Quote Originally Posted by E46Padge
Post up a picture. I paint my self. Depends on time and labour that goes into the bumper before paint. Also if it's peppered with stone chips it could or not been painted before poorly with cheap paint kits ect. So that layer would have to come off to prevent a majority of chips in the future.

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Personally I'd stay away from the rep bumpers some are good and others are crap. Also iam not sure you can get coupe rep bumpers? Only saloon and m3?

To give you a idea of price
To paint a new/second hand one with no repairs. You removing and fitting it ect 150
few minor repairs. Gash hear and scuff there. You remove and fit ect 200
Bad damage eg a days labour in repair. 250-300
Thanks for that. Those prices are well within what I budgeted for this repair/replacement.

It's not just stone chips on my current bumper, there's large sections of paint completely scraped off so it looks absolutely terrible. The mesh in the centre is all cracked and destroyed and also the housing for one of the fogs (aswell as the actual fog light being missing).

If I could get it painted for 150 like you say, I'm half tempted to buy that new bumper I linked to above. The fogs, housing and mesh alone could cost me another 80-100 so 200 doesn't seem like a bad deal for the whole thing. I'd post pics but I work in Kilkenny and my car is in Cork until I can get it NCT'd. The wait is killing me.