Painting plastic bumpers
Bobby Spuggets
from red to blue, they also painted the plastic trim and large [originally]
black plastic bumpers, making it all body-coloured. How did they get the
paint to stick to the bumper?
He recently returned to the car park to find some nice person had driven
into his car and taken a good patch of paint off the bumper. Can he primer,
colour coat and lacquer as if it were metal, or is some other method needed
for plastics?
Cheers,
Spugs
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Cj
"Bobby Spuggets" <na...@spam4me.com> wrote in message
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I painted my grey plastic bumpers body coloured white using the following
method:
1) Clean and degrease bumpers
2) Spray with 'Makes paint stock to everything'
3) Overcoat with primer the next day
4) Overcoat with body pain the day after
It hasn't fell of and has lasted a good six months through all weather!
Chris
P.S. I wouldn't use halfords plastic primer , the first time i tried it i
used this and it dropped off over night!
st...@painting-pointers.co.uk
"Bobby Spuggets" <na...@spam4me.com> wrote:
> A friend got his car professionally resprayed. Besides changing the colour
> from red to blue, they also painted the plastic trim and large [originally]
> black plastic bumpers, making it all body-coloured. How did they get the
> paint to stick to the bumper?
The paintshop probably used the appropriate "plastic primer" to provide a
key so the paint would stick properly, also paint requires a flexing
agent adding when used on flexible components to avoid the inevitable
cracking or splitting that often occurs even during normal use.
> He recently returned to the car park to find some nice person had driven
> into his car and taken a good patch of paint off the bumper. Can he primer,
> colour coat and lacquer as if it were metal, or is some other method needed
> for plastics?
The same process would be used to make good the small repair to the bumbper.
Steve.
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