Kizashi Club

Long story short, my baby had an affair with guard rails and this is what happened = =
Well, guess at least now I can get a sport bumper that I have always wanted.
Btw, does anyone know if the bumper from the sport version will fit on my Kizashi??

I had very, very, very similar damage, only difference was my for light surround wasnt damaged at all. Mine was done by another car in a carpark. You should look into modern touch up companies, not body shops. Body shop quoted me $1,100 (aud) for mine and I used a touch up company that came to my house, had it done within 3 hours and it looks perfect. Final cost: $200. Colours match perfectly, all surfaces perfectly smooth. Yours will obviously be more with the fog light and insert but im sure it would be far less than a new bumper + labour etc. Unless your determined to get the sports front which yes, should fit:P.

Anyway some food for thought there.

Owch. At least it looks like your headlight got away without any damage.

If you have full coverage you might as well just get it replaced. Unless you don't want to make a claim then go the route listed above.

Wonson92 wrote:I had very, very, very similar damage, only difference was my for light surround wasnt damaged at all. Mine was done by another car in a carpark. You should look into modern touch up companies, not body shops. Body shop quoted me $1,100 (aud) for mine and I used a touch up company that came to my house, had it done within 3 hours and it looks perfect. Final cost: $200. Colours match perfectly, all surfaces perfectly smooth. Yours will obviously be more with the fog light and insert but im sure it would be far less than a new bumper + labour etc. Unless your determined to get the sports front which yes, should fit:P.

Anyway some food for thought there.

Touch up company?? If the bumper is cracked then I dont think touch up company will be able to fix that right?? Especially the lower part of the bumper, it's all cracked and broken into pieces. I brought the car into shops and got several quotes.....ranging from $4000 to $5800 CAD.

Moto wrote:Owch. At least it looks like your headlight got away without any damage.

If you have full coverage you might as well just get it replaced. Unless you don't want to make a claim then go the route listed above.

In a way yes, but there's still a small crack on the headlight cover. Haven't really decided to go with insurance or out of pocket. If I am paying out of pocket, then I will just leave it be lol.

make sure to epoxy up the light if nothing else. I'm going to bet there aren't a lot of white kizashis in Canada, but it you might be able to find a front bumper. Unfortunately most real crashes don't leave the front bumper intact.

If you had the right person do it you could save that bumper and it wouldn't look too funny.

Lol, I checked pretty much every junk yard or salvage in the province but to no avail.
Btw, what do you mean by epoxy up the light??

If it is cracked it may let moisture into the light which will cause the light to burn out and make your lenses foggy.

Epoxy the crack so that moisture can not get into the light. It should also stop the crack from spreading. There are probably kits to do it with a little vacuum so that it will suck the epoxy into the crack.

The refractive index of most epoxies should be similar to the lens so it shouldn't be super obvious that you fixed it.

If try this make sure you get the epoxy that is made for plastic. It is a bandaid fix, but probably better than letting water get into your headlight housing.

Other thoughts...
I would probably do a little test run on something I don't care about to make sure the epoxy dries clear. 5 min epoxy tends to dry yellow and is probably thicker than what you want to use.

The stuff that uses UV light to set might be better in this case so you have some time to work with it.

My crack was minor but you can't tell there was one there at all. Guy who did mine used some form of epoxy resin to seal then sanded it back and then something else over the top not sure what though. He referred to it as plastic welding. I'm in Australia but check out the site and you'll get a better idea, I'm sure there would be similar in Canada theres heaps of companies similar in sydney.

http://www.touchupguys.com.au

Their example photos are pretty basic. Also says they don't work on metal but they do.

The epoxy used on mine dried brown which Oscar the only colour I've ever seen epoxy:P stuff over the top of it was greyish, maybe helped hide it?

Northernstar wrote:Long story short, so is my mouth.

LOL

ouch...and I'm pissed about a deep door ding on the lip of my driver's side rear wheel well...