Ding on back bumper- It's plastic!

Sorry to hear about the ding, but you'll be glad to know that's made of recycled plastic. At least there's that?

-m.

 

yep dings easily. got dinged, somebody didnt secure a shopping cart, hit right fender... DING! :cussing: was able to touch-up the paint, but the small 1 1/2" linear ding still there, dont thing a suction cup can help with that.

 

Someone posted an idea that I think merits consideration: park at the outer end of parking lots, so that you may end up walking further to the store, but your car is out of the mainstream and less likely to be hit by other cars and wayward shopping carts. I've gotten pretty good at finding parking at the airport where I work, on the end of the row so that I am parked on the passenger side of the car next to me with no one parked on my passenger side. Seems silly, probably, but without door guards, it makes sense.

 

If you're worried about door dings take a look at magnetic door guards. Place them when you leave and take 'em off when you get back into the car.

For example:
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/rodi/pasmmadogu.html

 

yep i park in isolated spots. it was a freak accident, just my bad luck getting hit by a runaway shopping cart. i was like.. NOO! WHY ME!?! talk about odds of it happening... still baffles me. oh well... cant protect it forever. :wink:

 

Geez Louise. I really do love my car, but what sort of crap-ola recycled plastic is this bumper made of? I've got scratches on the rear bumper up the ying-yang and my car is only 2 months old. It's the softest plastic ever. I'm afraid if I look at it too hard it's going to cause a scratch. I think it\'s developing a scratch right now as I think about it! :crazyeyes: At this rate my bumper is going to look like Swiss cheese (or a road map) by the end of the year!

Ok, ok, I know what you're thinking - but really, I am a very very good parallel parker - I get compliments on it from strangers!

Does anyone know just how well the 3M plastic protects the bumper from scratches that (without the film) cause a gouge deep enough to show the BLACK plastic through the WHITE paint?

 

The base plastic is Black? Ah, another reason I guess I'm glad my car is Black. Maybe the bumper scratches won't show as much.