Ok so this is the sad story...Thursday morning I drive to Brooklyn where I work (I work from 10-8, and have to leave my car parked out all day in a crappy neighberhood... to make the story short someone backed up into my car (most likely a SUV with those metal bars around it, and damaged my passenger side left bumper...

I posted a picture of the damage below...




Give me some advice on what I can do, I was thinking of purchasing CARBON FIBER AERO AIR DUCT INTAKE & putting it in the place where the Suv did the damage...

or should I replace the entire bumper?







let me know what you guys think, any opinions what else can be done...

thanks

 

just get a new bumper. you will be putting an intake duct on the wrong side of the car. its both rice and wrong.

 

btw the damage is only on the passenger side, driver side is okay...

I had this bumper on my car for less than 1 month, its a 2007 base bumper I was planning to the the fog light conversion to my TL you can see the wires and everything was ready...

 

yea Sixsixfour you're right I thought about that... but I its my only option since a new bumper will cost my around 200-300 and then painting NBP... setting me back around $700

 

i believe rice and wrong are the same?

new bumper would def be your best choice

sorry to see that happen

 

thanks 4 the advice guys, damn really hate to spent money again on a new bumper and then having to paint it... but thats NEW YORK CITY 4 U!

 

I feel ya. My bumper just got messed up a couple of days ago by a stray tire flying towards my car

 

I had someone hit and run my car a while back but insurance covered it. Not sure if it's different in your state or not.

 

Yeah i would replace the bumper. The intake duct would be on the wrong side

 

I hate parking in Brooklyn. Everytime I go out to my car I have to check to make sure that no idiots hit me. I say go for the new bumper. Keep the busted bumper and then when the new new bumper gets hit you have a choice to put on the best of the two busted bumpers... Did that make any sense??? Good Luck.

 

I want to get one of those huge ass tow hooks on the front bumper just so when I park in the city and someone wants to use my car as a bumper car I rip a nice gash into their bumper.

Oh and to the OP, your better off getting a new bumper or ebay or the black market and painting it again.

 

OH MAN! THAT SUCKS SO BAD! My bad I was away this weekend...I think you tried giving me a call yesterday and the day before..I was away in RI...But man...I feel you....never park in Brooklyn again.

 

How about a junkyard? You maybe able to score a bumper cover for cheap.

 

eur0diesel,

What happened to your car is definitely a drag, but not all NYC drivers are as inconsiderate as the guy who hit you. I find owners of SUV's, Beamers, and Benz's to have that 'I'm Superior To You' attitude the most. They think they have a 15" d|ck because of the kind of vehicle they drive. My cousin's friend has worked the corporate customer service lines for MB for over 20 years and says most of those people suffer from that exact mental illness. From my experience, Brooklyn and Bronx drivers tend to be more like that on average versus the rest of the 5 boroughs.

Good luck with the repairs ...........
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Hey man, pm me I got a NBP bumper cover sitting around. Its off an 04 though.

 

NYC is a war zone... I parked my car in Queens... a very nice neighborhood, for just 1 hour and I find that someone dented my rear passenger door... good thing that I already had an appointment at a bodyshop to do some custom work done... it was still irritating that it happened.

You wouldn't need a new bumper. The existing can be repaired and repainted... no more than $300 to fix... which is probably less than you deductible.

Good luck...

 

sounds like you need full coverage insurance with a low deductible to park in NYC.

 

damn tht sucks

 

new bumper def the way to go

 

David its cool, I'm just gonna have to replace it, u saw my car few weeks ago and my conversion process... now that went down the drain, lol what can u do we live in ny... :'(

 

Rx companies should come out w/ a pill for these a-holes right lol...
thanks i'm on it calling j-yards and pm'ing people hopefully i get lucky and find a good condition NBP painted bumper

 

thanks for your post, what body shop do u use (name, location)?
& btw where in Queens did you park, I lived in queens for 15 yrs damn sorry that sh** happend to ur car...

 

man sh*t happens. I remember some jackazz rear ending my bumper while parked. left 4 holes meaning he rear ended my car not once but twice. And this was a week after i had purchased my tl-s. cost me 300 to repaint the entire bumper and mold the holes.

 

yeahhh NY its a horible place to park ur car and trying to put some money into ur car without having a driveway or a garage , i hat to see new demegess on the bampers every day but the front tow hook its a graet idea for pplz in ny

 

what's to say it won't happen again?

 

wherever you have to parallel park you have to keep a vigil for idiots parking their car.
I live in queens too and know what you mean. A lot of people just dont care for others property.

 

go to Lazio Collision 148-15 105th ave Jamaica NY 11436 and ask for John. tell him eric sent you with the white TL.

they do amazing body work. 25 years in bussiness!! i refer everyone i know. its kinda far away from where i am but its worth getting the job done right the first time.

 

Dude, that sucks man, especially when you just got the new bumper on there... im with you on crappy NYC parkers, i got mine messed up but definitely not as bad as yours.

I say just get it fixed at a body shop, or if its too pricey fix up the paint scratches and put a nice bumper sticker in place until you can afford the fix.

 

People with the piece of crap cars do the same thing. My aunts used to live in Bay Ridge and one of them had a two-door Oldsmobile. She'd double-park and just throw the door open, not caring what sort of damage it might do to other cars, under the theory that a car can't survive a week in Brooklyn without getting some sort of dings or dents. They now live out at Breezy Point and I don't know whether they've improved their attitudes on this issue. I hate taking a car into New York City if I can possibly avoid it. (Plus at least half the people on their block in Bay Ridge didn't put the cards with their addresses on their windshields when they double-parked on alternate-side parking days, which makes it a mega pain in the arse when you want to get your car out but you don't know who's double-parking you in.)

 

what a coincedence i find one of my old pictures showing how bad NYC drivers are at parking their cars.
The green car is my previous audi.