So today the Zed has unfortunately taken its first prang and now I'm not quite sure what to do. Long story short, I was reversing into a space in a multistory car park and it looked to me like I had about a foot or so of space left behind me as I know how long my car is, but the car stopped suddenly (with a loud crunch, might I add). I'd obviously hit something so I went out to have a look, and this is what I found.
The picture of the damage is terrible, it doesn't show where the paint has cracked.
Turns out, that entire piece of white metal with the bolt through it wasn't supposed to be there and I'm guessing it used to hold something in place. As I thought earlier, I still had about 6 inches of space left before the end of the space so this bolt was sticking out into the space itself, and my car. The boot was actually bent in where it had been hit, but I'd pushed it back out (cracked the paint work) before I took the picture.
I had a word with the manager of the car park who ended up taking a good few pictures of the bolt and my car and then took my details.
So my question really is, would it be cheaper/easier/quicker to take my car to a body panel repair place and get it smoothed and resprayed ... OR ... try and find another boot off a breaking car.