Cracked Front Lower Valance

[jdonnee]

I have a 96 SL500 and as you might expect, when I first got the car I did not realize how low the front valance under the bumper was so when I was pulling in to a parking spot, I cracked the fiberglass under the right driving light in two places.

Question:

Has anyone done this and taken it to a fiberglass repair shop and had it repaired and repainted? I beleive that cost for the entire new valance is around $1,000.00 dollars without labor or paint.

Any recommendations?

Thanks

[deanyel]

Can you post a picture? Go to an auto paint store and they should sell a tube of something made precisely for such repairs, unless you've more or less demolished it.

[jdonnee]

I'll post a picture this weekend. No, it's just two cracks. I'll go to NAPA, they usually have more of what you are talking about then the Auto Parts.

[deanyel]

Not auto parts, auto paint, but NAPA might work as they sometimes have an auto paint department, although limited compared to the bigger stores.

[tecqboy]

I've had mine repaired. There are a number of "mobile" bumper repair outfits in the yellow pages. They come to your car ( your house ), remove the damaged parts, take them to their shop for repair, then return and re-install.
Mine cost $350 and it had quite a nasty hole and scrape. They did an excellent job. Paint matched perfect. P.S. I live in a large US city.

[jdonnee]

Thanks for the replys. I will try the yellow pages.