[IceMan8247]

This weekend while backing up, I clipped a snow bank (or should I say ice berg) with my front bumper near the passenger tire wheel-well.

A piece about the size of my fist cracked off the bumper - at the bottom where the bumper meets the thick rubber piece that lines the wheel well.

At first glance, it appears the entire bumper will need to be replaced.
-Could a body shop replace the missing plastic?
-Is the dealer the best place to make the repair?
-How much do you think it will cost?

pics to come...

 

[TopEnd]

Go to a Auto-Body shop first to get an opinion.

BTW post some pictures..

 

[Diny]

Yes yes I'll be watching this thread. I was working on my fog lights yesterday and found a big-*** crack on the bottom of the bumper.

 

[Cantresjr]

my bumper got cracked going to Daytona. i found that ummnitza has a good price for the front bumper.

 

[TopEnd]

my bumper got cracked going to Daytona. i found that ummnitza has a good price for the front bumper.

Any links on that???

 

[Cantresjr]

http://www.umnitza.com/product_info.php?cPath=73_141_38_64&products_id=1154

there's your link

 

[Silver_Menace]

Check with your bodyshop first. I had a small chunk missing from the same area. I was having the stone chips removed from my front end when my autobody guy told me about the missing piece. He fixed it at no extra cost.

 

[cbakk]

Front bumper Replacement

I hit something on a road trip to LA (from Tucson) and put a small hole in the middle of the lower lip of my bumper (stock bumper)- so I took it to the body shop and they said it had to be replaced- can't be patched (which I expected as it is quite fractured although the hole is smaller than a golf ball). This will run $1,125 to replace and paint (includes $500 for bumper from dealer and this will be done at dealer body shop). I have been looking for about a week for a bumper on this board, bimmerfest, ebay, umnitza, Bavarian AS, etc... and there are a lot more people looking to buy bumpers than sell them so a lot of people have some sort of issue with their bumpers. Granted, umnitza is $300 but I have read their products are not OEM quality so I was hesitant to go through them sight unseen without much history or record of use with their bumpers.