Someone at work backed into my front bumper. Put a pretty good crease in it. I think rather that turn in to my insurance, I will replace it myself.
Is this a fairly easy swap?
Where is a good place to order from?
Thanks

 

Is it painted? I would look at salvage trucks first, you may get lucky and find a match. Most likely just a few bolts and some fog lights to remove.

 

It's chrome.

 

I would check a salvage yard or a local bumper repair facility, then dealer.

 

It is pretty easy to change out.

 

Why wouldn't you turn it in to insurance? It's going to be more than your deductible (I had the same sort of incident with a chrome bumper - about a $1200 repair at my dealer's body shop), and it was hit and run so it shouldn't count against you with your insurance company.

 

Very easy to remove and replace. Comes off with a few bolts

 

Cause it ain't worth it if your insurer raises your rate for ghost accidents.

 

Yes the bumper I found 2 of them....455 ebay...576 oem
I asked here first. My rate would go up, I asked my agent.
I thought the bumper was going to be way more expensive.

 

That's exactly what we went through. Lotta redneck truckers with trailer ***** in the hitch that haven't been used in over a decade back into vehicles where the wife works. I replaced the front cap twice because it only cost about $200 from the u-pick-it, but the rear cap was going to be a lot more so I checked... yeah, they would have raised the rate at least enough to cover their cost. Since the caps used were less than the deductible, that's the cheapest route.

I don't view insurance as a straight-up, use it because you pay for it service. I view it as an option for taking care of impact damage. Whatever turns out to be the best financial deal is what I decide on.