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Merry F'ing Christmas - tetra - 12-26-2010
Firstly, Merry Christmas to everyone. Now with the bad news. Some idiot hit my god damn car today in a parking lot. Didn't see who it was, didn't leave a note (must of been the Grinch). All I know is it was a truck with a hitch that nailed my front bumper. He put a hole in my bumper the exact size of the hitch, a square hole.
Does anybody know a good spot to get bumpers? There's no 2009 Focus down here in the wrecking yards. The price for a new one is around 350-400 bucks without painting from the dealer. So I'm looking at a grand or more minimum. The bumper is more expensive than a god damn F-150 bumper.
I will post a picture of it later to see what you guys think, I don't know if it's fixable by a body shop because they wouldn't be able to re-use the piece that got punched because it's actually indented from the hit. If anybody has been threw this I would appreciate some tips.
RE: Merry F'ing Christmas - Jmountney1 - 12-26-2010
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I would think if its not to crazy of a spot with bends and stuff you could get a patch plastic welded in and then bondo over it probly less than a new bumper.
shitty deal thow
RE: Merry F'ing Christmas - Focus man. Focus. - 12-26-2010
Dude that sucks.
RE: Merry F'ing Christmas - mo_focus - 12-27-2010
Sucks man!
Look thru Kijiji, while back i had to fix grandma's cavalier and dealer wanted 850$, i bought one from kijiji and painted for her for all under 400$. Maybe you get lucky and find a focus part out.
RE: Merry F'ing Christmas - paolo - 12-27-2010
that sucks, but good thing it can be fixed or replaced. why not just call up the insurance and put in a claim? is there something your not telling us?
RE: Merry F'ing Christmas - Mystake - 12-27-2010
there's websites out there that can search multiple kijiji and craigslist regions at a time, try them for a 2009 part out.
car-part.com and small town/local wrecking yards are your next best bet. a place like standard auto wreckers is way, way too popular.
I got my engine from hilltop auto wreckers for 400$+tax. 40 000km. The next best (and very common) deal was on car-part, 400$ for 9x000km. The engine wasn't listed online, we called.
i checked rock auto.com, bumpers were 200-350$.
RE: Merry F'ing Christmas - tetra - 12-27-2010
(12-27-2010, 02:49 AM)paolo Wrote: that sucks, but good thing it can be fixed or replaced. why not just call up the insurance and put in a claim? is there something your not telling us?
What is that supposed to mean? I'm not going to pay a 500 deductible and have my insurance go up over this.. And it was in a parking lot.. Usually insurance companies are iffy with that. Either way, not going to make my insurance go up over this.
RE: Merry F'ing Christmas - paolo - 12-27-2010
Let us know how it goes. My Compare (Godfather) owns a autobody shop and he's really good at this kind of stuff, i can get his opinion if it is fixable if you got a picture