It's at the body shop now, Eli's Collision Repair here in Los Angeles. It's Porsche of Beverly Hills, Audi and Mercedes' go to shop.
State Farm's estimator quoted $1500 and minus 500 for prior scratch. Eli's total, with new bumper, hopefully a Euro bumper, $4700. And I also got a Luxury rental from Enterprise, billed directly to State Farm. I wouldn't go as far as call the Lexus CT 200h a luxury car, but gets me around.
It was very nice to just drop it off at a place I know will do quality work and handle the talks with the insurance company directly. But boy did State Farm try to get away cheap. The shop just laughed at the original quote and flat out said they don't "fix" bumpers that have been in accidents. And their work is covered for life.
Now lets hope they get the euro bumper and get rid of those bumperettes
