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Hey everyone, I purchased my current s2000 a little over a year ago now. For Christmas my girlfriend got me a OEM front lip. After waiting around for 10 months I finally decided to paint it Also when I purchased the car the rear bumper was missing clear coat only on the drivers side (odd) but figured this would be a good time to repair that too!
What I purchased was 2 cans of base coat (sebring silver)
2 cans of primer
2 cans of clearcoat
and a sandpaper package with wet sandpaper
The front lip went really well and not difficult at all.
The rear bumper I found to be pretty tricky. I sanded everything down, primed, sanded, painted, cleared, wetsanded, and buffed.
I think it turned out very well for not doing this very often!
I have a few rust spots i'd like to tackle next I will post when I do!
All in all with the paints available at the website I linked to it saves a ton of money to do it yourself. The rust repair im more skeptical on taking on myself, but the bumpers being plastic I wasn't very worried if I would have messed up.
Nice work. I'm considering the same route to paint this free rear bumper I got for my bucket. What did your total cost end up being?
total cost was about $80 thats for 2 cans of primer, 2 cans of base, 2 cans for clear, and a assortment of wetsand paper. http://www.automotivetouchup.com/?A=508
that got my whole front lip and the rear bumper with some left over.
Was the lip primered?
If not, you needed to use adehesion promoter.
Good job on the bumper.
the lip came not primed. I primed it before painting with regular primer but you are right, i should have used a adhesion primer. Its still holding up good but we will see what happens after winter... I might have to redo it.
That turned out really good. I find that automotovetouchup's paint really matches well, i used their products on my truck before, nothing on my car yet.
If the lip was pre-primer then you won't have an adhesion problem unless you didn't skuff it before you primed it. Only time I reprime parts is when it has etch primer on it (metal panel). What I do with pre primered plastic parts is scuff them then shoot the base. If it's a metal panel with that thin black primer I'll lightly skuff and surface prime or seal it with epoxy primer. Looks good!!!
DIY Paint Repair
Also when I purchased the car the rear bumper was missing clear coat only on the drivers side (odd) but figured this would be a good time to repair that too!
