My beautiful car got scratched!

[MEDUSA]

Am absolutely gutted.  I drove my lovely MINI ONE into a parking space...heard a thud and realised I'd driven up against a bricked up air vent that was so low I didn't realise it was there.  My bumper got scratched.  Does anyone know how much a repair will cost and whether buying and fitting a new bumper would be cheaper?  Thanks :(

[Hermia]

Is it the paintwork that got scratched and is it very deep? My car got badly scratched recently and my neighbour used some stuff called Colour Magic on it (by Turtle thingy). It worked a treat although it requires a lot of elbow grease.

[MEDUSA]

Yes it is the paintwork. It is quite deep in places i.e. it's gone all the way through the paint to the black plastic/fibreglass surface at its worst.  There are shallower scratches though so I may give your suggestion a shot anyway.  Thanks!  Do you know if this stuff works like T cut and blends the surrounding paintwork in?  I imagine if it does, I'll need to be careful not to rub too much in!

[Cockney_si]

There's a company called 'chips away' that usually sort this problem out, they can arrive at your work and do the job too (as long as there's power for their tools at work).

http://www.chipsaway.co.uk