Came out looking great Monte. In truth you're better off just paying the shop to do this out of your pocket as opposed to going the insurance route primarily because if you file a claim on it the whole thing goes on Carfax and if you ever trade the car some future dealership will use that as an excuse to lower your trade in value.

 

Not true. Almost every car that isn't a garage queen or total POS has been to a body shop at some point. As long as there wasn't a major collision that bent the frame or deployed the airbag, evidence of body shop visits are not going to lower the value of a car. If it did, I'd go right to another dealer.

 

I have two more years worth of payments. by that time, there could be more damage on the body. I'm going to just wait. Once its paid for and when I can afford to keep it as a weekend car to enjoy, then I'll just get it all repaired. I'm not even sure if they could fix that without doing body work to it.

Believe me, I wish that I had looked at my car that night. I just noticed it was a black Merc AMG suv and immediately thought. "I'm good, There's no way they would be so careless"

any sort of damage to the body, really sucks

 

Was it a soccer mom driving the SUV?

 

Thank you. I'm happy with the repair, especially for $50. Turning it in to the insurance really wasn't an option since I have a $500 deductable and even if I would have had to have the bumper painted, it would have been about $500 anyway.

Wayne