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From: msrdude on 9 May 2010 18:50
Someone turned too early into the curb and clipped my car. The bumper
is fine, but it lost paint. I dont want to go to a body shop to re-
paint it. Does anyone know the right procedure to re-paint that
portion that got scrapped off???
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 9 May 2010 20:58
On Sun, 09 May 2010 15:50:58 -0700, msrdude wrote:

> Someone turned too early into the curb and clipped my car. The bumper is
> fine, but it lost paint. I dont want to go to a body shop to re- paint it.
> Does anyone know the right procedure to re-paint that portion that got
> scrapped off???

You could get some Dupli-Color and respray the affected area. I don't know
if they make a plastic primer, but priming first with plastic primer would
be a good idea.

From: Ray O on 9 May 2010 23:48

"msrdude" <kimiga(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a131a3f9-77e8-461d-88a3-532f3cc3f776(a)h20g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
> Someone turned too early into the curb and clipped my car. The bumper
> is fine, but it lost paint. I dont want to go to a body shop to re-
> paint it. Does anyone know the right procedure to re-paint that
> portion that got scrapped off???

When painting a bumper cover, body shops add a flex additive to the paint so
that it doesn't pop off when the flexible bumper cover flexes. The flex
additive is generally only sold through body shop supply houses so there is
no easy DIY method to properly repaint a bumper cover. If the damaged area
is very small, touch-up paint will work. The color code for your car should
be on the VIN plate on the driver's door frame. Look for "clr/tr" with a 4
character color code/trim code. The first character is almost always a 0,
then 1 is for silver, 2 is for black, 3 = red, 4 = tan/beige/brown, 6 =
green, 8 = blue
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)


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