OY! My SO backed into my car. Caved in the front bumper and cracked it too. I popped the dent out (it was the radius of a small melon). So what should I expect here? Repair and repaint? Replace front bumper? No other visible damage that I can tell.

 

I closed the garage door on the rear bumper of my 996 leaving three DEEP parallel scratches. Body shop fixed it (fill in and paint) as good a new. Make sure that they intend to remove the bumper in order to repair. You can save a few bucks if you do so yourself.

 

I would take full advantage of the SO. You could fulfill all of your wildest dreams...Oh yeah and I know I'm getting old, but I can't see anything in that pic?

 

they will repair the bumper.

 

Thanks guys. Seal grey hides imperfections well (which is why I have it), here is an extreme close up. Porsche dealer quoted me approx $1,600 to replace and paint. Anyone recommend a good body shop around Princeton, NJ?

As for taking full advantage of the situation. I am pondering taking this opportunity to "repair" my car with maybe a GT3 or RUF front bumper. Anybody have any recommendations for a new front bumper?

 

What, or Who is an SO?

 

Significant Other PC for "my bee-atch". :-)

 

Still none the wiser here.

 

Oh! My house would not be a fun place to be if that happened... yikes!

To fix that bumper you're probably looking at $1000. It looks like it's going to need to be fixed, then painted and they probably need to paint the entire bumper and they'll definitely need to clearcoat all of it.

 

SO = Significant Other. Wife.

 

Thanks riad for the translation! Sorry Scouser, I was speaking "American".

 

$1600 sound way outta line, so would $1000. I'd say $500 would be reasonable, the only problem is, it's so hard to get reasonable prices when the car is a Porsche.

 

I think $1600 sounds reasonable if they are going to *replace* the entire bumper. If $1600 is just to repair and repaint, that's another story.

 

$500 if it was just a repaint, but with the damage an independant will probably charge close to $1000 give or take 10-15%.

 

Call Dave Sano of Sano's Cutom Paint in Dayton NJ (732-329-1313) about 15-20 minutes from Princton. Stop by and have them give you a quote.

I had a similiar situation but it was my rear bumper. I have decided to have my front bumper resprayed at the same time, so I removed the rear/front bumpers/lip myself, did the body work myself on the rear bumper, DA'd both bumper using 600 grit paper. Sano's will have the responsibility of shooting all pieces with a 2-stage Dupont paint.