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Arrghhhhh...I hate my apartment complex's parking structure. They put the big ass support beams way too close to eachother forcing all the cars to park very close to eachother, and to add to that, all the beams are in your blind spot. So every morning I take off to go to work, reverse and head out the gate, so I do that today and I turn to get my car facing the direction of the gate and then all the sudden...SCRAAAACKKKK...I scratch my Mini agaisnt the support. No one to blame but myself really, and luckly it wasnt TOO bad. Got some pretty visable scrape marks along the right front plastic trim above the wheel well, and the front right of my bumper is scratched with yellow paint on it from the support. Its also a little crimpled from the pressure.
So how much would it cost to replace the bumper and trim? Maybe since im replacing it, I could look at some body kits...any good sites/prices?
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Sorry to hear about your scrapes! The plastic trim above the wheel arches are cheap--around $15 or less. Call Classic MINI of Ohio--one of NAM's vendors for the best prices.
You can probably remove the yellow paint with some claybar and buff the rest out--to atleast minimize the visible damage since the bumper cover is just painted plastic.
Richard
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Arrghhhhh...I hate my apartment complex's parking structure. They put the big ass support beams way too close to eachother forcing all the cars to park very close to eachother, and to add to that, all the beams are in your blind spot. So every morning I take off to go to work, reverse and head out the gate, so I do that today and I turn to get my car facing the direction of the gate and then all the sudden...SCRAAAACKKKK...I scratch my Mini agaisnt the support. No one to blame but myself really, and luckly it wasnt TOO bad. Got some pretty visable scrape marks along the right front plastic trim above the wheel well, and the front right of my bumper is scratched with yellow paint on it from the support. Its also a little crimpled from the pressure.
So how much would it cost to replace the bumper and trim? Maybe since im replacing it, I could look at some body kits...any good sites/prices?
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Sorry to hear about your incident. I also hate the way condos distribute parking spaces
Anyway, the black plastic wheel arches (Or spats as they are called in England) are fairly cheap. We are talking about $10-$25 tops for a brand new replacement from your MINI dealer. Just and tell them which pieces you need to replace.
As for the bumper paint scrape, there are some "mobile" companies that come to your home or work and perform excellent touch up repairs and bumper scrape restorations, without having to leave the car in a body shop and at the fraction of the cost. I'll look up some for you.
Awesome! Thanks, good to know that this prolly wont put too much of a dent into my budget.
Edit to original: added pictures.
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Brake dust is the least of my worries right now :|
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Reminds me of my work's old building... we had support beams and LITERALLY every car that frequently parked under the deck had a scratch on their cars from the beams. It's so far out in the parking space, and the spaces are so close together, it's almost impossible to NOT hit them.... even when you think you know your demensions to a tee. Luckily, i only owned my mini 3 days before we moved out of that building, so i just parked it on the other end of the lot. My thunderbird i hit it pretty good on a beam... my miata was so small i didn't have any problems... but the mini was so new to me, i didn't want to take any chances.
Sorry yours gotta boo boo :( it shouldnt be too hard to fix it up and make it good as new Those trim pieces are sooo cheap.
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sorry to hear of your misfortune, I can definitely sympathize. On the way into work this morning a stupid big rock flew out of nowhere and hit the top corner of my roof and put two nice dings in it. I was soooo steamed.
At least you can replace your wheel arches. good luck.
Reminds me of my work's old building... we had support beams and LITERALLY every car that frequently parked under the deck had a scratch on their cars from the beams. It's so far out in the parking space, and the spaces are so close together, it's almost impossible to NOT hit them.... even when you think you know your demensions to a tee. Luckily, i only owned my mini 3 days before we moved out of that building, so i just parked it on the other end of the lot. My thunderbird i hit it pretty good on a beam... my miata was so small i didn't have any problems... but the mini was so new to me, i didn't want to take any chances.
Sorry yours gotta boo boo :( it shouldnt be too hard to fix it up and make it good as new Those trim pieces are sooo cheap.
Yeah its the same thing with my parking structure. Everytime I look at the support, you can see where people have scraped them.
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sorry to hear of your misfortune, I can definitely sympathize. On the way into work this morning a stupid big rock flew out of nowhere and hit the top corner of my roof and put two nice dings in it. I was soooo steamed.
At least you can replace your wheel arches. good luck.
Heh I hate that. I got a candy bar smack into my windshield on the freeway once, I guess some little kid threw it out. It hit it hard and loud, scared the crap out of me, luckly there wasnt a mark...although with all the rock chips on my windshield and bonnet/roof, I prolly wouldn't notice it anyway.
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You can pick up the whole front bumper easily by watching ebay of the marketplace forum. People get the aero kit and frequently sell the bumpers for a very reasonable price
The front bumper cover is around $280.00 and you need to get it painted, the wheel arches are cheap. You might as well take the opportunity and buy the aero kit, at least the front bumper and the grill
I got a candy bar smack into my windshield on the freeway once, I guess some little kid threw it out. It hit it hard and loud, scared the crap out of me, luckly there wasnt a mark...
Even if there was a mark, I bet some peanut butter would have taken it right off.
Good luck with keeping those repairs cheap! Sounds like you've got some great leads already.
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I feel your pain. I keep scuffing my rims on our curbs of our company parking lot.
The sad part is...We (civil engineering firm) designed the parking lot with 8' wide spots (minimum) to meet zoning regulations. Then the concrete guys did a sloppy job with the curb so it basically juts out at your rims.
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Thanks for the info, i'll see if I can claybar out the paint and then buff it out first.
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Until you fix it, you could just make up a story that you were at a track event and this (insert type of cool car here) was slowing you up in the turns, so you had to nudge him out of the way
Awesome! I'll give em a call later, how do these guys usually run?
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Those trim pieces are sooo cheap.
I was worried when I clicked to this thread. I though you were Scrapping your MINI
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