hey guys my car hit a parked accord pretty badly. no dents or anything but the paint chipped off horribly. the damage is to my bumper and to my oem kit. what can i do to fix this problem?

do i have to replace the WHOLE thing or can i get a shop to repaint it?

one pictures bad day

 

looks like the bumpers bent too...see the edge where it meets the quarter panel and where it meets ur rear lights. Something like that you'll need them to repaint the whole thing to make it look right.

 

your car hit a parked accord? what gen accord?
the painter is going to have to blend the paint if you don't wanna re-paint the whole bumper, so eh..
my bumper/a-spec got scratched when it was parked, done by a 95 accord.. was my brother who did it though

 

yeah my car was driving out on its own. its a 2003 accord champagne which is my moms car.

usually i have no cars on my driveway so i just back up freely

but my mom parked her car there and i forgot and didn't notice. just backed up straight into her car NOT FUN

how much will it cost approximately to repaint the WHOLE bumper and lip

and approx how much will it cost to blend it iN?

 

it depends where you go. it's a three stage paint so you'll have to pay for that plus what ever labor charges.. i say roughly ~$350 to ~$500. and your going to want them to do their best to match it <PWP pwns you

 

did you replace your bumper and kit?

or did you have it repainted

if repainted how good does it match?

 

Man, sorry to see that happen to your ride Jon.

 

dude this sucks anyways i have all this on video footage so all of you who want to suffer with my pain here it is

probably be saing NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO while watching the video

the accord took ZERO ABSOLUTELY ZERO DAMAGE no scratches no dents....

www.jrwphotos.com/sucks.wmv

 

Nice security cam. Yea, I was saying turn left...turn left....damn!

 

Arg.. fudge.. that sooo sucks. You were going kinda fast though..

 

lol

 

BLEH i just put the car in reverse and let it go

 

DUDE, don't you have a backup cam too????

 

it was a perfect match because the owner of the body shop's daughter has a WDP TL and she had got into a similar accident.

 

yeah i do but the camera takes awhile before it shows up

by that time i already hit the car

 

You gonna have to convince the bodyshop to try their best to match the original paint. PWP is very hard to match. I just got my whole front end repainted and the bodyshop did not match the factory paint. The original paint is more pearl than the new paint.

 

I did the exact same thing a few month back. Got it fixed by my neighbor, who owns a body shop, for $300 cash. He repainted the entire bumper and the color matched perfectly. Good luck.

 

sadly on the same day i backed into a column at my sisters apt.. i def need to install that back up cam now.. fortunately tho mines a lil more minor and more on the bumper and EDGE of the quarter panel.... im gonna try touching up and buffing when i have time. let us kno how ur progress goes!

 

Sorry to hear you damaged your car, but don't you think it would be smart to be looking back when you're backing up. There easily could have been a little kid behind you.

 

There's a delayed image coming from the backup camera? Is this from the initial start up or warming up of the device? (cause certainly a backup camera is intended to give you realtime images rather than delayed)

 

no its not a delayed image its real time

its just that when you start the car the navi screen shows up with that "ok" button

once you put it in reverse you gotta wait a few seconds until the camera shows up on the screen

by then the damage was done =/

 

geez u did a # on that. take it to a shop for a repaint and they need to realign the bumper against the 1/4 panel.

 

ohh man...i have something like that on my tsx...well my is alot worst then that..let me kno if u guys want pictures

 

i want pictures haha

 

that sucks! how much did it cost? I am thinking of doing the same thing.

 

damn thats a deep hit right there to the cheap ass paint acura has.wow ive never seen pain so sensitive as the acura .. well man i had a lil problem like that but much smaller.went to a reliable pain shop. they where chargin me 300.cuz they have to paint the whole bumper in oder to match the car. dont just paint the spots around the chip.i think is best if u paint thewhole bumper and back kit.. so u could get that. nothing never happend to my car look..