Last week I got scraped by a car as I was pulling out (I admit, I should have been looking better, I looked twice, not thrice like the adverts say...but anyway the other car should have been going much slower since there were 2 cars stopping indicating to turn in on my left but he just kkept at his fast pace without a worry. Anyway, all that jazz aside my car today is naked, I decided to refit a new bumper myself, honda wanted £360 but breakerlink got in contact with nationwide breakers and a garage contacted me within the hour with a price of £45 for a bumper fresh off the same EG civic (same colour too) and good as new. Should be coming tomorrow. I was going to get a new bumper anyway as the jdm foglights I wanted wouldn't fit on the old bumper (it was a refit anyway, old owner had scrape too it seems) and for £45 I would rather do it myself and not get insurance involved with excess and all that.
Anyway, tomorrow should be as good as gold but it really does look quite funny without a front bumper
Also never realised the washer fluid/radiator reservoir were kept so low down and so big, thought they'd be a little more protected too from impact!
(latch has been fixed, it raised down from the bumpers crumpling, spent the morning sorting this out. Fender wall was a pain to get through though, not much rom to move a screwdriver around in without removing the wheel, managed to avoid it though)
As an off note, does anyone know where I can get the old style Si alloys? barring the black spoke silver rim 5 spokes I have seen on some the Si ones are the only ones I really do like on gen5 civics but can't seem to find anywhere to get them at a decent price :/ - Also having trouble finding front/rear bumper lips
Anyway, tomorrow should be as good as gold but it really does look quite funny without a front bumper
Also never realised the washer fluid/radiator reservoir were kept so low down and so big, thought they'd be a little more protected too from impact!
(latch has been fixed, it raised down from the bumpers crumpling, spent the morning sorting this out. Fender wall was a pain to get through though, not much rom to move a screwdriver around in without removing the wheel, managed to avoid it though)
As an off note, does anyone know where I can get the old style Si alloys? barring the black spoke silver rim 5 spokes I have seen on some the Si ones are the only ones I really do like on gen5 civics but can't seem to find anywhere to get them at a decent price :/ - Also having trouble finding front/rear bumper lips
Bumper was £45 getting it myself and the rest is all a bit of spare time. No other damages other than bumper though so I chose the most convenient option and I also would have had to buy a new bumper anyway 
