tradosauru

Since my front bumper needs repainted I'm thinking about buying a new bumper for $350 and taking the bumper to a paint shop to get painted.
LS430 Bumper
The alternative would be to bring the entire car to a paint shop just to have the bumper sanded, primed and painted.

What do you think?

warminwisc

Get a good body shop its all about cost

jimbosr1

My thinking is,if your bumper is not damaged then i would have the body shop paint it.Use the money you were going to buy a bumper with and be done with it.
If you buy a new bumper you still have to paint it and pay for installation and you will pay alot more money and end up with the same result.

TriC

Unless your old bumper is damaged beyond repair, there isn't any good reason to replace it.

Bocatrip

Johnhav430

Do they remove when repainting the old one? If so, maybe an opportunity to replace park sensors (with eBay ones?)? Or if it ain't broke, don't fix it, not sure...

On our cars I'd likely go repaint if not cut/damaged...

Bocatrip

The bumper must be removed for a proper paint job. The paint must be baked after application. If the estimate is too low, always make sure they are removing the bumper. The rear bumper is more difficult than the front.

Mbodall

If you end up buying a new one, you can save $18 and buy it from parts.com and still have a genuine OEM Toyota replacement.

w/o distance sensor, w/o park sensor, w/o lamp wash

w/distance sensor, w/o park sensor, w/o lamp wash

w/o distance sensor, w/o park sensor, w/lamp wash

w/o distance sensor, w/park sensor, w/lamp wash

w/distance, w/park sensor, w/lamp wash

Scootymad

If there's heaps of paint on the bumper it'll be cheaper and easier to simply buy a new one. There gets a point on a bumper where there's just too much paint on there and movement will cause stress fractures in the paint, at which point it has to be sanded back to plastic. If its only got OEM paint (very unlikely) or its only been painted once before, then just repaint the original bumper.