As you can see, that center grill is not supposed to be painted at all. Is there any way I can safely and easily remove the paint from that area? Would spraying over it with flat black be a better idea?

 

i am no expert. but my guess is you are stuck painting over it with black. auto body paint is extremly agressive anything that would remove it would in my opinion dammage the plastic.

 

DOH... no safe way respray is in order.

 

scuff it up and paint it over. thats all u can do. sucks cuz its gonna start chipping again

 

Honestly, time for a new bumper IMO. Won't look as good otherwise.

 

You can see overspray on the frame. I would've asked them to take the bumper out to paint it

 

same thing happened to me on my first car. i just removed the front bumper. taped off the front core and resprayed it with some black primer. then taped off the bumper i wanted white and scuffed up the areas that were supposed to be black and sprayed them with black spray paint and it looked good as new.

 

paint/lacour (probably spelled wrong) thinner...sometimes dewax works too!

 

buy the spray paint that you use to paint the side moldings

 

Go to the paint shop and get SEM Honda Trim Paint....its like $9 a can but worth the money

 

The best way would be to mask off the area around the grill. Use Aircraft remover spray. And wipe off the bubbling paint.

 

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What you need to do i tape off the parts that you want painted and spray the rest with aircraft stripper then use some steel wool and scrub the paint off but do this as quickly as you can then rinse it to make sure it doesn't do any thing to the bumper

 

Geez, even your support frame is painted white.

Try use the aircraft paint remover.

 

Your best bet is to scuff the parts you want black and respray with flat black paint of black primer. The black should bond to the white better than the white bonded to the plasitc so if anything chips it will just show black anyways.

 

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I might try this. I'm just afraid it will melt the bumper. I was thinking of scuffing the area a bit then applying the aircraft stripper to a rag and just work the stuff into the paint. I just remembered I have an old bumper I can experiment a little on. If the stripper ends up melting things, I'll spray it flat black and be done with it.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

 

I can't believe some of you think he needs a new bumper. It's not the end of the world.. Damn.. Get some spray paint, scuff it up a bit, and paint over it with some of that trim paint. If anything, it will look BETTER than it did before, because it's new..

And if you can notice it without getting down on all 4's and sticking your face up to the bumper and examining it up and down who cares? I masked and repainted ALL the trim pieces of my CR-X when I got my JDM front end and it looks great.

 

I think the idea about using the spray on stripper and refinishing with molding paint is a good idea. For the metal behind the bumper, you'll need to do the same, strip it and respray with black paint, so that when it chips, the white won't show through.

 

DONT use paint remover or any kind of stripper on the bumper

use trim paint on the center and paint it with that ..............looks good as new
........mask off the rest of the bumper first of course and its better if you remove the bumper to do so

 

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this is what we use at our shop. great product!

 

I went ahead and bought bumper stripper and black bumper coating.



I did a couple of tests with the stripper and some masking tape. After repeated tries, I found that the stripper would seep under the tape and remove the paint. So I decided not to spray the area around the masking tape. Instead, I sprayed the remaining area and everything else with the black bumper spray. Not exactly perfect when up-close, but I'm a lot more satisfied.

 

hey thats actually not bad. I might have to give that a try myself. where'd u buy those two cans.

 

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Autozone.

I forgot to mention that the paint stripper took the paint off REALLY fast. Less than a minute and the paint was already bubbling. Works best when the surface is warm.