Believe it or not, just literally backing out of, and putting the car back in the garage. Snow everywhere, driveway had a lot of ice on it.
I was cutting the car to the right hard to position it into it's parking spot and it kept going straight! I mashed on the brake pedal because I was heading right into the side frame of my garage door….but it didn't stop! Mind you, I never hit the gas this entire time..car was at cold idle still. The front brakes locked up but the rears didn't, so it pushed the front tires sideways on the ice towards the door frame.
t MIGHT have been going 1/8 of 1 MPH…it finally stopped. I didn't even think I had hit anything, but it was seriously close - I knew that.
So I cut the wheel back, put it in reverse and re-aimed the car and pulled into the garage. And here's what I found:
So after being pissed off at myself, the car and everything else…I waited and I initially figure I can just touch this up with spot paint…which I still think I can, but it won't be perfect and I doubt I can hide it completely…
So - not being a body/paint guy, I thought matbe a shop could feather this scrape out, add the paint feather everything out again and clear coat it so it's invisible….not the case I found.
So I have an estimate from one shop for over 1K to remove the entire bumper cover, re-paint it and add the stripes back/reinstall. I thought that was out-f'ing rageous…so I went to a shop I had a cople vehicles repaired at in the past….I know they do good work.
They said the same thing! To fix it right, the whole thing needs to be removed and repainted! He also says any clear coat they put on will eventually begin to peel up after a few years. At least the price was a LITTLE cheaper…860 bucks!! :disgust:
So - I'm hesitant to file a claim with my insurance over this…500 dollar deductible….guy at the shop says they shouldn't raise my rates. This great insurance company I have said that about 10 years ago when I hit a deer in my truck…guess what? They raised my rates.
What do you guys think?
-Spot paint?
-Make a claim and get her done "the right way"
-Pay for it myself and lick my wounds..lol
BTW, I don't even have 8K miles on the thing…but I guess that doesn't matter...
I was cutting the car to the right hard to position it into it's parking spot and it kept going straight! I mashed on the brake pedal because I was heading right into the side frame of my garage door….but it didn't stop! Mind you, I never hit the gas this entire time..car was at cold idle still. The front brakes locked up but the rears didn't, so it pushed the front tires sideways on the ice towards the door frame.
t MIGHT have been going 1/8 of 1 MPH…it finally stopped. I didn't even think I had hit anything, but it was seriously close - I knew that.
So I cut the wheel back, put it in reverse and re-aimed the car and pulled into the garage. And here's what I found:
So after being pissed off at myself, the car and everything else…I waited and I initially figure I can just touch this up with spot paint…which I still think I can, but it won't be perfect and I doubt I can hide it completely…
So - not being a body/paint guy, I thought matbe a shop could feather this scrape out, add the paint feather everything out again and clear coat it so it's invisible….not the case I found.
So I have an estimate from one shop for over 1K to remove the entire bumper cover, re-paint it and add the stripes back/reinstall. I thought that was out-f'ing rageous…so I went to a shop I had a cople vehicles repaired at in the past….I know they do good work.
They said the same thing! To fix it right, the whole thing needs to be removed and repainted! He also says any clear coat they put on will eventually begin to peel up after a few years. At least the price was a LITTLE cheaper…860 bucks!! :disgust:
So - I'm hesitant to file a claim with my insurance over this…500 dollar deductible….guy at the shop says they shouldn't raise my rates. This great insurance company I have said that about 10 years ago when I hit a deer in my truck…guess what? They raised my rates.
What do you guys think?
-Spot paint?
-Make a claim and get her done "the right way"
-Pay for it myself and lick my wounds..lol
BTW, I don't even have 8K miles on the thing…but I guess that doesn't matter...