Originally Posted by
Mr. Underbridge
OT, but you'd be surprised how badly the plastic crap around bumpers is designed these days. Somebody did a study on a handful of cars and found that a 5 mph crash frequently caused a few thousand in damage.
I'm sure it's not cheap - that is, if you're enough of a dimbulb to bother fixing it. I miss kevlar bumpers. In Boston, "parking by braille" is just a reality, and if you get upset that your bumpers are scraped up, you're in for a headache and a heartache. Better to do the zen thing and cultivate detachment.