Colour coded bumpers!!!

[excaliber22]

I have a black astra with grey bumpers

Can i colour code them myself to make them shiny?

 

[StevieMk3]

u can if u prep and spray it right

 

[excaliber22]

How do i do this?

 

[StevieMk3]

tbh i dont know im waiting on the guide thing to be put up on the site so i can do the same lol

 

[Paul]

as you know, the plastic isnt smooth, you have two options to make it smooth. Use 1K primer or 2K highbuild primer. Not forgetting to use plastic primer before you put any of the 1k/2k primers on! or it wont last very long.

1K primer.
You have to prime + wet sand till smooth, not forgetting to mask of the rest of the bumper to avoid overspray. (240grit should be ok to start with, then when smooth id finish in 800ish grit paper.

2k primer.
This method is alot better, it will last longer, and drys very hard but you have to wait for it to go off (few hours depending on heat).
First of id sand plastic down with something like 320 and then finish it with 800wet+dry. plastic prime it and then give it 2/3 coats of 2k primer, waiting for the primer to go touch dry between coats or you could cause cracking. Then prep it in 500grit dry or 800wet to smooth it all out.

Then you can paint it.

^^^^ thats what id do, some people do it different ways finishing off with 800wet will leave the primer very smooth. just make sure you wash off all the dry water and remask it all making sure you leave no primer edges.

 

[excaliber22]

Think ill leave it

 

[kkuk]

try this site http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/

 

[riggsy]

try this site http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/

detailingworld is more car care/detailing than painting aint it...

bloody good site though, makes you spend a lot of £££ on polishes, waxes etc

 

[griffin1]

Think ill leave it

Thats what most people say to me when I quote them for bumper spraying,and another thing that most people dont realise is you can almost never get a perfect paint match with plastic and fibreglass bumpers,even when factory finished.this is due to the static charge that plastic components give off,which alters paint shades.

 

[Timmy]

Could you not use back to black on your bumpers, i seen it work wounders on most black plasics

 

[StevieMk3]

he wants a shine to it though, doesnt that just give it a matt coating, and i want mine white which is gona b alot of work which is y im gona get som spare bumpers from scrappy wen i can and take my time over doing it

 

[Timmy]

if you get a painted bumnper already will make change and reapling paint easyer as the plastic will take it easyer

 

[StevieMk3]

yeah i know that already but might even save that bit more and get a som gsi bumpers

 

[1.4rob]

ive colour coded my bumpers, tip...rub them down ****ing loads, mine seemed to b ok, but now sprayed you can see the bumps still, the match isnt to bad, but u can tell, even from a distance.....if sumone tells me how to put the pics up ill show you

 

[1.4rob]

i may ov cracked it.....



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[JimmyFlo]

i sprayed my nova bumpers black using holt bumper spray wont look like the car tho but will look better than grey

 

[kkuk]

giv ur car a polish with t cut should brighten up the colour of your car