I got home from work about 5 hrs ago. I immediately jumped into my car so that I could go get it washed because it is such a beautiful day. I went out and did a couple of errands. Well, when I got home I went to pull into the garage and I hit the front passenger bumper on the brick on the front of the house. Why did I hit it? Well, earlier this week my portable hoop fell over and I stood it up in the drive way. I figured that I could drive around it and make my tight turn into the garage. I thought that I was clear, obviously not after I heard the crunch. I immediately backed up, hoping for the best, I got the worst. I have about 7 two inch deep scrapes running horizontally. The paint and primer is gone and some of the plastic is gone. It's pretty bad because the entry way is brick. That brick tore that **** up!

Any clue what it might cost to get this fixed?

Any idea what is involved in getting this fixed?

 

its cheap its plastic...they just might fix it for free and jsut have it repainted for $100...

 

really? that's good news. I hope your right.

 

good time to get an 06 bumper or aftermarket bumper...it costs about $225 to get a bumper painted

 

any pictures so we can assess the damage. yeah and I think the minimum is about 200 bucks. only because of the material they have to get. labor isn't too intensive cuz its just the bumper.

 

640 for 06 bumper painted and put on,
285 bumper itself

 

I got a quote for today for $540.00! Geez for a couple more hundred I could get a new already painted bumper.

 

go to your local infinti dealer..ASK the svc and USED CAR dept. mgr......they have a bumper guy that comes in once a week to fix Used cars/ customers bumpers....@ my shop they usually charge $125-200 to repair

 

Sorry to hear of the scrape-up, -- good time to go aftermarket..

C.

 

This is aftermarket for me. I had the stock ugly bumper and just got this aero bumper 3 months ago.

 

I would recommend that you not get a plastic bumper repainted. If someone bumps it or pushes a cart into it at a store, etc it can make the paint spider out because it is a second layer. This has little to do with the quality of the paint job from what I've heard if it is a second layer. I'd just spend the extra to get a new one that came painted already. Sucks but better than paying the money and it looking like **** in a few months.

 

Thanks Cheryl. Can I borrow that extra few hundred from ya?

 

Post some pics

 

Ah, if I had it hun, if I had it.

Like I said though, I'd hate to see you spend a few hundred for it to be crap again in a few months. It's a hard choice though when you aren't just swimming in extra cash. This is why my side skirt is still messed up almost a year after the nasty scrap it took.

 

I'll post in a week. Out of town right now.