{"id":960,"date":"2005-03-29T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibik.org\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2005-03-29T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T00:52:00","slug":"960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/2005\/03\/29\/960\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, do you remember how I backed into some construction equipment that was carelessly left behind my driveway?  No?  Here&#8217;s a picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbibik.dyndns.org\/gallery\/SVT-Focus-09-01-2004\/SVT_Focus_09_01_2004_005\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mbibik.dyndns.org\/albums\/SVT-Focus-09-01-2004\/SVT_Focus_09_01_2004_005.thumb.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to look into getting this fixed.  Since it is a plastic bumper that was ripped all the way through, I knew it couldn&#8217;t be patched and would have to be replaced.  Given an estimate of $428.17 for JUST THE BUMPER COVER, I knew the final estimate to have it painted and installed was going to be painful.  The final total: $922.08.  My response:  &#8220;F U, good day, sir!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown of the price is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Rear bumper cover: $428.17\n<li>Rear grill: $51.83\n<li>Paint: $89.70\n<li>Flex additive: $6\n<li>5.8 hours of work @ $46\/hr: $266.80\n<li>Tax: $79.58<\/ul>\n<p>I looked around and I found the SVT rear bumper cover and grill for $312.50.  If I just have them paint the bumper cover, it looks like I can drop the price to just the paint, flex additive and 3.9 hours of labor for a total of $299.31.  Including the price of the bumper cover and grill and this is easily over $600.  I may just end up having insurance cover this and paying the damned $500 deductible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, do you remember how I backed into some construction equipment that was carelessly left behind my driveway? No? Here&#8217;s a picture: I finally decided to look into getting this fixed. Since it is a plastic bumper that was ripped all the way through, I knew it couldn&#8217;t be patched and would have to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}