i brought my bumper to a paint shop and they said they wont paint it cuz its a type of bumper where the paint won't stick to it. the bumper was painted before but the paint came off really easily, like u can peel it off. anyone know what this guy at the shop is talking about? bumper is not oem btw

 

What car does this bumper belong to?

 

92-95 civic

 

you should go back and ask them why they are a paint shop.

anything is paintable. even your mothers underwear

 

probably have to add a good primer or something... try another shop, f them.

 

It is paintable but they will need to use a felxible primer or something like that. If they can't paint a honda civic bumper what can they paint?

 

trying asking them to use something called "etching" primer i believe. the primer fills in all the "unpaintable" areas. etching primer is also sandable in order to allow paint to stick.

i'm not expert, but no harm in askin

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by j4tuned &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you should go back and ask them why they are a paint shop.

anything is paintable. even your mothers underwear</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol

 

id tell that paint shop that they're ****** morons

 

i bought a non oem front bumper when i painted my old hatch, the body shop said they used something special for the paint to stick and after that i had no problems with paint peeling off, it looked brand new. You should try a different shop

 

That shop... what a n00b.

 

for stuff like that you want to use adhesion promoter. I saw a video on the duplicolor website that said for plastics that dont hold primers you wanna use an adhesion promoter which is basically a clear primer. Just tell a bodyshop to use that...

 

Go somewhere else. As a customer, I would not want my **** painted there if I have to tell them what to use...

 

its paintable man...

 

look for some stuff called bulldog

 

so the shop doesnt know wtf they're talking about huh? the shop was maaco by the way.. the reason i took it there was because there was that they had a good rep and did a good job. thanks for the advice!

 

LMFAO MAACO...GOOD REP...TRY AGAIN lol

maaco is lazy, they paint like 15 cars a day and they all look like ****. take it to an actual shop

 

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maaco is lazy, they paint like 15 cars a day and they all look like ****. take it to an actual shop</TD></TR></TABLE>

^ lol. somewhut true. i've seen both good jobs and bad jobs.

they can be really cheap.
good = 299$ for a full paint job.
bad = they'lll paint right over ur existing paint...

 

ya they dont sand anything, when i paint i sand the whole car with 320 dry, and scuff everything.

here is my lastest job, my car,

 

yesssss<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ludesrv &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Go somewhere else. As a customer, I would not want my **** painted there if I have to tell them what to use...</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ludesrv &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Go somewhere else. As a customer, I would not want my **** painted there if I have to tell them what to use...</TD></TR></TABLE>
Took the words right outta my mouth.