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I managed to shear off the plastic bumper of my 2006 Xterra tonight. It is in 1 piece, barely scratched, and looks like I can reattach it with some fasteners and about 2 hours of elbow grease.

OK...What kind of fasteners. The Nissan website is USELESS.

(without a pic--if you were going to install a heavy duty grill guard/skid plate, you'd be starting with a stripped frame about like I'll be driving to work tomorrow.) [wallmad]
 
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Zip ties [hihi]j/k if you ripped your bumper off, and it is still in one piece the mounting brackets must have broke, either off the frame or off the bumper and are still atacthed to the frame or to the bumper. so either way you would have to buy or fabricate your own mounting bracket to reinstall hard to say unless I could see it . is their any metal to the bumper or is it all plastic?
 
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Tie wrap thats your only chance then go to dealer or call them on the phone and ask them to fax you a photo or e-mail a photo explosion of the parts book micro fish and you can select any part that pertains to the parts explosion that might be damaged.

If you think you can handle the repairs yourself I applaud you but if your not a mechanic or at best a collision repair person why would you think you can do this type of repair?

If you think it takes 2.0 of elbow grease to clean up the bumper then it probably may very well need some type of repair and refinish if your particulair.

If the bumper flys off and causes another accident either with your car or someone elses you'll wish you went to a body shop I would think.

Never actually seen a bumper cover get ripped off that didn't damage the tabs or holes the fastners secure the cover to the back reinforcement or supports or the fenders or quarter panels in the rear..

BTW did you lose the Absorber behind the cover as well? Might want to look into that.

This comes from a Heavy Equipment Specialty Adjuster who also had body shops when I was younger.
 
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OK..let me clarify.

The FRAME is fine. What happened is that I pulled out of a parking space and turned too soon. I caught the edge of the bumper on a concrete retaining wall about 3 ft high (JUST the right size to NOT see it!)

I was going about 1 mph, nice clean "pop" and off it came. NO frame damage, no other damage.
 
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If it's a plastic bumper and your bumper "popped" off, chances are some of the tabs that hold your bumper on are shot. Best thing you can do is try and get your hands on some sort of clips or use zip ties. You don't need Nissan clips to hold it on. Any clip that fits tight in the whole will work.
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Exactly.

It's just a plastic fascia. I doubt many of the plastic tabs survived, but if enough did, go to an automotive store, or even home depot and search through the automotive fasteners until you find something that matches closely to what was on the truck. They're probably plastic pop rivets or possibly a small metal tab with a sheet metal screw. They're cheap too.

If the mounting tabs on the fascia didn't make it, you should get a new fascia. You could gypsy rig it by rebuilding the old tabs with JBWeld or a like material, but replacing the fascia is the right way to fix it.
 
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