To quote Travolta (Pulp Fiction) .... "It'd have been worth them doing it, just so I could have caught that _____ _____ __ ____." Is it worth bugging insurance about, or just deal with it? Wasn't a shopping cart or anything like that. Only thing I can think of is someone clipped it while turning around in the lot, etc (church parking lot) and yes, it would be easier to see how bad it is if the car was clean. not much to be done there. :roll:
Is it dented? Or just paint damage? Either way, it's preference. If you chose to get it fixed through insurance, it will cost you. If you fix it with your own funds, it will cost you. I was rear-ended by a Fed-Ex truck and chose to leave it. It's cosmetic, so it was just my preference to not fix it at all. It doesn't slow me down any.:biggrin:
scratched up pretty good, didn't really look for cracks or anything like that on other parts of the bumper... so I guess I would say mostly cosmetic, which.. you're right, doesn't really matter if the car runs. by the same token, if I have to do all this 'extra' maintenance (during the less-sucky times of the year) to keep the car looking clean, the scratches can/will/do drive me nuts.
I hear ya! Waxing over them in the summer does suck. But so do the rock chips, door dings, and scratches. I've learned to live with them. A quick story that comes to mind. After choosing to 'not' fix my rear bumper, I was parked in a parking garage in downtown St. Paul about 8 months after. As someone parked next to me was backing up, they cut the car to soon and sideswiped my rear bumper down the side. If I had fixed it, I would have been fixing it again within the year! Oh, in addition, they cut it so soon that they swiped my driverside rear rim and took some paint off of mah Rotas!
Ouch. This happened to my girlfriends LGT last year. Looked bad, but with buffer and some handy dandy 3m super grit compound, most of it came out. Cant see anything from three feet. Hopefully it will work out the same in this case
Dang, sorry bout that. By the looks of the pix it doesn't look too bad, I second the buffing ideas. It looks like most of it would buff out.
Sorry to see the damage. I got a door ding that can't be just popped out at 3000 miles so I know how you feel. At least it is only on one panel. That will at least keep the overall cost down if you fix it.
I'm thinkin the car's cursed. Bought it after someone else's lease. Someone else hit a deer with it (didn't know til after the fact), a month after I get it, it gets hailed on, and now this. Entirely too much excitement for an 06, that I've only had for 6 months. I'd say something about the wheels haven't fallen off yet, but I don't want to jinx it.
god i hope you were there to tell them how stupid they were for doing that. i went off on some 40 yr old lady when i owned my last car. i was walking away from parking my car in the back of a lot and here comes some lady in a little civic and she swipes my rear driver side corner when she parked next to me. i turned around and went up to her door and politely asked her if she could help me with something. she obviously didnt even know what just happened. so she got and i we walked over to the scraped corner "whats that!?" i asked and she goes "....looks like you hit something..." thats where i went off on her! haha i pointed out the scrape it left on her passenger side. and then shes stupid enough to say "it could have been you that hit me!" OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was parked! i even was in the back of a parking lot just so i wouldnt have this happen but she decided that its so trendy to park in the back with the cool kids. she ended up crying and asked me why im so mean....but then i asked her why shes so stupid lesson learned....people will hit your car no matter where you park and no matter how far away you are. s
hit and run in a church parking lot? i'm not very religious, but that's one sin i'd never commit! theres just way too much bad karma there, yikes! as for how to fix... i'd give the cleaning, buffing, light sanding a try. one of those might do the trick, and nothin to lose.
how deep did it go? if its not all the way thru it could potentially be a small deal, not always a huge deal
I would try using some light cut buffing compound, and see what it does. Might make it look a ton better.
3ric/Brian might need to chime in here, but I think a bumper cover runs around $160. Add paint and you should be under $360. But if most of it sands/buffs out, rock it and save the cash.
