In need of advice!
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From: Noblesville, IN
In need of advice! Hey all,
so a couple of weeks ago, some jack*** in a parking lot hit my car with a shopping cart, and managed to scrape a good chunk of paint off of the passenger corner of my rear bumper. Didn't do any damage to the bumper cover itself though.
So my problem is this: While I would love to repaint the bumper myself, and save some money, I have no experience in automotive painting, and I have no paint booth/place to do a high-quality paint job.
I'm tempted to get some dupli-color spray paint from oreilly's, and some clear, but I've heard of how low quality it is..
So, my question is this: Would rattle-canning it myself look horrible? (The car is black btw, so color matching isn't a major issue) or is the 1k the body shop quoted me worth it?
Thanks (and sorry for the long post)
so a couple of weeks ago, some jack*** in a parking lot hit my car with a shopping cart, and managed to scrape a good chunk of paint off of the passenger corner of my rear bumper. Didn't do any damage to the bumper cover itself though.
So my problem is this: While I would love to repaint the bumper myself, and save some money, I have no experience in automotive painting, and I have no paint booth/place to do a high-quality paint job.
I'm tempted to get some dupli-color spray paint from oreilly's, and some clear, but I've heard of how low quality it is..
So, my question is this: Would rattle-canning it myself look horrible? (The car is black btw, so color matching isn't a major issue) or is the 1k the body shop quoted me worth it?
Thanks (and sorry for the long post)
Could also buy an aerosol sprayer. Has aerosol can mounted to a glass jar (low cost). Then buy a pint of urethane stock color base coat & a pint of urethane clear. If the scratch goes down to the plastic, use a small amount of filler to bring the scratch level with the rest of the paint & then primer, first.
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anything you do that's not full on automotive primer, single stage , or base clearcoat can be considered temporary & sanded back off later. For a temporary on my custom steel ground effects and up to the bodyline, I used dupli-color's ceramic engine paint in black. They have a clear also, but when I did my stuff with it the air was too damp & it came out hazy, went to black only since I was in a hurry for a show the next day. Did a partial color sand & buff on it later, that was about 2 years ago.
The spray can stuff on my vehicle was partly just an experiment for others to see how it could do. I do have real paint & spray guns, though not my own proper place to spray.
Rust oleum black enamel can also sand & buff out reasonably well once dried. All spray can paint will fade quicker & need more constant cleaning to match. There are different blacks, but
GM's basic black & most universals are damn close. In buying real paint, there are a few parts to the paint, such as hardners & reducers, so you have to buy more than what you need.
If you have to do actual bodywork on the bumper, evercoat had eurosoft & some other name of flexible filler. Should be able to feather out the broke paint by just sanding though.
If you know nothing about paint & want to learn rather than spend more than a little money, you don't have much to loose trying here. $1k does sound a little steep for just a bumper. Your current bumper likely has poor adhesion & would need to be stripped to do a 100% quality proper paint job on. I could likely buy a whole new bumper & pay a few certain places to properly paint it for me, then install myself. As a future option, you could get an upgrade bumper, such as from 6literdesigns on this site & have it painted. Anytime you can turn a repair into an upgrade, that's something to consider.
The spray can stuff on my vehicle was partly just an experiment for others to see how it could do. I do have real paint & spray guns, though not my own proper place to spray.
Rust oleum black enamel can also sand & buff out reasonably well once dried. All spray can paint will fade quicker & need more constant cleaning to match. There are different blacks, but
GM's basic black & most universals are damn close. In buying real paint, there are a few parts to the paint, such as hardners & reducers, so you have to buy more than what you need.
If you have to do actual bodywork on the bumper, evercoat had eurosoft & some other name of flexible filler. Should be able to feather out the broke paint by just sanding though.
If you know nothing about paint & want to learn rather than spend more than a little money, you don't have much to loose trying here. $1k does sound a little steep for just a bumper. Your current bumper likely has poor adhesion & would need to be stripped to do a 100% quality proper paint job on. I could likely buy a whole new bumper & pay a few certain places to properly paint it for me, then install myself. As a future option, you could get an upgrade bumper, such as from 6literdesigns on this site & have it painted. Anytime you can turn a repair into an upgrade, that's something to consider.
Last edited by jlcustomz; Mar 23, 2015 at 02:15 PM.
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From: Noblesville, IN
I would love to upgrade my bumper. But it appears my only options (from 6LE anyway) are CME bumpers, everything else is just a valence. Not that I mind CME, but the cost of adding that on, as well as the bumper, and then the paint on top of it I think would get expensive quick.
^^E-mail gil@6LEDesigns.com We have a couple laying around, just haven't gotten around to listing them. I THINK we have a couple CME's (the full bumpers, the ones we made and the Zr1 style, not just the CME valances) and I KNOW there's a diffuser bumper sitting at McNord's house never installed he'd probably sell...
