smackboy1

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.

Electric Lizard

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.

wross996tt

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?

rcg412

they will repair the bumper.

smackboy1

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?

Riad

What, or Who is an SO?

Joe2000C4Cab

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

Scouser

Still none the wiser here.

Riad

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.

Riad

SO = Significant Other. Wife.

Joe2000C4Cab

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

marlinspike

$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.

Joe2000C4Cab

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.

Riad

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

aben8057

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.