Hi there

I hit a fox on the motorway last night, 70 ish mph, front bumper on by 09 Octavia VRS fairly thoroughly trashed & (possibly weirdly), the wash-wipe pipework, I assume to the offside headlamp, ruptured.

I think this is the OE part # for the bumper itself:
OE 1Z0807221 — SKODA / VAG

There's a couple of trim pieces gone walkabout as well, they're spread down lane 1 now ... but they look relatively inexpensive from what I can see online.
Bumper prices, though, seem to vary wildly according to manufacturer if not OE ...
I'm just trying to get an idea of parts and labour cost to rectify the mess that poor old Foxy left ...

I'm assuming that this bumper is not going to be repairable!

Thanks for any input ...

Edited 25 November, 20232 yr by gfkskoda
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Not a bodywork expert but I would have thought it is repairable , probably best to check with a body shop and if you can remove it yourself will save some money but they may want to do the whole job . If your game take a look @ YouTube and see if your brave enough 😉

Hi

Thanks for the note!

I've since had a deeper look & actually, I think I agree, now - I think it is repairable. Initially I had my doubts because of the length of the crack along the underside.

Having had the car up on a ramp so I can see properly, I think I can stitch the plastic work together & if I can figure out what plastic it is (I assume it's a thermoform of some sort), I can probably do some plastic welding on the inside ... I've had the bumper off once before to blow in a big scrape. It is a moderately major faff because it's a headlamp-modules-out-job and got all headlamp wash-wipe gubbins and fog lamp mounts attached - but it's not too scary.

I'm still tossing up whether it's worth just replacing it (in which case, I'll use up one of my three "NCB lives" and do it on the insurance, as the excess would more than balance out my time for doing the repair), or whether to do the repair as an exercise. I'm a service engineer dealing in high precision mechanical engineering product (though not on cars) so the practicality isn't too daunting, though I do hate not having *all the tools to hand* 😄 I'm also very concious that "cars ain't my thing" even if I do always preach that mechanical skills are transferrable!

I have to shout out (again) to the boys at Unit 18 in Newport Pagnell - they got my demolition of the wash-wipe system mostly sorted (one little glitch that I don't think was their fault anyway) and zip tied the debris neatly enough - while I waited - that I could blast down to Italy yesterday ... thanks Adam, Ali et.al. that is many beers I owe you!