Aygo Front Bumper

[rencar12]

Having had a bit of a mishap with a concrete bollard and our Ice Blue Aygo Sport Plus, the front corner of the bumper has a large dent in it.

There is no damage to the glass or metalwork surrounding it, so I guessed a replacement front bumper and painting. Mr Toyota has quoted £774.12 which seems incredibly expensive to me. I am awaiting their detailed quote, but does anyone know if this sounds reasonable?

Does the Aygo front bumper come unpainted from new and if so is it just sprayed the correct colour and fixed onto the car (ie. do other surrounding panels have to be blended in as its metallic)?

The other thing I'm wondering about is having the dent pulled out of the plastic bumpers and getting it repaired by a bumper repairer (althought I'm not sure this is feasible).

If anyone can help me on this I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

[smoftah]

That seems crazy expensive!

I have just had my Corolla's front bumper sprayed from new for £100, they did not need to spray any other panels to colour match it.

Was the damage cosmetic or was anything behind the bumper damaged?

I would leave Mr T on this one and go to a good local body shop, even just for a quote.

Good luck in the repair.

[Unklian]

What about this ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOYOTA-AYGO-FRONT-BU...p3286.m14.l1318

[rencar12]

Thanks - I did spot this and sent the seller a question about the colour (which I'm awaiting a reply).

I have just realised though that my bumper has the front fog lights, and all of the ones on eBay are non-fog light versions!

[Jan van de Wouw]

You can quite easily re-fit the foglights into your new bumper.

There might even be an AIM with cutting templates available!

[SJandMR2]

Yep that was about the same price I was quoted to replace my front bumber this included eberything including respray, also the reason why a year on my bumper has yet to be replaced, as its hardly noticeable.

SJx

[weevicky]

The prices that MR T Quote are incredible; your easier getting the new bumper from a scrappy and getting it coloured to your specification; and even if u need the fogs you can buy and gett them fitted for less all together than it will for that lump sum.

Aranold Clark reprayed my mums focus (front left wing and bonnet) after I was in an accident and the spraying is dodgy. Go to a wee garage you'll get it done for at least 10% of that.

[BadBoyVTEC]

I have repaired similar damage to mine in the past using a windscreen suction cup and pulling it out and replacing just the corner parts.

[peugeot107?]

Having had a bit of a mishap with a concrete bollard and our Ice Blue Aygo Sport Plus, the front corner of the bumper has a large dent in it.

There is no damage to the glass or metalwork surrounding it, so I guessed a replacement front bumper and painting. Mr Toyota has quoted £774.12 which seems incredibly expensive to me. I am awaiting their detailed quote, but does anyone know if this sounds reasonable?

Does the Aygo front bumper come unpainted from new and if so is it just sprayed the correct colour and fixed onto the car (ie. do other surrounding panels have to be blended in as its metallic)?

The other thing I'm wondering about is having the dent pulled out of the plastic bumpers and getting it repaired by a bumper repairer (althought I'm not sure this is feasible).

If anyone can help me on this I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

Can you get behind it and push it out from behind without splitting it?

I'd at least get other quotes, at least it's not likely to rust after you have the thing resprayed/sprayed, good luck.

[rencar12]

I now have the full written quotation and quite amazingly they seem to be stripping and replacing most of the front of the car!

Parts include: Manufacturer Badge, bumper grille, radiator grill seal, left front bumper moulding, front bumper, left front bumper support, car care kit (whatever that is) and sundry parts @ 3.5%

Repair includes: Adjust headlamps, cutting holes in bumper for front fog lamps (would have thought this would come pre-done because my car came from the factory with front fogs).

Painting - fair enough has to be prepared and sprayed.

Refitting: Front bumper, right and left bumper brackets, left and right headlamps, left and right front wheelhouse Shell, both wheels and front bumper damper.

It appears that instead of moving perfecty good parts from the old bumper, they have to replace all these items with new. This all results in the biggest item being labour. Why the wheels and headlamps have to come out is anyones guess. They did add when they came to inspect that there didn't appear to be any damage behind the bumper either!

As you've advised I will get some other smaller bodyshop quotes and find out from a bumper repairers if this can be pushed out. I've seen the article on here explaining how to remove the front bumper and it looks pretty simple (none of this stripping down). Toyota list a new front bumper as £110+VAT. eBay has front bumpers, although none in my colour and I can't seem to work out what happens with the front fog lights - surely these holes are pre cut?

At the rate of the first quote, my car would be written off if it had damaged any metalwork?

[BadBoyVTEC]

The lights are usually fitted after explaing why the holes aren't pre-cut. However it would be much easier to just try and repair it best as possible and then live with the scratches or re-spray the original.

[rencar12]

We approached a small local garage who have initially started to sort the problem with the front bumper.

They have heated up the problem area today and put the bumper back into shape. I've attached the photos of what they've achieved which is pretty good going so far.

Just shows you what can really be achieved without replacing most of the front of the car!

I am awaiting a written quotation for sorting out the scuffing and maybe a new corner piece, which they have verbally said would be around £200 all in.

[BadBoyVTEC]

Hate to say it but I told ya so ;) I got a cash quote for a re-spray of my front bumper at 170 quid (never did it). So it sounds about right.

[aygo_uk]

I had some simular scratches on my bumper on my Aygo and toyota did it for £140 as a smart repair job.

James

[BadBoyVTEC]

Whats a smart repair?

[aygo_uk]

Don't know what it really is except from what they did to my Aygo

I had about 10 deep scratches into my bumper on the side and corner peice caused by a shopping trolley and they resprayed on that peice calling it a smart repair - i assume it means they only respray the area which needs doing.

This was done at my Toyota garage with a bodyshop service.

You can't see the repair at all.

James

[Guest]

Some usless bint scuffed my Platty when it was 7weeks old while it was parked on a petrol station forecort when i was in paying. She scuffed the little panel that comes off and a tiny little bit just under it but on the main bumper. Went through the insurance as it was so new and didnt want to live with it not being utterly perfect, the repair centre ended up having to remove the whole front bumper and spray the whole thing, never saw the bill but it took em 2 weeks.

I was under the impression that the Aygo/C1/107 were designed to be easy and thus cheap to repair , Close to £800 for a bit damage to an eaisly removeable plastic body panel sounds utterly bonkers.

[moonstone mart]

I now have the full written quotation and quite amazingly they seem to be stripping and replacing most of the front of the car!

Parts include: Manufacturer badge, bumper grille, radiator grill seal, left front bumper moulding, front bumper, left front bumper support, car care kit (whatever that is) and sundry parts @ 3.5%

Repair includes: Adjust headlamps, cutting holes in bumper for front fog lamps (would have thought this would come pre-done because my car came from the factory with front fogs).

Painting - fair enough has to be prepared and sprayed.

Refitting: Front bumper, right and left bumper brackets, left and right headlamps, left and right front wheelhouse shell, both wheels and front bumper damper.

It appears that instead of moving perfecty good parts from the old bumper, they have to replace all these items with new. This all results in the biggest item being labour. Why the wheels and headlamps have to come out is anyones guess. They did add when they came to inspect that there didn't appear to be any damage behind the bumper either!

As you've advised I will get some other smaller bodyshop quotes and find out from a bumper repairers if this can be pushed out. I've seen the article on here explaining how to remove the front bumper and it looks pretty simple (none of this stripping down). Toyota list a new front bumper as £110+VAT. Ebay has front bumpers, although none in my colour and I can't seem to work out what happens with the front fog lights - surely these holes are pre cut?

At the rate of the first quote, my car would be written off if it had damaged any metalwork?

The Aygo bumpers are the sme on every model therefore they dont come pre cut. We have to cut the foglamp holes ourselves if fitting acesory parts/refitting due to bodywork.

Mart.

[rencar12]

I didn't receive the promised quotation for the paintwork repair, so decided today to grab my trusty bottle of Autoglym Super Resin Polish and Mr T's ice blue touch up paint.

I think you'll agree that the clean up and paint touch up has gone pretty well - apart from a minor scuff mark, the difference from the photos just after the prang and now is good.

As suggested here, its always worth spending time approaching smaller garages for repair (rather than rebuilding your car) and also devoting some work yourself to cleaning up any damage. Still await a bill for heating up and pulling the bumper back into shape (expected small cost) and some elbow grease (£0). Better than spending just under £800 anyway!

Thanks

[adilmon]

I didn't receive the promised quotation for the paintwork repair, so decided today to grab my trusty bottle of Autoglym Super Resin Polish and Mr T's ice blue touch up paint.

I think you'll agree that the clean up and paint touch up has gone pretty well - apart from a minor scuff mark, the difference from the photos just after the prang and now is good.

As suggested here, its always worth spending time approaching smaller garages for repair (rather than rebuilding your car) and also devoting some work yourself to cleaning up any damage. Still await a bill for heating up and pulling the bumper back into shape (expected small cost) and some elbow grease (£0). Better than spending just under £800 anyway!

Thanks

You are a legend. Really nice job.

[BadBoyVTEC]

Yeah good job. :)