Wife hit a pole....

Went outside this morning to check the mail and saw this.
Asked my wife what she hit.... she said "Oh, I bumped a light pole in the lot at work... is it bad?"
Is it bad? There is concrete dust on the damn thing.

Count to ten, it will be a good weekend, it WILL be a good weekend

99% OF THAT WILL RUB OUT

"Oh I bumped....is it bad"?

Save that statement for another time, when it is perfect to use it. Pick your battles.

If my wife hits a pole, it better be mine, and she better rub it out herself ...

I remember when my mom drove through the garage door when I was a kid. Then she hit the mailbox a couple times trying to get mail from car.

My father however, bought a BRAND new truck. We got stuck, went to give him a push and he gunned it... My mom and I almost face planted in the snow as he drifted his truck up on the the curb and side swiped my grandma's mailbox. It was pretty epic, and make a massive scratch all the way down the bed, until it hit the rear marker and ripped it apart. Definitely not buffing that out!

Yeah, pretty minor what your wife did. Most of that looks like it could buff out. You can repaint it as well. It appears to the plastic cover that snaps to top of bumper and touch of the lower bumper. It comes off really easily. Take it apart and you can paint it up yourself with single stage if you're feeling brave. Otherwise, a reasonable shop w/ mixing station can mix / color match w/o having to buy a whole pint of paint. Problem is the bleep'n paint got SUPER expensive. If you buy the minimum to just paint the bumper you're looking at several hundred dollars. However, a shop can mix up JUST enough and should cut you a good deal especially if you sand and prep the part yourself. Should you go that route, just get brown scratch pads from the auto paint store and really scratch it up. Then clean it with alcohol and take it to paint shop.

I told her if she she wants it painted to match she can pay for it.
Otherwise it stays how it is until I can find a Craigslist/Marketplace steel bumper.
This isn't the first time she has done this. Six months ago she backed into a pole and smashed the rear bumper. And a year before that, she crunched the factory step bars because she was tired of waiting in the drive-thru at Starbucks...and drove off a foot and a half curb.

Mudsport96 said:

I told her if she she wants it painted to match she can pay for it.
Otherwise it stays how it is until I can find a Craigslist/Marketplace steel bumper.
This isn't the first time she has done this. Six months ago she backed into a pole and smashed the rear bumper. And a year before that, she crunched the factory step bars because she was tired of waiting in the drive-thru at Starbucks...and drove off a foot and a half curb.

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I would watch out and not piss her off when you are standing and she is in the vehicle.

I mean....front bumper corner, rear bumper and step bars......man, that is serious....

Isn't that the Bermuda Blue?

Tonyrodz said:

Isn't that the Bermuda Blue?

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I think it is that color. A A/L widow friend of mine has a 2005 Tahoe LS with that color. Like that blue and my girl has a 2002 TrailBlazer with Indigo Blue and that is dark. Like that too.

Mudsport96 said:

I told her if she she wants it painted to match she can pay for it.
Otherwise it stays how it is until I can find a Craigslist/Marketplace steel bumper.
This isn't the first time she has done this. Six months ago she backed into a pole and smashed the rear bumper. And a year before that, she crunched the factory step bars because she was tired of waiting in the drive-thru at Starbucks...and drove off a foot and a half curb.

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doesn't need paint, I'm telling you a little elbow grease and most of that will vanish, rubbing compound and buffer will do the trick, all that white stuff is from whatever she hit, underneath it the paint is fine