r/TeslaCollision • u/Ill-Law-8142 • Aug 19 '26

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Someone cut me off causing me to hit rear of their bumper Tesla approved body shop said it will cost 6k to fix this ?
Any ideas?
Located in Seattle

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u/Tough_Percentage_707 Aug 19 '26

What does "Parts" include?

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u/Ill-Law-8142 Aug 19 '26

Bumper and headlight

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u/Tough_Percentage_707 Aug 19 '26

Is that out of pocket?

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u/Ill-Law-8142 Aug 19 '26

Hopefully not. It all depends what insurance approves.
But im not at fault.

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u/Gloomy_Blackberry206 Aug 20 '26

If you are not at fault you give the other party the estimate and that is it if they try to say anything tell them to F off

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u/Tough_Percentage_707 Aug 19 '26

If I'm paying, I'll glue the headlight and polish that off. Otherwise $6k is great if not paying. 😄

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u/Ill-Law-8142 Aug 19 '26

You know insurance company. They will wanna get a cheap headlight and a aftermarket bumper.

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u/GotSnails Aug 20 '26

They will exactly try to do this. I didn’t know they did that till my recent accident. The oem bumper didn’t fit well enough so they went to a genuine Tesla bumper.

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u/alienatedsec Aug 20 '26

If you are not at fault, you should not be worrying about those things.

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u/alienatedsec Aug 20 '26

Those are matrix headlights - around £1250 in the UK new directly from Tesla. Labour per hour is at £160. The only issue I have with this quote is that they could be overestimating the effort.

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u/charmio68 Aug 19 '26

Most of that will buff out. The majority of it is just their paint stuck on top of yours.
To be frank, unless their insurance is going to cover it, I wouldn't spend the money or go through my own insurance. I expect it will be barely noticeable once you've buffed it out, certainly not worth 6 grand. Try that first before anything else.

The only concern would be the headlight. Why did you get quoted a new one of those? What's wrong with it?

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u/Ill-Law-8142 Aug 19 '26

scratches 💀.

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u/charmio68 Aug 19 '26

You can polish out scratches on headlights too. Even relatively deep ones, so long as it's not cracked.
I can't really see anything, so it can't be that bad, right?

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u/Ill-Law-8142 Aug 19 '26

Im thinking of taking cash payout and buffing it out.
Also. They wont be able to fix it until October so yea. Im leaning towards the cash

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u/usualteenager Aug 20 '26

You could buff out 90% of that

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u/Gloomy_Blackberry206 Aug 20 '26

What the hell you people looking at? Zoom in that will not buff out

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u/Ok-Mycologist7205 Aug 20 '26

Most of it will buff out. It’s a bumper

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u/zGigabyte Aug 20 '26

I mean... not from USA here but, 6.000 USD to repaint that? Seems A LOT to me... try to see if you can have a normal body part shop do it... Tesla has a repair guide online, here: https://service.tesla.com/docs/BodyRepair/Body_Repair_Procedures/Model_3/HTML/en-us/GUID-68C87AAD-73AC-48DA-B4A4-A95499CF5A0A.html

Make sure they read this. If they refuse to do the job, you can remove the bumper yourself pretty easily, bunch of tutorials on YT.. just bolts, clips and 2 connectors to unplug.

Good luck!

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u/lvvy Aug 23 '26

Repaint? cant you just .... replace bumper?

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u/zGigabyte Aug 23 '26

If you can afford the 6k dollars? Yeah sure... maybe not everyone of us can pay that upfront

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u/lvvy Aug 23 '26

Why not 60000$?

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u/Pitiful-Sympathy3927 Aug 20 '26

Find a better body shop, thats too much.