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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: ju571n on 30 June 2012, 22:18
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Done loads of search's and looked through loads of pages of pics on here and ed38 before you all shout at me. :laugh:
Anyone managed to graft a plate recess into a textured bumper and make it look good?? Somehow gotta cover the seams up. Possible??
Thanks boys. :kiss:
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I've seen some but think they have been painted.
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Yea that's all I've managed to find. :( looks good but wanna keep the black bits...
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that's what I mean. Think they painted it dark grey. Thing with doing that you will have to paint the lot, arches, door mouldings, etc.
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Yea know what your saying mate. Hmm dilemma's haha.
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I wanted to do it but decided not to for now.
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It can be done. It involves plastic filling the sections and recoating it in a special black textured paint. Apparently it's tricky sh!t to use but looks the nuts if done right. I really want to smooth my front bumper recess and keep the upper textured sections but it's just one of those jobs i never get a chance to tackle.
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Ahh were all in the same boat.. Who's gonna jump first?
I'm confident enough to make a good job of welding it in and smoothing it, just the seams on the textured black bit. Wonder if you could make something up that kind of presses the texture back in.. like a honey comb, press into some warm bumpers... Get my drift!?
Might just attack it on one of my weeks off, got a couple of bumpers kicking about.
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cut what you need from a rear bumper, cut the recess out the front and weld it in :wink:
that way you will only have weld lines on the textured bit, that's if your good at plastic welding.
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There's no need. The products are out there for the job, I'm fooked if I can remember what it's called now though. Maybe ask in the cosmetics section, it may even have been in there that I read about it anyway.
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Ahh just been looking on the google.. Some good stuff in the states made by SEM. Yea just the seams plastic weld the coloured bit front and back for it strength, the back of the textured bit.
This spray stuff Thai.. entire plastics need doing or is it a good enough match?
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There's no need. The products are out there for the job, I'm fooked if I can remember what it's called now though. Maybe ask in the cosmetics section, it may even have been in there that I read about it anyway.
useless post :grin:
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I aim to annoy. :wink:
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I remember now, the spray was made by a company called 'U-Pol' who specialise in automotive bodywork products.
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Yea man nice one, been looking this afternoon. They do Fine or Coarse grain... About £15 a tin, I'm guessing you'd need to do all plastic trim for it to look right.. Therefore I'd be looking at maybe 3 cans?? :laugh:
While in on it, may as well smooth the exhaust cut out too..
What do you reckon? :cool: