Trebbor

I was trying to work in a tight garage last night and pushed my 2008 RX back so that I could get at the windshield. I forgot that I had done that and opened my overhead garage door. One of the hinges on the door gouged the bumper leaving two 1/8 inch tracks about 3 inches apart in the middle of the bumper. I'm trying to figure out the best way to "fix" the problem. I'm not interested in having the whole bumper resprayed at this time as there is no other damage. Besides I've seen too many bumper resprays where the color match is not great. Any ideas? I thought that maybe using some pinstriping might look good. Is there a product I should be using to level the surface? Thanks for your help. Bob

kiwi

there are alot of funny bumper stickers

mmlex1987

I wouldn't put any stickers on there. I would like to see a picture of the damage to see if there is any way at all to make it less noticeable until properly repaired.

kiwi

well, if it is not going to be fixed properly it will still look stupid, may as well be stupid and funny

mandyfig

Post a few pics and we will see what we can recommend.

Hayk

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Just leave it and hope that somebody rear ends you slightly

ecount00

now that's thinking outside the box. sort of.

mandyfig

^^+1

Just like this weekend, ATL was frozen and there were idiots out there who did not know what black ice was, kept on tailing me!

I kept on saying...hit me sheethead, I will have a new set of bumpers and some!!!!!

kitlz

Gotta love the responses here. In other forums, they would say, ah, it'll buff out

Claude7629

Same thing happened to me. I took it back to my dealership. They contract their body work outside the shop so I guess you could find a good body shop yourself. I got the repair made in one afternoon and $275 later I could not see where the repair was made.

Trebbor

Thanks for all the comments, tongue-in-cheek or not. I'll try to get hold of a camera this week and post a picture. As I said in my original posting, there are 2 vertical gouges each about 1/8 in wide separated by about 3 inches. The depth of the gouge is about 1/16 in. I thought that I should fill the gouges with bumper repair epoxy just to get rid of the gouges. I could then either use touch-up or possibly pin-striping (chrome or ?) to mitigate the damage. Or I could just take it in for repair. I just hate dealing with body shops as I'm never pleased with the quality of work, no matter how "recommended" the shop is. There's always overspray, crud, paint matching problems, etc. Bob

Fivewilds

The rear bumper is easy to take off. Take the bumper to a body shop and have them repair and paint it. However, give them the serial number so they can vindicat it. That way they can tell where the car was painted and can use the correct formula. Many cars have different foumulas for the same color. I am an old 40 year retired body man. This should cut your cost down.

968racer

There are mobile paint vans that can fill and airbrush any imperfections. It's very common to do on very minor rear ending accidents. The color matches perfect an is impossible to tell that anything was done if done properly. I've had it done on my car & have seen it done on one of my coworkers. The cost was about $250 through a dealer. They can be tough to find but Google and you may be able find someone that does this in your area. Otherwise the dealer may be able to arrange to have it done.

mandyfig

For $300 I think you can end your misery.

I am the same, when someting like this happens, it eats me alive!

968racer

+2 I lose sleep over stuff like this.

I also would rather have the scratches there than to have pin striping.