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Old May 21st, 2022, 20:38   #3
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Originally Posted by Ulrikas PA View Post
You have my sympathy! Mine was like this back in 2012 (sold in 2015).

It was impossible to find a new one and the trouble is that even if you find a car at a specialist breakers, most were in the same state once the bumper cover was removed. Also the rot gets to the bolt areas.

I found a passable one eventually and hammerited it to within an inch of its life.

I think you'll have to go online, find who has 480 breakers and then take your tools with you if they will let you have a look yourself? Has the Volvo breakers on the A1 near Bedford got one - Lakes ?
Sadly, this is indeed the case and the experience of most of us. Granted, yours is quite a bad one but the only options are to try to find a better one (which will probably still not be great) and treat/hammerite it or else take the one you have back to whatever solid metal is left and then get welding. They were a very poor design by Volvo and deteriorated almost from day 1, so you chances of finding anything better than half-decent are negligible I'm afraid...

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