Did this while pissed off and in a rush... never a good combination for driving. This happened in June. I was backing out of an enclosed parking area with metal support beams, turned too sharply too quickly and caught the bumper in such a way that it ripped it off on the driver's side and grazed the hood. I wanted to take off my hood decals for awhile and considered the accident a good reason to just repaint the entire front end--rock chips and general sun-fading from the previous owner's lack of care. Ziptied the front bumper on and went home to inspect damage. A broken foglight and side marker. Pics: Looks great now, but the bodyshop that my coworkers recommended me to did a terrible job respraying it... scratches, fisheyes, orange peel. All fixed now, but it was such an unnecessary hassle for a stupid accident that happened below 5mph. What bugs me though, is that they painted over the bumper underneath the lower grille, so now it's obviously fake.
Yeah you can pop off the bumper, remove that lower grill from the back and either tape it black, paint it black or cut it out and make it functional. I cut mine out. In your pictures the repair looks great.
I just found out that my KIA REO was classified as the most dangerous car on the road. Hot damn!!:beer
Road crash: just one since 1980, I was racing a 3 litre Capri in my race engined Austin 1300 until I understeered into a bridge. Rally: 1st I end over ended my MK2 Escort after hitting a tree, 2nd was short of falling down a 2000' mountain drop in Lebanon, 3rd you all know. Along the way there has been plenty of near misses. LOL