What is the estimate for repairing a rear car bumper and the taillights typically?”
On my old Nissan Sentra, I was rear-ended and the cost to repair the bumper and lights was only about $500. On the other hand, my dad once backed his Buick Skylark into a short pole and it cost him $2000 to get the bumper replaced. You can probably expect to pay $1000 or more depending on how bad the damage is. If you’ve got an SUV, though, things could be worse: A June 1999 study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that some popular SUV bumpers incur expensive damage in impacts at little more than “walking speed” or five miles per hour. The Institute conducted a series of four crash tests at five miles per hour – front and rear flat-barrier impacts plus two localized impacts, front-into-angle-barrier and rear-into-pole. In other words, standard parking lot accidents. The Jeep Grand Cherokee cost $5,107 to repair after those tests. The Mitsubishi Montero Sport cost a whopping $6,282 to fix. The best SUV tested, the Mercedes ML 320, came in at just under $3,000 to repair
