Smoothing rear rub strips and anni valance

[CM690]

I want to go for this look



and me and my dad were going to smooth it when my car was going in for its respray but my dad suggested filling it with fiberglass filler and then normal filler but then said it would probably crack too easily and he simply didn't have the time to do it anyway as I was pushing it for a free respray as it was

I thought about plastic welding the rub strips but how would I go about this really? what section could I cut out of a bumper to plastic weld into the gaps? Anyone done this?

cheers

[cullygti]

been done a few times mate you need another rear bumper to cut out the section just below the rub strips and then plastic weld them into the one you want to smooth

[CM690]

been done a few times mate you need another rear bumper to cut out the section just below the rub strips and then plastic weld them into the one you want to smooth

Cheers mate sounds simple enough I think they should have come smoothed from VW to be honest

[cullygti]

yeah i quite like it im in a dilemma if i should do mine or not 

take a look through the build threads should see summat in there of how its been done 

[1.6mk4GOLF16v]

that looks wicked, got a link?

[cullygti]

take a look at balderz build thread looks so much better with the anni valance 

[ALBEEEEY]

Mk5 came with smoothed bumpers!! Maybe this was because the cool kids smoothed their mk4's 

[ALBEEEEY]

I also heard somewhere that you can buy replica bumpers that are already smoothed from German eBay? 

[balderz]

As cullygti says look at my build

[ALBEEEEY]

Did you buy that already smoothed though Balderz?