Front bumper damaged from collision

[yerEVan]

That’s a ding. Not an incident. Have a good trip.

 

[boriszima]

You’ll get some if you parallel park often and others touch you. Don’t bother

 

[TLLMRRJ]

Also just to throw it out there if there’s a Tesla center near you a new bumper is about 1100$ installed brand new already prepainted. That’s assuming no radar/ sensors were damaged, for me it was just a small crack near the top and other person paid but it was much less than what conventional body shops wanted (around 2.5k)

Good to know - thanks! That's a pretty good deal for being pre-painted and installed.

I may need to go that route if I want to fix the horrible paint mismatch issue from the factory of my front bumper, if Tesla won't cover it. I don't know yet because the SC won't talk to me about repairs until I officially own the car in the Tesla database, which I don't according to them. That's a different battle.

If they let me keep the original bumper for that price, I can probably sell it to recover a good chunk of the $1100 out of pocket.

 

[wdskuk]

Looks minor. See if you can buff all the scratches out first if there isn't any cracks in the paint. However if those indentations bother you then you will have to fill it and repaint the entire bumper.

 

[tvad]

... if those indentations bother you then you will have to fill it and repaint the entire bumper.

Most often, bumper indentations are corrected with a heat gun and shaping tools. No fill, except if required for final surface smoothing. What the mobile bumper repairs guys do is magic.