Oh, for the golden days of the standard toyota indestructible black rubber bumper. Alas, they are gone, replaced by the big plastic monster....
My son, learning to drive my 5-speed 03, tried to park too close to my rock garden wall. Wall is fine, Bumper is scratched, not MUCH damage, just scrapes that reveal the black color beneath the beige of the car.
Three different body shops all told me the same thing. The ONLY repair is remove the entire bumper, heat it, paint it and put it back on the car. At a cost ranging from $340 to $400.
Seems to me that there might be a cheaper, easier way that I could do myself. I was toying with putting bondo and the scratches and then using the left-over paint I got from a previous repair when a teenage driver tried to share one lane with me.
Any thoughts?