Ugh! You know that awful sound of your front fascia scraping on one of those concrete wheel stops that they put in parking lots? Well, I pulled into the pizza place last night, and heard that awful scrape. It wasn't any worse than any other time it's happened. And I figured that, once again, it was the 2" plastic guard that sticks down below my car's fascia. I went in and grabbed my pizza and paid, hopped back in the car and pulled out. S-C-R-A-P-E-! But this time it sounded worse than usual. So I get out to check. Sure enough, it was worse. Something had caught on the damn concrete wheel stop, and backing up ripped the passenger side of my front fascia off!! Broke all the little plastic clips that hold it on, and cracked the side of it where it actually bolts on.

Wonderful! A $10 pizza run is gonna cost me $1000 for a new bumper and aint job. Damn I just love it when I have a good weekend. Fricking wheel stops!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr

Thank God my Crossfire is put away for the winter. I would have lost it if it had been my SRT!

 

My thoughts too.

If that wheelstop was higher than standard, you should contact the building owner about getting reimbursed. There is a class action lawsuit against MB because of the design of the low frontend of the SL that catches onto standard wheel stops.

 

Well, the good news is that I did some searching online, and I think I can get the new bumper for about $200. Probably get it painted by a friend for about $100 - it's black, so no need to color match. And hopefully I can put it on myself. It can't be too hard.

 

Tom, if you get one and get it painted and want a hand putting it on, just let me know. Sometimes just an extra set of hands makes it a lot easier, or twice as hard you never know either way I like tinkering
If we get it back together, we can go for PIZZA

 

Was it the actual parking block...or was it the rebar that they use to pin it into place.

I've seen quite a few parking blocks with the rebar sticking up a couple of inches...bast@rds!

 

Thanks Rick! I appreciate the offer. I'll press one of my local friends into service, or I just might have the a body shop do it. It depends on how fast they can get the part and get it painted.

 

the srt6 bumper is only $250, paint is like $100, total is about $320-$400

 

It's a bumper for my Eclipse, not my SRT (thankfully)

 

Yea, but how was the pizza? A bit expensive. I guess next time you will call for a delivery.