So the story goes:

The roads were a little slick in Humboldt county and I had a car full of people and a trunk full of fire wood and beverages. On a funny off/onramp a taxi cab cuts across my lane and I swirve to avoid him. Between my lack of suspension mods, wet conditions and maybe 800 extra pounds the back end came loose. I tried to correct but ended up over compensating. The process was repeated two times before I scraped a nice concrete barrier.

Lucky for me it was a scrape, not a full on collision. Everyone is okay and my WRX still runs. I wasn't able to get plates or a cab ID thing and I'm now left with a dilemma. This will be the 3rd time I've had something unfortunate happen to my car where no one is responsible. This is the first time someone was actually in the vehicle. My insurance is already relatively high.

The only body damage appears to have occurred to the front passenger fender, which is pretty mangled, and the front lip/bumper thing. Even the head lights still function properly.

Would the best course of action be to take it to a body shop and have an assessment done or is trying to find replacement parts via classifieds or some other vendor a possibility?

 

Do both, while asking the body shop for costs, ask them how much just to put one on if you found a bumper in the next month or two in the classifieds. Try checking junkyards for any leftovers for parts.

Take your time, looks like your car can still run, just looks ghetto a bit.

 

+1 for that

 

 

damn. that sucks *** Taylor. hope you get that fixed soon! good luck to you!

 

damn that sucks dude. i hate cab drivers, they drive like ****. hope u get everything fixed easily

 

fender and bumper came out to be 1600 for me. goodluck

 

- There were a lot of silver bugeyes so shouldn't be that hard to find a used replacement for cheap. Of course you'll have to cut the front bumper though for the fmic.

- Unless you're claiming insurance, except for cutting to fit the fmic I wouldn't take it to the body shop since it's so easy to remove/install both the fender and bumper. You should just buy the bumper for $150 and the fender for (i dunno how much) off of subarugenuineparts.com or some other online wholeseller of OEM collision parts. Then get it painted. I'm guessing will probably be around $400-$500 to paint both

 

definitely not 400-500 to paint both. cost me 400 to paint just my bumper.

ive been through 5 bumpers, believe me.

 

Yea, I think painting will be near 1k for both. If not over.

 

that sucks to hear about the incident
hopefully you can find some replacement parts for cheap

 

I really think the best bet is to take a look at some junkyards and hope to come away with painted parts... the only thing that sucks is that most subaru wrecks destroy the front end ><

 

that same incident sounds all too familiar..

but the good thing was that no one was hurt and you're still here. taxi drivers are douchebags on the road.. sometimes i wonder if only... someone could.. just.. but yeahh i would recommend apex auto body if you do decide to take care of it by yourself.

i wish you luck in whatever you may decide to do.

 

If I had to fix it, I would get 04-05 front end

 

I got charged 400 by a professional as well. Though a friend of mine who does auto body painting would have done it for a little more than the material cost (around 250) if he were still local, so I should have put that "hookup disclaimer" for the OP. Body shops will usually do a second part for much less than doing both individually.


lol no way dude... maybe if I decide to get ripped off one day