Repair of plastic bumpers

[Manks]

Hi All

Like a twit I reversed into a neighbour's car in my 06 Range Rover. It has cracked my bumper (about 6 inches). I have a deliberately high excess on my insurance so I doubt I'll claim.

I expect a new one is expensive, but I am guessing that there are people that can repair and repaint them. Has anyone any experience of this please?

If it cannot be done invisibly I'll bite the bullet and buy new.

Manks

[belleair302]

Costs will depend upon where you live, but there are some top bumper specialists around and most bodyshops will do the work too! Thesedays with plastic parts being so common repairs are easy and invisible.

[dilbert]

A local garage drove one of their cars into me on the forecourt.
They wanted to repair it themselves, obviously. They said they'd fix the bumper, not replace it.
I declined, but I couldn't find anyone locally who wanted to repair the bumper. I did try too.
Ended up taking it to an organisation, that I would have thought could have done the repair, if they'd wanted to. They had something like 250~500 cars out the back awaiting some sort of repair, or repaired and waiting for collection. Huge place - accident repairs to new and modern(ish) cars only.

It may depend on the type of damage, I had a rough hole punched rather than a split.

Edited by dilbert on Saturday 20th February 21:55

[kbagnall]

i have done many plastic welding repairs, as long as the proper materials are used to do the repair and you find someone who knows wot there doing then the repair will be 100 percent invisable! also if done write the repaired area will be the strongest point of the bumper.

[Manks]

Thaanks for the replies guys.

My local body shop tells me they can repair it for about £200 painted - which sounds fair.

Manks