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Sun Oct 13, 2019 7:51 am
Just a thought. Your insurance should cover road hazards / damages. Chances are, you have a deductible. If that deductible is $500, you're better off going through insurance. Just the parts alone for a bumper cover + mouldings and side bits, air deflector, bottom panel, sensors, paint, and labor will be well over $1,000. That goofy little air deflector between the bumper bottom and undercarriage cover is over $500 (I just replaced mine when it scraped over one of those cement parking lot gizmos).
If the radar sensor is flummoxed, now you're over $2,000 easy.
Here is the list of what my car needed after I rear-ended a Toyota Land Cruiser at about 20 mp. You won't need all of this, but it shows what the body shop charged my insurance carrier:
Front bumper cover: $539
Bumper brackets / seals: $64.20
Lower air deflector: $631
Bumper grille assembly: $146
LKQ grille w/o sport package: $439
Lt headlamp assembly: $1629
Rt headlamp assembly: $1629
Lt headlamp rubber seal: $18.50
Rt headlamp rubber seal: $18.50
Lt headlamp bracket: $54
Rt headlamp bracket: $54
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Parts total: $5,222.20
Then comes labor:
Algn hood: 1 hour @ 42 /hour: $42
Body labor: 3.5 hours @ 48 / hour: $168
Paint labor: 3 hours @ 42 / hour: $126
Paint supplies: $93.60
Add for pearl coat: $150
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total paint / body: $579.60
And we cannot forget bloody taxes: $347.94
Drum roll please ....................................... $6,147.54