I bought my daughter a 2023 toyota corolla LE 2.0 and she was super excited with her first new car.
With less then 5k miles on the car an old man decided to back up his dodge ram truck at a red light where my daughter was behind him and the old man damaged the bumper bit mainly the grill.he said he didn't see her.
My Daughter being that it was her first accident she didn't call the police and exchanges telephone numbers and name with the old guy.
To make a long story short. The old guy wrote me a check because he didn't want to get the police involved because he was from Canada and we live in Florida.
I took the car for a quote and I was quoted $4,500.
But they couldn't get it fix until 3 months later because they were very busy.
So I decided to take a look under the hood and behind the bumper to see how bad the damage was.
As I looked for damage the obvious was the front grill was cracked and need a new one.
Behind the bumper I could see that a bumper support bracket that's in the middle of the bumper and holds the bumper in place with a clip was bent out of shape.
I straighten that support as best has I could. But yet the bumper seems to be off by an 1/8th of an inch or so.
The hood closes, but it is just creating a lip with the bumper cover and the hood. Before the damage it was a smooth transition from upper bumper cover to the edge of the hood.
I came to the conclusiĂłn that the upper radiator support is probably slightly pushed back and that's why the upper bumper cover and hood are creating a lip where there wasn't one before.
Tomorrow I will tie a rope to the part of the upper radiator support and try to pull that 1/8th of an inch forward so the hood and bumper are smooth again.
But my question is.
Where besides The Toyota Dealer could I find the front bumper grill.
The one in my Daughters car has the horizontal lines going across the front grill.
The ones I find online are the honeycomb front grill. Wich in my opinion look better then the one the car has now.
The honeycomb grill is on Ebay and when I click on the model of my Daughters car it says that it doesn't fit.
But outer shape of the grill looks like the same shape as the OEM one in my Daughters car.the only difference is that the OEM in my Daughters car has the horizontal lines across the grill and the on Ebay has honeycomb grill.
If anyone could help me with this I will be very appreciated.
Thanks for your help and sorry for the long post.
With less then 5k miles on the car an old man decided to back up his dodge ram truck at a red light where my daughter was behind him and the old man damaged the bumper bit mainly the grill.he said he didn't see her.
My Daughter being that it was her first accident she didn't call the police and exchanges telephone numbers and name with the old guy.
To make a long story short. The old guy wrote me a check because he didn't want to get the police involved because he was from Canada and we live in Florida.
I took the car for a quote and I was quoted $4,500.
But they couldn't get it fix until 3 months later because they were very busy.
So I decided to take a look under the hood and behind the bumper to see how bad the damage was.
As I looked for damage the obvious was the front grill was cracked and need a new one.
Behind the bumper I could see that a bumper support bracket that's in the middle of the bumper and holds the bumper in place with a clip was bent out of shape.
I straighten that support as best has I could. But yet the bumper seems to be off by an 1/8th of an inch or so.
The hood closes, but it is just creating a lip with the bumper cover and the hood. Before the damage it was a smooth transition from upper bumper cover to the edge of the hood.
I came to the conclusiĂłn that the upper radiator support is probably slightly pushed back and that's why the upper bumper cover and hood are creating a lip where there wasn't one before.
Tomorrow I will tie a rope to the part of the upper radiator support and try to pull that 1/8th of an inch forward so the hood and bumper are smooth again.
But my question is.
Where besides The Toyota Dealer could I find the front bumper grill.
The one in my Daughters car has the horizontal lines going across the front grill.
The ones I find online are the honeycomb front grill. Wich in my opinion look better then the one the car has now.
The honeycomb grill is on Ebay and when I click on the model of my Daughters car it says that it doesn't fit.
But outer shape of the grill looks like the same shape as the OEM one in my Daughters car.the only difference is that the OEM in my Daughters car has the horizontal lines across the grill and the on Ebay has honeycomb grill.
If anyone could help me with this I will be very appreciated.
Thanks for your help and sorry for the long post.
