SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Now I know why you take your body parts to a professional place to have it done.
Attempted to do a repair on a bumper yesterday and today. Got all the correct stuff, paint colour matched, primer and clearcoat.
Rubbed down the affected area, wet and dry and all lovely prepped.
Then primered it, rubbed that down, two coats of colour lightly done and that rubbed down with wet and dry fine. Then two light coats of top coat.

Then got the machine polisher out and cut it and then polsihed it.

Stodd back and thought...that is so ****e !!
The colour does not match for a start, my blending looks like stevie wonder had a go, orange peel everywhere.


I hate ****ing car painting

The Zohan

It can be a real bind trying to match new paint to an old and inevitably faded car, as for the orange peel - that's kinda down to you and the weather mate!

super_ted

iTrader: (30)

Best left to the pro's. Or prep it to save yourself a little but let them do the finishing. At least you had ago first.

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Is the paint too light in colour?

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

The orange peel has really got me down
I thought I had really done everything right and did the spraying in the greenhouse with dust sheets everywhere so nice and clean.

****

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

If it's just the orange peel you can wet flat it and polish it up using G3.

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

I think I may do that but tell the bodyshop that I got the bumper like that when I bought the car

A shade darker

You will be appalled at my spraying mate but I have tried everything to do it right

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

I have given up with it now, feel free to come around and give it a go with the grinder

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

All lacquered up I guess?

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Yes

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

The colour shouldn't be that far out then, the paint is normally good

jaygsi

iTrader: (46)

Had the same problem mate, got paint mixed at halfords spent ages rubing down. It wasn't a bad job, but the paint was slightly darker, which was weird as the guy who did the job in the end said there was only one variation. Masda he did once had 35 variations

But in the end got half of bumper resprayed for 90 pounds nice

Pablofb7

iTrader: (2)

Round these parts we've got a man in a van called Bump 'n Scuff. He did a whole rear bumper for less than 200 notes with a perfect match.

Think it may be a national franchise.

Pablo

jaygsi

iTrader: (46)

Chuff me thats pricey, i got a quote of 150 from body shop for complete front bumper and there good at what they do

warwickd

£150 is still quite pricey when i had my bodyshop we prices used to start at £70 per pannel depending on damage etc etc

jaygsi

iTrader: (46)

It don't inspire me to much when you use the word when

What happened?

warwickd

Got sick of working for myself and went to work for caterpillar painting articulated trucks. I kept my garage for nearly a year while working for cat for my own work but recently gave it up due to working weekends at cat

jaygsi

iTrader: (46)

Well i wish there was someone round my end like you, went to back street body shop they quoted me 120 to spray half the bumper.

warwickd

if i lived closer i would quite happily do it for you.

warwickd

This was a job that i once had, turned this

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jaygsi

iTrader: (46)

Nice job, i got my bumper done in the end 90 pounds. Had a local garage spray a car in the past paint flaked after year pants. I'd luv to go into spraying myself

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

jesus you guys are paying a fortune
I just had both rear arches blown in and rear bumper and front splitter done for £100 including paint
Ok it's a mate but £200 for a bumper is loads.

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Well sorted in the end. Turns out it was the top coat that was the problem. Thanks Paulo you are a star.

Got some more wet and dry and flatted it back then using the rotary I cut it back and polished it and now looks perfect (well when I say perfect, its 100% better than it was at midday today )

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Glad we sorted it out mate, we'll do a better job when we have more time Are the bumpers back on both?

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Only mine as I need the car to get to work. Just managed to fit it all back about an hour ago and have a quick shower before dinner so I never had the time to do Zoe's because I have it in the greenhouse ready for a final polish and clean before fitting it. Need to clean up the tiger seal etc, refit lights and then pop it back on and see how it looks ready for its detail next weekend

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

How did it go putting the splitter back on? Did those brackets work out better?

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Splitter looks okay, just need to clean it up. Brackets worked a treat

scooby seb

iTrader: (1)

Wouldn't get to disheartened by the orange peal fella, after years of working in bodyshops even the "PRO'S" get orange peal, and most/all of them have to be flatted and polished, also it doesn't help using arsehole cans,they make the paint so p155y thin so you can get it out the can at a much lower pressure.

my best mate's a painter and his gun finish is unreal one of the best i've seen but we still flat and polish his job's to get it flatter than a peice of glass but the comments are always worth the effort

may be next time don't flat the base coat as your getting rid of the fade between the new paint and old

i don't know how these people can do some of the jobs on here so cheap (not disputeing anyone) might have to get them to do our pj's and then put our bit on top