Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: County Durham
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Looking for a satin black or semi gloss fine textured paint for bumpers.
What have people used & woukd recommend?
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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Are you trying to restore an old ABS bumper? If so just go over it with a hot-air gun and it will look good as new again.
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Jimbothebarbarian
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Registered: 19th Apr 07
Location: Cumbria..........drunk..
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Used Wurth stuff back in my bodyshop days. Pretty good effect could be had.
It had different grades of texture and different levels of colour from dark grey through to deep black.
Few year ago mind don't know if they still make it tbh.
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Jason x
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
Are you trying to restore an old ABS bumper? If so just go over it with a hot-air gun and it will look good as new again.
In the long run does this make the bumpers even more faded?
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Mark.W
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
Are you trying to restore an old ABS bumper? If so just go over it with a hot-air gun and it will look good as new again.
Looking for a permanent fix Davey,fed up using different products everytime the car is cleaned.
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Jason x
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Plastidip?
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Mark.W
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Rather not use plasti dip tbh.
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ShEp
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Registered: 9th Aug 05
Location: Dingwall, Highland
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heat gun and regular coats of peanut butter
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Firestate88
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Registered: 10th Jul 08
Location: Northampton England
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Upol do some half decent stuff called Plast-X, comes in different textures, different colours etc
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Mark.W
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Other alterative could be to go down the gloss back or a nice dark anthracite colour but not sure what to do as i don't want it to look tacky.
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SteveoBC
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Registered: 22nd Feb 07
Location: Bucks
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Prep the plastic with red scotch pad you can get from halfords, de-grease it to remove all dust and oils form your hand, brief dusting of plastic primer to make sure the new paint sticks and the simoniz matt black paint, few coats of light dusting, add more if required
results can be found on my old project below
sprayed the old tired arches on this page, scroll down
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=361837&page=1
scroll down to see the rear bumper that the top half was done in black
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=361837&page=4
spray paint used
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=simoniz+black+spray+paint&tbm=shop
[Edited on 19-02-2015 by SteveoBC]
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark.W
quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
Are you trying to restore an old ABS bumper? If so just go over it with a hot-air gun and it will look good as new again.
Looking for a permanent fix Davey,fed up using different products everytime the car is cleaned.
The heat gun approach makes the ABS look like new, however yes over time again it will fade.
The problem you have with painting ABS is its a nightmare to get paint to stick to it properly when its fresh out of the factory let alone after years and years of having silicone applied.
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