[MarkTN]

I have a 2000 Intrepid ES.Recently was hit in the right rear area of the bumper cover.I cant find any exterior sheetmetal damage and the bumper cover itself wasnt punctured,just scruffed some but it is pushed in quite abit.I would like to know if anyone can give me some instructions on popping the dent back out.Any assistance would be appreciated.This is my first post by the way.Thanks.

[yiranhu]

The bumper cover is plastic. So all you got to do fix the dent is take off the bumper cover and then take a rubber mallet and hit the back side to pop it out. This works very well if the dent is soft (i.e. no hard line of plastic deformation). Because paint don't bend as well as plastic, the paint there might crack and then eventually fall off. In that case, if you know how to do some touch up with a spray can of factory color, then you can fix that too. The scuff u mention can be fixed in the same way except you have to sand off all the scuff so that the surface is flat.

EDIT: to take off the bumper cover, there are 3 plastic rivets on each side holding it to the splash shield. Take a pointy thing and push the middle of it in and then pull the rivet out. I don't think u can reuse these however. But you can get standard pop in ones from autozone for like 3 bucks per 6. Then there's a 7mm screw on each side at the upper corner. Then open the trunk lid and there's 5 more push in rivets. These however you can reuse. Just pop out the middle and then pop the whole thing out. Then the bumper cover just comes off. Grab it at the place where the 7mm screw is and just pull it straight out. Very easy.

[FlyLikeAnEagle]

Ditto the above, however, to HELP keep the paint cracking to a minimum, use a hair dryer or heat gun to heat up the area before popping it back out, and if you can push it out gently rather than banging on it, that will help as well. Hope this helps. J

[MarkTN]

Thanks for the help.I will attempt this over the long weekend coming up.