Advice/Suggestion needed *minor body work
 

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I'm a retard and scraped my car getting into my garage last night. It was late and I haven't driven her in over 2 weeks so I guess I forgot the measurements/proportions of the car and driveway.

I'm wondering what I can do to fix this problem. It's a long scrape pretty much from top to bottom. I'm thinking about going to a body shop to get it repainted but I'm debating whether to take the whole car there or just bring the bumper to them or if there are any other alternatives. The car has <200 miles :icon14:

Pros of taking entire car -
- can check to see if color matched properly
- easier transportation-wise (don't have to carry just a bumper around)

Cons -
- risk of overspray
- improper uninstall/reinstall of bumper

Here's some crappy camera photos I took while in the garage.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...5-19103105.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...5-19103137.jpg

Please help! Thank you. :tiphat:

Do some due diligence on a few body shops, and do whatever the shop you decide to use suggests. They will probably want the whole car.

Find a reputable shop & talk to the shop owner about the risk of overspray before hand. They might take the bumper off to fix it anyways, but this way they can match your paint color better.

The bumper has to come off for repair,the bumper will be the only thing in the paint shop(hence no over spray to car),they don't need the car for color match.

I did the same with the rear bumper in the parking garage at the office.

Body shops in the area all wanted $1300 to sand and repaint bumper...

...I just spent $500 and installed a backup camera instead! ;)

:iagree: since your car is black i would remove the bumper and take it in....other colors might be difficult to color match without the car.