I was driving in a really crowded parking lot and I accidentally ran over a small rouge traffic cone in my path. I didn't even see it.

I continued to drive because I thought that it would just pass through since it's just a piece of crushable plastic. It was probably a stupid idea to keep driving but surely my Scion could handle it.

Nope.

After it passed I looked in the rear view mirrior and saw a chunk of my bumper had fallen off. Then I looked at my front bumper and it had snapped from the screw it was connected to.

Is this normal? I really can't believe a plastic cone did so much damage to my car. I just have the base model and it really tore up the front and back bumpers.

Anyway, anyone know of a good place to get a solid full body kit that will fit my XB well? I see stuff on ebay all the time but I'm afraid it's super cheap. I'd like a reliable place to get it from.

Anyone in the Southern California area know of a good body shop to get it painted and installed?

How much would this all cost me?

Please help a poor stupid man.

 

Dude I can't believe you already have body damage to the box. That blows. I've heard the bumpers are flimsy, but geez.

 

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o_0 ...guh? Are you sure that, like, the cone wasn't blocking a 14-inch-deep pothole, which you ALSO drove over?

Hm. Nevermind, I'm guessing California is a little short on 14-inch-deep potholes.

xB bumpers are light-duty, but they aren't THAT flimsy. I have a stock '05, and a few months after I got the car I was doing 70 or so on 80-94 through a construction site, and the truck in front of me ran over something. I never even saw what it was - only that it was about the size of a Sunday edition of a newspaper - but it slammed into my headlight assembly hard enough that my seatbelt locked up.

I lost the little plastic inserts that go under the foglights (make SURE those are still connected if your bumper has flexed at all; they pop out very easily and you only have a couple days to pop them back in before they're gone forever), and there's a big crack in the middle of the bumper, but nothing like you're describing.

I also slid backwards into a snowback (read: giant block of ice) a few weeks ago and cracked the rear bumper, but again, nothing really fell OFF. And I was going at a pretty good clip - parking lot speeds at the very least.


Are you SURE there wasn't something else? The cone had to be there for a reason...maybe the reason it was there is what actually did the damage to your car.

Good luck with your car, man...whatever did that, it sure sucks.

 

Any update on this? What'd your body shop say?

 

Happend to me before on the freeway. A cone ate up my car

 

I cracked the bumper and lost a bunch of paint when I killed a cone on a road course in my subaru

 

on my old xb i was driving through a rain storm and hit a huge surge of water , the puddle ripped the rear bumper skirt clean off but didnt crack anything. I stopped jumped out into the puddle and fished out the bumper halves. (Two seperate pieces as you know) I went back to Toyota and they happily just fixed it for me in seconds and good as new.