Yesterday night I was a club in Hollywood, and some idiot paparazzi rear ended me. He jumped out of his car to take some pictures and left it in drive (or perhaps neutral) and hit me and a huge *** 07 Escalade. We were both waiting for the valet (side by side) and his BMW rolled into the middle of us. The Escalade took a majority of the impact, but luckily all it did was scratch up the left side of my bumper. He had a 06 BMW 330 and it put a huge dent into his fender, but luckily somehow my bumper wasn't dented at all.

The Escalade was a driver for a celebrity, so needless to say that guy was pissed, but the paparazzi guy kept telling me he'd pay for it outside of insurance. I dunno what do you guys think? I have a brilliant silver coupe, and he put about a fist sized scratch into the lower left valance part. It's not super noticable, but my car was in pretty perfect condition for being an 03. Normally if someone hit me and it was an honest accident, I wouldn't really trip, but I'm pretty pissed this guy purposefully let his car plow into ours. I don't think I need a new bumper, but it definitely will need to be repainted. How much does something like that run? Should I just go through my insurance? Will it raise my rates at all? I haven't had an accident in 10 years probably (knock on wood)

 

should cost about $200-300 to repaint the front bumper, depending on where you take it. I got my bumper repaired, license plate holes and tow hook holes filled and painted for $350
-GP-

 

Dood whatever.. just let insurance deal with it haha.. or if ANYTHING make him pay for repainting it... i had an accident a few years back with my bumper.. basicaly fixing it and replacing were same prices.. around 800? im guessing if you jus thave to repaint it with no REAL body work done.. 400-500 max? but come on.. how hard it is it to put your car into Park... or at the very least, pull the e-brake.. its his fault and he should pay for it..

 

have your insurance take care of it. save yourself the drama.