Originally posted by h240vtec
Its not overkill. This is not a lite bumper tap, this happen when they were parallel parking. It caught the edge of the bumper near the quarter panel and even broke the mud flap. there are three half dollar spots of paint missing. Trust me if this was a slight bumper tap from normal parking I would not be removing the bumper. Beside the car is only three months old. I want my sh*t to look nice for a decent amount of time.
Just as a side suggestion, I had the left corner of my 99 EX V-6's rear bumper scraped by some incosiderate ASSHOLES as you call them (and you are totally right---these bastards have to die), and I called a paint guy who came down to where I live and wetsanded the spot for 200 bucks; dont know if you wanna go this route instead of doing the dealer way; dont know exactly how bad your damages are---mine were bad. They were white scrapes all over the corner of the bumper.
A kid in a Maxima during the winter here backed right into my ****in car with me and my girl standing there in a Blockbuster parking lot---all his friends in the car thought it was funny, but he left damage under the coating of road salt on my car at the time. I had the paint guy fix it all, though, and he has to come this weekend to give the area a final shine. Just my two cents. Wanted to beat the ever lovin shit outta this kid with the Max....