Previous owner, a lady , hit her wall about 3 times and put a yard of scratches on near side front bumper. So today's task in the sun is to sand, prep and paint the side of the bumper and its going well so far;






...colour match seems spot on. Werd.

 

Looks good so far.

 

Be sure to take your time on it for a good job.

 

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good advice
don't let yourself get lazy and sacrifice time for quality

 

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yea it's not bad in the pics.
No offense man but I bet it looks like crap in real life.
I don't mean to offend you but that's why I am saying "I bet" - because most cases I've seen turn out really bad, the paint doesn't match, I on the other ahnd do not have the knowledge or the ***** to go ahead and do what you're doing, but good luck and more power to you.

 

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it s not ghetto....dr.vinal and on the spot paint companys do it like that. definetly take your time.

 

Louie - I did my grille n skirts, they look like factory paint... theres actually LESS peel on my paint then factory. No shortcuts here, its a perfect fade n match.

Wet n drying the paint upto 2000 before applying laquer gets a perfect glass smoothness.

 

man you reall y should have taken off that bumper!
i would be scared of overspray

 

Purposely left the car dusty, theres no wind and I'm facing from about 10cm, no overspray at all, anywhere. I check these things.

Thing is I've saved my self a fair whack, most repairers wanted £70+ to blend and £150 (nearly $300 !!) for the whole bumper!

My cost, few hours work and a can of primer, paint n laquer. £16/$25

 

You should have painted the entire bumper.

 

why...he's going to blend it himself. If he cant blend then i would have painted the whole bumper...but he seems to have it under control.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by igo4bmx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">man you reall y should have taken off that bumper!
i would be scared of overspray</TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by infinatenexus &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You should have painted the entire bumper.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

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1. its not going to match

2. he has to do extra work for nothing

 

you seem pretty sure its not going to match......Please post pics when complete

 

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looks good from far, but is it far from good? haahaa jk man. thats HOOD RICH, looks ghetto fabulous! if i can save myself $300 i would do it myself too. hope it turns out to what you want it to turn out.

 

true i worked for auto color match.. and you should have cleared the whole bumper cuz it will stand out unless you use blending agent but their's still a chance

good luck though .. post pics when its done

 

yeah they do blending all the time I don't see whats wrong but your supposed to shoot the whole panel with clear im my experience.

 

Camera phone used to take all pics, not great I know but:

 

can you post better pics...i need to see if this method works.

 

Do you have a crease where the tape was? Also what paint did you use? Any clear coat? How did you go about preping it?

 

needs lots of wetsanding and buffing

ps......dont quote me

 

 

better than i could do, but i would've done the whole bumper to be sure it was even, but i guess wetsanding fixes that.