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I was detailing my DSRT a few days ago and noticed this on my driver's side bumper:
(there's another small patch of wrinkling a little lower on that same side):

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Which is by chance almost exactly what happened to my '19 Stinger GT some time after I bought it new:
(and curiously enough, also on the driver's side)

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Neither of the cars had "wrinkling" appear anywhere else except on the cars driver's side bumper.
What gives? Anyone know or have a guess?

thnx
 


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RetiredFirefighter said:
I was detailing my DSRT a few days ago and noticed this on my driver's side bumper:
(there's another small patch of wrinkling a little lower on that same side):

View attachment 169031

Which is by chance almost exactly what happened to my '19 Stinger GT some time after I bought it new:
(and curiously enough, also on the driver's side)

View attachment 169032

Neither of the cars had "wrinkling" appear anywhere else except on the cars driver's side bumper.
What gives? Anyone know or have a guess?

thnx
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It's called old age...my wife 's always bitchin bout it....
 


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Paint on the Durango’s is a big issue, especially around that time
 


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Paint on the Durango’s is a big issue, especially around that time
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Thing is, it also happened 6 years ago on my '19 Stinger GT in the same way and in the same area of the vehicle.
And both the Stinger and the DSRT are black (it never occurred with my other non black colored vehicles).

So I was at a car meetup and I talked to my friend who is an engineer, who also restores cars, whose son owns a body shop.
He looked at it and in less than 60 sec said he thought he might have the answer.

He said look for something in your neighborhood that would throw a focused reflected beam of some sort into an area of my driveway (flagpole, antenna, etc).
He said he could see where spots of wrinkling appeared in a horizontal direction across the surface (suggesting the movement of the sun was involved).

He might be onto something.
He also said he didn't think it was repairable, that a new bumper was probably needed.
 


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