So I ran over a pothole and suffered a nasty scratch to the very right end of my front bumper (by the wheel). It's a horizontal scratch about 3-4 inches long and 1/4 inch wide. Unfortunately, the scratch is pretty deep. I was told by a friend that to fix it, a bodyshop may need to replace the whole bumper. Is this true? If so, I don't know if the cost warrants the repair. Anyone have any idea on how much such a repair might cost?
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$586.92
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No way. That's a steal! Thanks! 
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Quote: | So I ran over a pothole and suffered a nasty scratch to the very right end of my front bumper (by the wheel). It's a horizontal scratch about 3-4 inches long and 1/4 inch wide. Unfortunately, the scratch is pretty deep. I was told by a friend that to fix it, a bodyshop may need to replace the whole bumper. Is this true? If so, I don't know if the cost warrants the repair. Anyone have any idea on how much such a repair might cost? | A bodyshop can repair a scratch in the plastic but it will never be 100% perfect when they fill and sand. On a bumper I wouldnt bother because inevitably, something else is going to happen to the bumper (that's what it's there for).
Repair and repaint is still going to be a couple of hundred, so I'd do what I can with buffing and touchup paint and just live with it.
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Quote: | On a bumper I wouldnt bother because inevitably, something else is going to happen to the bumper (that's what it's there for) . . . . . so I'd do what I can with buffing and touchup paint and just live with it. | I agree. I have the sport model which is about eith tenths of an inch lower than the non-sport and I'd had the car no more than 48 hours before I pulled up too close to a cement parking stop in a parking lot and heard the scrunch as the underside scraped the block.  This kind of stuff just happens and if you replace it, something is bound to happen to scrape it up again. For just a 3-4" scratch, I'd just clean it up with some polish, use touch up paint and call it a day.
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Repairing scratches on front bumper