Chrome bumpers made a quick exit from the automotive scene in the late '80s. In their place are elaborate, but flimsy, plastic covers hiding stamped-steel impact beams with a wide swath of Styrofoam ...

Replacement bumper covers can cost more than $1,000. But dents in the soft plastic bumper covers on cars and SUVs can often be smoothed out at home by applying heat and a little elbow grease. It takes ...

Maybe you've been there, trying to drive your car into a corner too quickly or simply putting it in Reverse and cringing at the crunch. The resulting damage used to mean a quick trip to the auto-parts ...

It is deceptively easy, but usually very expensive, to junk plastic car parts when they are damaged in crashes. Zip off that damaged bumper bar, side mirror or headlamp and bolt on a fresh one.

As if the unusually cold winter in eastern Canada wasn’t bad enough, body shops are reporting having to fix more than the usual number of car bumpers at a cost of about $1,000 each. In the good ole ...

If you wash your own car or are checking out a potential new purchase and notice a difference in the shades of paint from one panel to the next, your immediate thought might be that it's been ...

While pulling into our driveway this past winter, I hit one of those huge snow banks that had turned into rock-hard ice. I know, what’s wrong with my eyes, right? I took out a piece of the plastic ...