How to Replace a Porsche 928 Bumper Shock

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With 35 days to go before this year's 66th New Hope Auto Show running in historic Buck's County, Pennsylvania, Rudy continues documenting his progress preparing Project Risky Business, our $4,000 1985 Porsche 928S Barn Find.

When it launched in 1978, one of the most distinctive styling details of the Porsche 928 was the smoothed-in body color, urethane front and rear bumpers. The 1978 Porsche 928 was the first car to incorporate such a clean design in an age of huge bumpers mandated by the U.S. Federal 5 MPH standard.

Unfortunately, while the Urethane bumpers are very resilient to dents and dings, a minor, slow-speed hit renders the bumper shocks to a one-time-only use

Such was the case on the driver's side of Project Risky Business, our $4,000 1985 Porsche 928S Barn Find. As part of the car's front-end restoration, Rudy sourced a used pair of bumper shocks on eBay that were ten percent of the cost of a brand-new replacement unit.

In this video, Rudy removes the lights housed in the aluminum safety bumper on a Porsche 928 to gain access to the bumper shocks.

Disclaimer:
If you haven't figured it out, Rudy is an amateur idiot trying to keep three aging Porsche running and looking good.

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Intro Music Credit:

Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

00:00 - 00:11 - Title Tile and Intro Demo
00:12 - 02:59 - Sourcing Used Number Shocks
03:00 - 09:43 - Light Cluster and Inner Bumper Removal
10:44 - 11:33 - Other Stuff To Replace While Bumper Removed
11:34 - 12:13 - Closing Remarks and Next Steps
12:13 - 12:34 - End Screen