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The dealership I bought my car from was nice enough to not so carefully drill 3 rough holes into the brand new front end of my car before I was able to pick it up.
Pic 1
On the white pearl color it looked really bad because of the black plastic sticking out. I took a picture after cleaning up the holes quite a bit and using a white sharpie paint pen the coat the inside of the hole that was black plastic. The hole was immediately less noticeable but still bothered me.
Pic 2
Then figuring I really didn't want to pay a body shop or get the hole plugs online I tried some bathroom caulking white of course to fill them in. So with a rubber gloves I put a dot of caulking pressed it all the way in the hole and smoothed it out with a wet paper towel and kept at it until it was smooth and there was no caulk on the front of the bumper.
Pic 3 and 4
It's not perfect and if you look very close there is a slight dimple. But from standing next to it you absolutely can't tell there was ever a hole at all.
Also I have been on car forums for every car I have ever owned and I know this is a new community but there really needs to be more DIY instructions with pictures. I would also love to see a DIY section with all sorts of things like this and up to the much more complicated and involved.
Pic 1

On the white pearl color it looked really bad because of the black plastic sticking out. I took a picture after cleaning up the holes quite a bit and using a white sharpie paint pen the coat the inside of the hole that was black plastic. The hole was immediately less noticeable but still bothered me.
Pic 2

Then figuring I really didn't want to pay a body shop or get the hole plugs online I tried some bathroom caulking white of course to fill them in. So with a rubber gloves I put a dot of caulking pressed it all the way in the hole and smoothed it out with a wet paper towel and kept at it until it was smooth and there was no caulk on the front of the bumper.
Pic 3 and 4


It's not perfect and if you look very close there is a slight dimple. But from standing next to it you absolutely can't tell there was ever a hole at all.
Also I have been on car forums for every car I have ever owned and I know this is a new community but there really needs to be more DIY instructions with pictures. I would also love to see a DIY section with all sorts of things like this and up to the much more complicated and involved.