So I busted my bumper up a bit.

[twitchee2]

Today after school I was driving home and I rear ended another student, arg. No one was hurt at all and it was a very minor "bump" but enough to do some damage. Anyway, it messed my bumper up and that was about it (no damage to the other car). I thought I would take this as a learning opportunity and try my hand at bending it back to shape. I figured I would take the bumper off and go from there. I cant really make it worse. I was looking under very briefly and I saw 2 bolts, 1 on each side. Are those the only two that need to come off? Then I think i will use a rubber mallet and see what i can do to bend it back. Are there any suggestions on this type of thing? It would be greatly appreciated. Heres a pic of what it looks like. Kind of dark its in the garage. Thanks for any kind of help.

 

[gizmopt2002]

As far as the chrome bumper goes I think you will need alot more force than rubber mallet, for the body you can probably do it VERY delicately. You will probably need to re-align the headlights and move the turn signals and such back into place. All in all it will probably take a few hours so I would do it in your free time. As far as the bumper, I have no idea how many mounts there are on there.

 

[SportRunner]

I would say just buy one form www.partstrain.com for $84.87 and put that new one on. I tried pounding out mine on my '94 and it just was a waste of time. I ended up buying a new one anyways...

 

[twitchee2]

Thanks. I did a quick search on ebay and was able to find the same thing for cheaper. here are somemore pics if anyone is interested.

(the dent in the very center is from my grandpa when the truck was brand new)

Thanks for all the quick responses.

 

[Elton]

as you can tell the factory bumpers suck also what kind of car or truck did you hit

 

[twitchee2]

as you can tell the factory bumpers suck also what kind of car or truck did you hit

Audi A4.

 

[H2OU]

What did you do to the Audi?

 

[Elton]

set of both airbags ?

 

[twitchee2]

There were a couple of scratches, and i popped a piece of trim off that just went right back in. Not even dented up at all. No the air bags didnt go off. The plastic isnt even touching the AC dryer.