Cracked front bumper :(

Most of the bumper plastics can be plastic welded. If you do that correctly it will be just as strong as new and will only look like scratch (that can be painted with touch up paint). Bumper cover (probably) needs to be removed to repair. Proses itself depends on type of plastic which I don’t know but it should be written on the back of it.

 

I had about a 2 year old 1998 Camry. I was going extremely slow preparing to enter my driveway. I started sliding, like you, hit a frozen snow bank beside my driveway and the front bumper cracked, much larger than your's. I bought some auto plastic glue that you mix in equal parts and glued it together when the weather turned warm. I then touched it up. The broken parts fit perfectly together. It was not perfect but it looked good enough. Your car is a leased car. I would imagine you will have to get a body shop to do a pro job on it otherwise when you turn the car in you may have to pay for the damage. These lousy plastic bumpers will crack like glass when the temp is really cold.

 

Today's "bumpers" are in fact flimsy, fragile fairings, painted black plastic that shows EVERY ding, barely able to hold itself together and stay connected to the car. On the other hand: they don't rust, and they're not an integral part of the car.

Maybe if folks just do rudimentary patch up it'd shame the manufacturers into designing a half decent bumper?

 

I agree with that. When another car barely touches you or you hit something, no matter how small the hit is, if you just barely feel it, you are going to have damage. When we pay a lot of money for a new car and that happens we all know the feeling we get.

 

Plastic welding the crack will get it to look like just a scratch. Then it depends on painter and lease company policy on what to do after that. Touch up paint or partially or fully painting the bumper.

 

This is no brainer work for a good bodyshop. As it's a lease, maybe you need to talk to the dealership as they are the one's that will do the lease return inspection and determine your added fees/penalties.

 

That's probably what the dealer will do unless it is a professional repair job.

 

Frodoz has a good point. I would follow his advice.