Lusso: One week in and...front bumper damage

Argh, very sorry for you.
Valets hurted me 2 cars in Fance great hotels, M3 wheels and 911 exhaust...
Since I prefer appearing "rude" but nobody parks my cars: I do not lend them to anybody I won't give a tip to an unknown to hurt them!

Your bumper does not seem broken by chance (if we can say that), a good painter will fix it imho.

 

Welcome to the forum and I’m sorry for your pain. what colour is the car? I’m not sure what the US rules on carfax etc are but I think you would want to avoid an insurance claim as that will be recorded as damage to the car. It’s a small enough scrape that a decent body shop should be able to fix it and your insurance excess probably equals the cost of the paint job. Another photo from a greater distance would help. And is the plastic cracked? If not, new paint will have it covered.

 

I've never encountered a place where it is not an option. In the case of hotels, I always call ahead and speak with a manager. They will OK self park and if there is a problem with the valet I will refer him to the manager. The worst problem I had was last fall at the Brown Palace in Denver. I had to sign a damage waiver in order to park the car myself.

Of course I always offer a good tip to the valet.

 

Sorry to hear.

All the places where I have gone, I always ask "Is it ok for me to park this myself". I have never been refused--and I do have a Lusso as well

Ken Goldman

 

that's huge bummer. It went all the way through. Repaint is probably the only option but keep in mind if you ever want to resell your car, a lot of Ferrari buyers seems very fond of having the original paint. Lot of us also probably wouldn't care especially in these type of scenarios, but it's something to keep in mind if applicable.

If it were my car, I would just take off paint transfers carefully and see if I can live with a small raw spot at underside of the front bumper before taking it to a paint shop. I'm not sure if that orange is primer or paint transfer. If it's paint transfer, I think it'll clean up nicely except for that small area the scratch went all the way through. Ideally the valet company will reimburse you. I personally don't take any of my "fun" cars to any destinations I need to park with exception of car meets.

 

Same here.

 

Oh that’s a nightmare. I use valets a lot at restaurants around Scottsdale. Always assess the complexity of them parking it if not I find a spot myself and park it. Never had a problem (touch wood)……but always check out the car before driving it off.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.


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100% repairable and won't affect value of the car at all

Are you in LAX? Plenty of high end body shops to over charge on that repair

Do not worry and sleep well!

 

That section is very easy for a good body shop to blow in a repair and then re-clear the whole bumper. 100% impossible to tell it has been repaired and will not affect the value of the car one penny. BTW repairs larger than this are done by Ferrari themselves when cars are damaged in transit. It is never reported and you would never know the difference. That said make sure that whoever repairs the car does so without ever registering it with CarFax. It is a nothing repair but if you insist on going through official channels where someone's insurance pays for the repair then it will show up on CarFax and that scares ignorant buyers away in the future. Good planning now will help you down the road.

 

Looks like you can likely ID the curb that you suspect the valet brushed based on height and color (assuming it's not from another car). If you weren't allowed to park it yourself and it's easy to prove that damage undoubtedly occurred there, hard to argue.

 

Good work, you could get an episode on that TV show Forensic Files!

 

Wow I am very impressed by your detective work! So sorry this happened ,this kind of stuff makes me sick as some others have said if I take one of my nice cars to dinner which I usually don't for reasons like this ,but if I do I always say I will park the car myself , never had a problem as I give them a very generous tip to do this.

 

Thanks for the photos. Blu TdF is metallic but not triple layer so it’ll be medium difficulty for paint matching.

You’re potentially in luck though as the body shop might be able to make a localised paint repair and lose the blend along the crease line where the underside of the bumper transitions to the upper side. it also seems that the plastic is intact (no cracks) which will also make life easier.

 

Congratulations and welcome to the family!

Kind of stinks what happened but on a scale of 0 = no damage at all and 10= OMG the car is a total loss. This is about a 2- its more than some scratches but its relatively easy to repair and the good news is damage to bumpers is not something that usually will hurt you on resale as long as its properly fixed. Keep good records. This will soon be in the rear view mirror and youll be enjoying the car.


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Fwiw, the front and rear bumpers are sprayed individually, so they might even have very minor collor difference from the start. So any repaint will not be noticed, so don't spend any time on thoose thoughts.

 

Welcome to the Ferrari world, sad it began with some damage at the hands of a valet. Won't add to that since everyone else has made all the good points.

I hope you can get it fixed timely so you can go out and enjoy the wonderful car some more!

 

sorry about the scratch... color looks amazing though... great choice and share some photos of the car when you can. would love to see the rest of that car shining in the sun...