What are my options for SERIOUSLY protecting by front grille and real bumper?

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by NuMystic

Have an '09 Yaris 4 door sedan and moved to a neighborhood that is putting a severe beating on my car.

Rear bumper is covered in scratches and scrapes and the front grill is already cracked which also caused hairline cracks in the paint surrounding it.

Virtually all of this is coming from other drivers when parking. This is a densely populated area where the only spots are parallel parking and people are constantly bashing their way in and out of spaces. No matter how careful I am, it is absolutely inevitable that both the front and rear are going to continue getting hammered.

Moving or renting garage space is completely out of the question.

So before I get the repairs and repainting done I need to have a protection plan or I'm just going to have to do it all over again in 6 months.

Can anyone recommend products that offer serious front and rear protection?

I'm open to anything from things that adhere to or replace the bumpers to a full on nudge/bull bar type solution. Just not those dumb bumper bully things for the back please. :)

I've often thought that if someone wanted to torture me (and keep me in this country ) they would force me to own a car and live in parts of New York like yours, or similar parts of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, or San Francisco. When I was growing up, three different households on my dad's side lived in different parts of San Francisco...and trying to find a place to park while visiting them was a huge nightmare. More recently, a cousin on my mother's side owned about 35% of an old house in Pacific Heights in San Francisco that had been divided into condos. She had a 1 car garage and one space between the garage door and the start of the sidewalk. Whenever she held an event at her place it was a battle to see who could get there first and get that one space.

I like the idea, from another post on this thread, of putting on a trailer hitch with a ball as covered with grease and dirt, etc. as possible (and both front and rear if possible) .