While parking in a parking garage, I got too preoccupied with the car on the right which was just a couple inches off the lines. As a result:



Pillar rubbing. Grrr... yea, it's pretty bad. Shouldn't have concentrated on the parked car which was just a couple of inches off the line and disregard a PILLAR on the left.

Anyways, I can't turn back time and I've already beaten myself up a trillion times so, what are my options to getting this fixed?

 

That looks pretty bad... is the paint chipped off? If it is, there is no other solution but to repaint the whole bumper... but if its not chipped, you can buy some of the stuff they sell out there to fix it.

 

the paint is chipped . its some weird black surface

 

That sucks. I think the only way to fix it is to repaint the bumper. The same happened to my cousin (yellow IS300) last year and she had no choice but to repaint and retouch the damn bumper for like $700. He scratch was worse and deeper though.

 

Yeah, under the paint it's black. It cost me around $400 to repaint my rear bumper, and I had a few really deep scratches. I got hit twice in about a years time. First time I took the insurance money and pocketed it. Second time I got the bumper fixed, so I ended up making $400 by living with the first scratches for a year .