Huge bumper scrape!
 

I was driving and miscalculated the curb and I ended up driving up the curb!

I really really scraped the buttom/front really bad. What can i do to fix this???? Or do I just need to replace the whole thing? I mean, it's not THAT bad, but the fact i know its there bothers me.

Thinking about getting a five axis body kit now just to get rid of it. LOL!

OMG! that's awful!! totally replace it for sure!

meh - don't worry 'bout it. now your car's got 'character'.

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If you can't really see it, it mostlikely better not to get it fixed. Chances are the repairs will look worse in the areas you can see, becasue they will have to blend the paint to these areas.

Cheers
GREG

I feel like if judging curbs isn't a strong point for you, getting a front lip will only piss you off even more.

Your not the only one bro.. the same thing happened to me earlier. under the bumper is scraped up. it was PAINFULL!!!OUCH FACE!!! and i caught a flat yesterday...wtf. bad week. not cool lol

A good body shop should be able to do a spot repair, but it won't be cheap.

I know how you feel man. I did it twice and it drives me crazy every time even though you can't see it. I'll probably get it replaced eventually.

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If you have a bumper medic or bumper doc in your area, this is basically what they do.

I did that to a parking stop at Wawa. I went over the concrete stop and heard the scrape... I immediately went in reverse and pulled off the parking stop only to find out it ripped the bottom of my bumper :(. So I purchased some sand paper and fiberglass jb weld and did a stitch repair. No one can see the damage but I know it's there sooooo I bought a carbon fiber front lip and now I feel better and oh yeah I park about 3 feet away from curbs and parking stops >_<

that sucks, last week I started the car in my driveway, went in the house to grab something, when I came out my car had rolled into two other cars in my driveway, causing a dent in my door, and a scratch in the bumper, apparentlyI put the emergency brake down:bonk: Then today a huge chunk of a truck tire was in the highway, giving me a tire tread pattern from bottom part of bumber to the middle of the hood and a nice dent as well. Gotta love rt 287...

How bad is the scrape as seen from the front? If it's not noticeable, I say just leave it be - nobody sees the bottom.

Also, maybe get a cheap lip to cover up any scrapes, and to protect from future ones.

Buy a body kit, but don't buy the whole thing if you don't want to pay a lot

You will go broke chasing every bruise bump and scrape. Sand it down and spray it with a close color. If it's on the bottom you will never know. I "fixed" a scrape I had on the Fit with some similar colored polycarbonate paint I had laying around.

Im assuming that you're on stock height when you scrapped the front. I'd suggest not to get the 5:ad kit. I have the kit and im dropped on tien h-tech, im scrapping the "fang" part of the lip often when i go in and out driveways that have steep inclines or the cement block guards, whether i slice the incline or not. If you do get the kit, be sure you've got touch-up paint ready so you can just cover up the scrapped part. Whenever you're dropped you are bound to scrape one way or another.

This happened to me too as I was going down the curb ramp leaving the parking lot at my work. The ramp is super narrow and pretty steep so there's no way to come out at an angle. I was going super slow but I still heard the scraping noise. When I got home and checked it out I saw that it was on the flat bottom surface where it's impossible to see unless you are looking under the front of the car. Sure I was upset but as long as it's not noticeable then it shouldn't be a big deal.

And the moral of the story is, Back into your parking spaces.

It's ... A... Car... Fix it then wrap it in screen protectors and bubble wrap.. Or just not care get over it and drive it.. Your first oppss already happened and out of the way.. Just enjoy the car now :)

I scraped mine on my parents driveway and the black on white made it stand out pretty bad. I got a touch up paint kit from Subaru for $20 and did some sanding and then brushed on the paint. It's not perfect but you'd have to be looking at it to tell it was repaired, instead of drawing the eye like it did before.