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dang racoons I let my dad drive my car to work and he brings it back with paint cracking and flieing off my front bumper and urethane body kit. 
He said he ran over a coon doin about 25 but im gonna say he was doin at least 60 cause i know my dad....lol. My question is do you think the cracks are just in the paint or does the bumper probably have stress cracks?
He said he ran over a coon doin about 25 but im gonna say he was doin at least 60 cause i know my dad....lol. My question is do you think the cracks are just in the paint or does the bumper probably have stress cracks? Thread Starter
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Originally Posted by GR33N GoblinM6
"Coons??... Coons come on the back porch all the time... ma'ma just sweeps em off with a broom"
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Originally Posted by EarlSS
I let my dad drive my car to work and he brings it back with paint cracking and flieing off my front bumper and urethane body kit. He said he ran over a coon doin about 25 but im gonna say he was doin at least 60 cause i know my dad....lol. My question is do you think the cracks are just in the paint or does the bumper probably have stress cracks?
He said he ran over a coon doin about 25 but im gonna say he was doin at least 60 cause i know my dad....lol. My question is do you think the cracks are just in the paint or does the bumper probably have stress cracks?It can be stripped and refinished to be like new again, so that's the best news out of a crappy situation.
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Originally Posted by Tim Noel
More than likely, just in the paint. Won't know for sure unless I could see it in person(or some good up close pics), but most generally something this small just cracks the paint seeing as the bumper is urethane. If it was a cheap body kit made of plastic it probably would have cracked it, but not with urethane. It is pretty durable stuff.
It can be stripped and refinished to be like new again, so that's the best news out of a crappy situation.
It can be stripped and refinished to be like new again, so that's the best news out of a crappy situation.
Last edited by phantomzer0; Mar 26, 2007 at 05:02 PM.
Unless you know what you are doing, I don't recommend this. Usually body shops aren't charging you that much more to sand it themselves. If you aren't careful you may sand one area too much and cause your bumper to become wavy. If this is the case, it will wind up costing you much more in the long run.
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If you want it down to the bare urethane, it's best to strip it with paint stripper(with bumper off the car). It's much easier, and won't eat up alot of sandpaper and time in the process..
I would suggest letting the shop do it all. I hate when people bring stuff into the shop that they have already tried to work on, and want me to finish fixing it. In alot of cases it costs more to fix what they have messed up, in order to have a nice paint job.
Better to let the guys who do it for a living, do it right the first time, instead of doing it yourself with little or no experience. JMO..
I would suggest letting the shop do it all. I hate when people bring stuff into the shop that they have already tried to work on, and want me to finish fixing it. In alot of cases it costs more to fix what they have messed up, in order to have a nice paint job.
Better to let the guys who do it for a living, do it right the first time, instead of doing it yourself with little or no experience. JMO..
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I'll probably just let a shop do it for me since i dont want to mess it up and be out more money in the long run. To me it dont look like the bump has stress cracks though.