My girlfriend had an encounter with a concrete lightpole base last night, with her '03 Civic. She misjudged the remaining distance and stopped too late. I guess her attention was more for the mass of people watching the fireworks contest from our workplace's parking lot...
The plastic cover is not cracked, but scratched in a very bad way. The car is black and now the white-ish plastic base is showing through. It looks like when you grate cheese, some is missing at one end, and there is an accumulation of plastic at the other end of the scratch.
Now my question: what are her options now? Is there a way to repair this at home, should she get the car to a body shop, or should we be shopping for a new bumper? She has no plans of making a rice-mobile out of her Civic, it's a stock LX and it's supposed to stay that way.
I should be able to get pictures of the damaged area tomorrow morning...
