BX - plastic or fibreglass?

[RKM]

I was having a chat with a fellow journo and need some clarification. Was the bonnet/tailgate etc on BX's fibreglass or plastic?

R

[docchevron]

Glass reinforced plastic, so both right kind of..

[Tim Leech]

I was having a chat with a fellow journo and need some clarification. Was the bonnet/tailgate etc on BX's fibreglass or plastic?

R

All tailgates are GRP as Chris mentioned, most bonnets are the same but some early and some late models had steel bonnets instead. The rear C post outer panels were also GRP as are the roof side panels.

[Oscar]

...which is why the magnetic L plates SWMBO bought didn't work

She doesn't need them any longer, by the way.

[Aerodynamica]

I was having a chat with a fellow journo and need some clarification. Was the bonnet/tailgate etc on BX's fibreglass or plastic?

R

All tailgates are GRP as Chris mentioned, most bonnets are the same but some early and some late models had steel bonnets instead. The rear C post outer panels were also GRP as are the roof side panels.

AND! if it has the tinted windows in the C pillars they're polycarbonate! and I think the BX was one of the very first cars to use polypropelyne bumpers that reformed their shape in small impacts.