Painting Bumper Trim: Help & Advice

[Mat]

Right, once you have applied 2 coats of primer and left to dry (wash car whilst waiting or summat), it's time to smooth the bumper again.

Take a piece of fine 1200 grit paper, and lightly rub over the trim. Don't rub too hard, just enough to make it feel a little smoother again.

Then spray with you colour paint. Nice smooth strokes, and check for slight imperfections (I know there are some in the pic, i've touched them up since)

Now just let it dry. Wax/Polish/Clay your car whilst waiting

 

[Adam R]

right i may aswell write the hints on spraying on here.....

get a bucket of warm water, not too hot but does need to be a good temp.

shake the spray paint can for about 4 minutes (hard work i know) make sure you rspin it a couple of times to get around the inside propperly with the ball bearing.

once you have shaken it for around 4 min, drop it in to the bucket of warm water and leave for about 2 - 3 minutes. remove the can from the water and make sure it feels nioce and warm to touch. then start spraying!

apparently the heat from the water helps the paint molecules to seperate better and gives you a better finish.. also do this with the laquer and you should (if applied evenly with no runs) should produce a paint finish equal to if not better than the quality of the cars standard paint.

one of my mates used this method and got a near mirror finish on his paint.

 

[Mat]

cheers for that fella. will sit laquer in warm water now

 

[Adam R]

hope it goes well mate, looks like from the pics you either did not fully sand down some of the rough bits when primering. good job though

 

[Mat]

it's smooth. Those are really bad/deep scratched from kerbing, leaving certain car parks etc before adding LCR Splitter.

 

[Adam R]

what you should have done is got some filler, i know its a bit ott. but then again the splitter will hide it anyway

 

[Mat]

How high does the car look

 

[Mat]

Put bumper on to see how it looks whilst car is clean(ish):

Was about to Laquer, and it just started to spit! Gonna be riding around high (not keeping bumper on tonight or 2moz)

 

[ian_cupra]

thought i saw your car a bit ago, but now i've seen the wheels you've got on now it wasnt your car,

 

[ian_cupra]

o yeah bumper looks good

 

[Mat]

you may have. I went to Cadwell track day in Feb, can't remember wheels I had at the times. Also, I pop up to Louth now & then to see pops

 

[markmeus]

looking well mat, lol ive been driving round with my car as high as that for the past two weeks lol

i was told it looks like a boat! lol

but i plan to get mine done next week some time.

its all primed, just need time to cut out the middle bits add the mesh and get my dad to spray it.

 

[ian_cupra]

were you in holton le clay then last nite??

 

[Mat]

no

back home now

 

[ian_cupra]

o, was a very similar mk3 to yours then, with your old wheels on

 

[Mat]

LMAO

probably a clone knocking about lol

 

[ian_cupra]

must be mate, i thought wow its mat @ sws, what he doing here, then i remembered you said summin about family in louth and i thought it must be him

how wrong was i, clone it is then

 

[Mat]

lol.

no doubt someone up there saw me and thought "wow, that's amazing" and copied me

 

[Mat]

Just got in and applied Lacquer straight away. Should be finished soon

 

[Mat]

Quite a few coats of lacquer later:

Looks blacker and shiney that the rest of my car

It's dry to the touch now. Cleaned LCR Splitter whilst waiting. Gonna leave to dry a little longer, then attach back to bumper laters.