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Offline golfvirgin

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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #10 on: 03 April 2008, 18:10 »
cheers fella , i'll have a look how much these charge for doin that .. but knowin spanish prices for EVERYTHIN   :angry:

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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #11 on: 04 April 2008, 02:54 »
I'm the process of respraying my big bumpers off a mk2 at the moment. Its time consuming work but the more time you put into the preperation the more it pays off. fact! i think the part you want to repair is plastic, and the whole lot wants doing really so you need to:

rub the whole lot down with some 200-400 grit

go over it lightly with 1000ish grit wet and dry paper.

filler the holes

when dry sand the filler back and then use fine hole filler to fill any tiny scratches or small chips and then leave to dry and sand that back flush

then you could probably use a 500ml can of PLASTIC primer and primer the whole lower section.(you can tape off the top black section with masking tape and newspaper.)

then flat that back with 1500 grit wet and dry

then put the top coat on with your colour coded rattle can (problem is when i did mine apline white, L90e, theres 6 different shades of alpine white so the colour match isn't always perfect)

then you'd need to flat that back with 1500

then put some clear laquer ontop

then flat that back again

then polish it!!

now make yourself another cuppa, stand back and admire the work of art you just made!!! If you did it yourself it would take a bit of time as you'd have to wait for the paint to dry and the filler etc also the wet and drying takes a while. It seems a bit daunting at first but you might aswell start spraying somewhere!!  :grin: its good fun!

Offline golfvirgin

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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #12 on: 04 April 2008, 15:57 »
ah well ill have a go , it sounds like fun  :sick: :laugh:

Offline golfmk31993

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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #13 on: 06 April 2008, 18:04 »
dont listen to them mate,

just paint the whole bumper yourself, it will look mint and its really not hard

heres a pic of my front bumper wich i sanded , fillered, primered and painted myself using halfords spray cans




Offline eightyeightmph

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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #14 on: 07 April 2008, 11:12 »
I'm in the process of doing ALOT of panel prep right now, bumpers, wing. bonnet, grill, wing mirrors & light surrounds.

It's horrible, very time consuming & dusty!

Have to say though I'm not a fan or rattle cans, you can get a good finish (as seen above) but it's hard going & as cans arn't cheap the amount you'd use wouldn't be more less than having a pro do it once you'd done the prep. That's what I'm doing :afro:

Also when you flat back the paint, you should be looking at 3000 grit or close to it, 1500 & you'll sand straight back through it! :huh:
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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #15 on: 07 April 2008, 11:35 »

Also when you flat back the paint, you should be looking at 3000 grit or close to it, 1500 & you'll sand straight back through it! :huh:

no need for 3000! you would have to go at it for a while with 1500 wet to go through, you shouldnt need to take much paint off, just flat it back, so not much sanding required if the paint work is good.

i use 1500 - 2000 to flat back and have painted a few cars.  :wink:

also i agree that rattle cans are a last resort if you ask me, the finish is nowhere near as good as a pro job.

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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #16 on: 07 April 2008, 11:37 »
You won't of polished them up by hand though I bet! :wink:

Takes a looooong time! :grin:
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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #17 on: 07 April 2008, 11:49 »
You won't of polished them up by hand though I bet! :wink:

Takes a looooong time! :grin:

very true (should have said that.. sorry), i use a mop and compound, i think i makes a big differance.  :smiley:

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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #18 on: 07 April 2008, 15:16 »
My bonnet is scratched to buggery, and got a nasty dent in the drivers side of it (looks like a key went through it or something). Would it be worth be just buying a new bonnet and getting it painted or try repair this one?

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Re: Bumper painting
« Reply #19 on: 07 April 2008, 15:59 »
My bonnet's in same way as is the front bumper I would probably just cough up dough and get someone who's got the time and paitence to do it.