Bumper scraped

After bringing my first car home, we gave it a once over (hubby and I). It was only two years old so the chances of anything going wrong was very slim. The next day we decided to return some books to the library and instead of walking, we decided to take our new car. Hubby drove and parked near a concrete flower box. I returned and he reversed the car to leave the bay – I didn’t get a chance to tell him to watch out when yes you guessed he scraped the side of our brand new car against the concrete flower box. I was so angry I was fuming; I couldn’t believe he could be so silly! I stepped out the car to assess the damage. Luckily only the side of the bumper has been scraped and the paintwork on the doors was fine. I insisted we should take it to the garage to be fixed but he said he’ll sort it.

Fixing the paintwork on the bumper after the silly mistake
I suggested that we go to a garage to get a quote but my husband was adamant that he could fix it. I looked on the internet for Nissan spare parts; replacing the bumper itself was £78 but then it would have to be spray painted to match the colour of the car. We then decided to just patch up the spot that was scraped so we went on the internet searching for paint suitable for the car; we went to Halfords but couldn’t find an exact match. While I was there I saw that they do minor work on cars so enquired on how much it would cost to fix the scraped bumper. We were quoted £80 for the scrape along the bumper so my husband refused because it was just rediculous. I went online and contacted Nissan directly asking for a little can of spray paint the same colour as our car. Through Nissan it was actually cheaper costing only £7.

Preparing to fix bumper with spray paint
Before we could actually paint the bonnet of the car, the area had to be sanded down so it was smooth. Then a primer had to be added before we could spray paint it. All this only came to about £15 including the specialist sandpaper needed to sand down the bumper. When finished, you couldn’t really tell where the bumper had been scraped but it was dull rather than shiny. A year later I was involved in an accident so it had to be replaced anyway so all that for nothing.