Minor dents in bumpers

[GangsterOfLove]

The PO used either sound or feel to park and the result is I have a dent like this in 3 of four corners. The chrome if fine but the metal is dented.



I see trucks running around that advertise "bumper repair" - can they take out dents like this? Or am I better off to try and find used replacement pieces (they should be easy to find - seems like everyone but me hates the chrome).

 

[sport05]

You can buy new aftermarket bumper ends for 60 bucks a side. Don't know OEM prices. Probably from jack-knifing a trailer

 

[IBallEngineer]

The chrome if fine but the metal is dented.


I see trucks running around that advertise "bumper repair" - can they take out dents like this? Or am I better off to try and find used replacement pieces (they should be easy to find - seems like everyone but me hates the chrome).

The companies advertising bumper repair are the spot painting idiots who paint a spot on a PAINTED bumper and it looks marginally better than the scratches. In the millennial world, bumpers are made of urethane, not steel.

The OE bumpers are made of HSLA which is very hard to straighten. I just bought a new aftermarket end for my wife's runner, because some pole got in my way. Stupid pole.

Yeah, I hate chrome too, unless it's on a Chevrolet made before 1979!