SunnyPanx

Dear all,

I have recently hit a cat doing 80 km/h it was chasing another cat couldnt do anything abt it , anyways since the front bumper is mostly plastic , part of the grill pushed back breaking a few plastic hooks on the way , and the front lip support to next to the grill by the airflow ducts broke off, showroom quoted $600 to replace the entire bumper.

Just comes to show that the bumper is quite weak , but avoid cats nonetheless .

FinaLpeace

Poor cat...... I would feel more sorry for the cat than the cost to replace the bumper, but is the front end really that weak? It's a cat that weigh less than 50 pounds.

The other day some idiot woman who obviously cannot drive struggles to park in front of me and ended up hitting my front end. I tempt to honk her, but didn't expect her to hit me after moving back and forth for 2 times coming close to my front end. Stupid of me, but from now on I will always honk at idiots who park in front of me. She had a huge space too.

Well story ended where my license plate was damage and my grill had a tiny spot of paint chip off, but the part of the grill where it was hit (right side) would definitely be loosen up by the impact compare to the left side. Anyway just saying how even a 2.5k 1999 honda accord can't even destroy my grill, maybe it's different when you're going 80 km/h XD.

Poor cat Btw $600 only to replace the bumper? Does the bumper include the grill as well? Since you mention the grill is damage. If it does then that's a good deal I guess.

rayaans

TBF its designed to break. How else do you think it got 5 Star EURO NCAP? Its safer for the pedestrian and has nothing to do with how strong the actual structure of the car is

Ramon

I hit a raccoon doing about the same speed in my 2IS. Cracked the bumper just above the fog light and loosened the driver side fender lining.

997c2

I also feel way worse for the cat..but to address the OP, check this out. I was switching cars into the garage 2 weeks ago, putting my GF's in. I left my car in park (so I thought) and stepped out. Unfortunately I was still in D (coming from a manual tranny...what an idiot!) and the car nosed about a foot at idle into the brick wall. Scratched the bumper cover and grille. As a punishment for myself, I went the full fix and rather than repair the bumper, replaced both the bumper cover and the grille, I replaced both with OEM Lexus parts. Of course it had to be painted. The body shop gave me a pretty hard time saying that I was going over the top replacing the bumper cover as they felt they could repair it "good as new", but I wanted it totally new (since the car is...new)
Lexus quoted me right at $1500. The indy got it at $1150. Atomic Silver.

997c2

By the way, the grille is separate, the grille surround is separate, the emblem is separate.

SunnyPanx

the $600 is just for the bumper the grill and everything behind it was intact luckily

Aeromotive

Do these prices include labor?

997c2

My prices include labor

Hermes

Definitely thought this story was going somewhere else. Thought you were going to tell us how you got out of your car and it rolled into a cat lol.

997c2

Hahaa! I see that my lead in was sort of vague. Glad (but not glad) it was the wall