what year vehicle is it?? if older than 2006, it won't matter at all.

just take the keys and drive it yourself....

I thought the plastic trim was unpainted black plastic to the core?

If this is the case, logically you should be able to sand/buff until the scuff marks are gone, and only clean plastic shows.

Obviously you do not want to sand so much that the hollow core of the plastic starts showing.

That's going to have to go to a body shop.

I dont think it will be hollow anyway as the tooling involved to make the part would be too complicated and expensive to make. It will be a solid pannel injection moulded. It can be repaired by anyone who's got some attention to detail following my last post.:thumbup:

Thanks Dweeb.

Well thats what surprised me....why would it be white.. Surely the point of having a black bumber as oppoed to a color coded one would be to be to allow it to have a few more knocks and scuffs without looking too bad.

If it was black all the way then i probably would have sanded it down and we would not even be discussing it....

So do you think its been repaired....? Thats a little worrying for me but it looks like a bloody good job if it has. How will i be ale to tell...?

Hi,
Firstly don't get worried about it being painted. It is easy to scrape these areas and is a better option than replacing the whole section.Trust me I've paint loads of these but not on an X5. If the white areas are primmer/filler then it has been painted because as mentioned before it should be black to the core.

Are you sure the white paint is not the paint from the car you hit?

Sorry if this sounds blatantly obvious. Just making sure.