viguera

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Some imbecile left me a nice present on my rear bumper tonight... a nice bump and there's a not-too-sizeable dent in the damn thing. I was gonna take pictures but I'll probably wait until daylight...

It's in the corner, so it's more of a dent/ding than anything else, and it LOOKS like I should be able to pull it/push it back out from the inside somehow... if I could get to it...

Yeah, I probably should just have a body shop do it, but it really looks like it's not a big deal since there are no apparent scratches (must have been an old car with rubber bumpers or something) and I might just forgo the rear bumper altogether later if I put a body kit on the thing...

So... anybody has any ideas about how hard it is to take the rear shell off the bumper? I'll get some pictures in the morning, and hopefully I can do some before/after if I figure out how to take it off...

Thanks

DeusExMaxima

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go to body shop. Not too expensive

us024077

had same thing on my car after i backed into a phone pole. just get under there and use the handle of a hammer, or some other piece of wood and push, pry it own. the bumper is pretty accessible. you might even be able to puch it out with your hand.

wsu

I have something similar to this that I need fixed. The body shop estimate was $300-$400.

Roshan

I have worked at a body shop before... small dings can be removed with heat.... get a hair dryer or a heat gun.. and heat the area where the ding is.. and gently push it out..

DeusExMaxima

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As long as no paint has been removed you may be able to get it back in shape. Some a$$ valet guy backed my max into a car cuz the license plate bolts gouged the paint. I was installing my stillen body kit anyway so i had body shop take out the gouges. Looks great now.

Bobo

Take it to a paintless dent removal place like Dent Wizard since the paint isn't broken.
Alternatively, take it to a place that specializes in bumpers like Chips Away (not sure if this is just a Canadian franchise).

Avoid body shops like the plague for a repair like this!

viguera

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I tried nudging it out by hand and it was actually hard as hell... the handle to the ice scraper thing that I have in the trunk did the trick though... looks almost like new. When I have some time I'll work on the rest, but IMO it wasn't worth taking to the body shop for...

http://www.viguera.net/images/maxima/05-07-05_1107.jpg

It's much better now though, and the paint wasn't damaged or anything, just "bumped in" -- so I guess it won't even be noticeable when I'm done with it.

I'll take some "after" pictures tomorrow when it's light out.

NismoMax80

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now that's a ding! i have a slight crease horizontally in the middle. I considered heat and reaching in there to flatten it back. first warm day off i'm going at it. then hopefully i can polish out the minor scratches back there.

ThunderMaxi

Wow, I got a ding on the 05 when it still had the paper plates on it. Dentless repair cost the hag that did it. I was not happy. Yours looks a tad more than just a ding. Good luck.

viguera

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Trust me, it's not as bad as it looks... I'll take a picture in the morning and you'll be surprised at what it looks like now.

I remember thinking that the bumpers seemed a little hollow and flimsy when I was washing the car once... now I know that the shell is probably like that on purpose. All of the impact just got absorbed, and the plastic was pushed in, but the bumper is basically intact.

Bobo

If that was my car and I couldn't make it look 100% I would be so pissed off until it was 100% that I'd get it fixed right immediately!

MaxFan

I had an parking lot accident scraping the right-reat quarter. I didn't want to replace the bumper ($$$) and they couldn't fix/fill plastic bumper. They did a very good job they could for little $$$ I spent. But from some angles when the light is right, I can see some unevenness along where the bumper meets the body. I'm thinking of hiding it by put on a sticked-on side marker or bumper guard strip. Anyone knows any sources I can go get one of these.
Thanks.

joffy

hey max fan. what color is your max? i have some bronze bumper strips i never put on i could sell you.

MaxFan

Thanks joffy.
But my Max is Smoke. Did you plan to put it on but backed out ? I've been think hard how a strip would look on the Max -on the side, along where bumper meets body, about 20" in length. I found a strip glossy black like the door trims (on the web, so can't really do a visual).

stas

BTW courtesyparts.com sells Nissan touchup paint... in case anyone needs and didn't know...

04BlackMaxx

Wow that stinks...

wsu

I had something like this happen to me. I don't do body work myself. The final bill from the body shop was just under $450.00. Ouch!

Maxium

just get a ding king! http://www.dingking.tv/?source=gg&ca...rm=ding%20king

wsu

Thanks for the suggestion and link.

I make the following comments with full admission that I know next to nothing about body work: I'm not confident that the ding king would have been appropriate for my situation because as I understand it the ding king is for metal applications in which the metal can be flexed back in to its original shape. The situation I had was in the rear bumper (license plate bolt heads from another vehicle had pressed depressions into my bumper) and so it doesn't seem to me that these could have been "popped out". As I understand it, the holes had to be filled then finished over. If you know otherwise then maybe next time I will try ding king.

jcberb

Same issue with rear bumper, they impressions had to be filled in because they pierced the bumper. It would have cost me 200.00 if I were to have to had paid for it.

Maxium

Opps, I didn't originally catch the part where you indicated the bumper bolts had punchured the plastic bumper. Your are correct, the Ding King will not help you with this. However, should you get a ding in the door or a metal/plastic part the Ding King will work.

wsu

Thanks for the clarification. I hope I never have a situation where I would need to consider using ding king. So far, so good. I always park away from other cars if at all possible. More exercise for me and the car body stays cleaner.