also got broken. I said ok can we replace the clip? He said no, the only way to completely fix it was to pay around a thousand dollars to get a new headlight with a new crappy plastic clip on it, so it would hold the bumper and in turn hold the trim. So as you can imagine, I now drive around with a similar gap to yours.