I bought a rear bumper which was okay, but I sheared a mounting tag off when I was removing one of the rusty mounting bolts on it. I'd weld a new tag on but the heat will shag the chrome, so I might try that 2 pack 'cold weld' adhesive. Two of the original mounting tags are fine, it will just be the two outside ones I'd be replacing.

Anyone had any experience with them? Are they marketing bollocks or a viable way out of a fix?

TIA

I have used it (to fill somebody elses bad drilling) in a 940 head through a water way and it works well. It does set hard and appears to be heat resistant.

I dont know about it welding two bits of a tag together though. Dont know that its desined to do that.

Have you thought about getting it welded with a gas MIG - almost no heat transfer past the point of actual weld ?

I was going to "weld" a new tag onto the bumper where the old one came off, rather than weld onto the old part of the tag still on there (It's just a ridge of the original weld really). I have a gas MIG but I'm pretty sure it will 'blue' the chrome on the other side.

Okay - I dont know, I am not much of a welder. I just watched someone do a body repair with MIG and he boasted about the almost nil burn or distortion

I don't think this stuff is designed for shear loading. I think you will have a bumper with nice chrome dragging all over the freeway once it snaps off.

From what I have seen of it, it is better used to plug holes and that kind of thing, but not hold a mounting tag on.

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