Cost of repairing and painting front bumper?

Don't walk, run away from that shop. Outrageously high quote.

 

...curious to find out which shop it is - is it a body shop or repair shop? There are 4 body shops in Austin that qualify as good body shop and that regularly work on high end cars (...not just MB, Porsche Lexus, really exotic stuff), i can't see any of them charging that kind of money unless the whole bumper is being replaced and painted with unobtainium paint...

 

If you want to make the trip down I can get it done same day

 

Hi could you tell me where you had your bumper repainted at thank you. My cell is 909 9214572.

 

As a restoration shop owner, I can tell you $500 is too cheap. Cheap materials and a quick fix at that price. Those quoting similar work done at that price-- curious about how long ago that was.

Removing the bumper and bringing it to a shop will almost assure you a mis-matched paint. Repair, repaint, wet sand and buff, still will be at least 8 hours-- plus materials.
One half pint of red Dupont basecoat alone recently cost me $105.00. No clear coat, no primer or value shade sealers or reducers, just the color.

Shops need to make money. But with that said there is always someone who will meet your price expectations. Yet make no mistake quality is not going to be had for a song.

As for the "Ferrari Tax": This is probably somewhat justified as a Nissan Altima owner that drives the car daily is not going to have as high of expectations as the Ferrari owner. The Ferrari owner will usually want a show quality job. That takes time every step of the way.

 

Austin? Have you checked with Berli's in RR or Precision in east Austin? Both do hi-line cars. Berli's did my entire front clip to perfection to eliminate rock chips and install skid plates

 

I wanted to take off the front license plate and fill the holes and paint. The quote I got was $500 but they wanted to leave the bumper on. Never had it done.

 

Woah, 5 grand? You can do a major for that! Take the bumper off yourself. I got my 348 bumper re-glassed and resprayed for about $800 from Boch Collision, the body shop for Boch Ferrari Maserati (FoNE) up here. Bobby Brown was great to work with and his guy did a pretty good job. There was a little shrinkage into the v'd out cracks but the finish was good. I also removed the PPF myself. They let it air set so we only had to take off the main lower strip and not put it in the kiln. Another dumb teenager crossed the center line and whacked me a couple weeks later. Snapped the bumper in half but I made sure I put the shims in right (2x) and it did it's job. Car saved my life. $800-1000 should cover it. For gouges in the black area, just do it yourself.

 

Every location / shop is different.
Do your own local due diligence.

Good luck

 

My bodyshop guy will paint your whole car for $5500.00

 

(Apologies for hijacking your thread on the same issue)
Can any member in the UK recommend:
1. UK based rear bumper repair firm (this isn’t a scratch but a full-on tearing off of the corner of the bumper (though I do have a spare); and
2. Paint shop for my spare rear bumper- currently primed in grey (annoyingly its original colour was Rosso Corsa!)
Thanks.

 

It's conceivable the shop didn't really want to do the job & just quoted a inflated price to appease you.. For whatever reason...................