Painted my bumperettes for $60

[Wingnut2u]

Originally Posted by silver arrow

looks good. I'm thinking of doing mine, along with the center console and the black trim between the upper and lower dash. I saw it in a GT2 and it looks great.

I did this and it looks fantastic especially since mine is guards red. Just be prepared, painting the strips between the upper and lower console is the easy part, pulling the old strips out of the dash is a ********************. I am just glad that the wife wasn't home to see my technique, especially since it is her car.

[Frodo]

Acknowledging that it's artifact due to the lighting (or lack thereof), it looks like you painted the whole car, including bumperettes, seal grey!

I like it!

[RobZ]

Originally Posted by Frodo

Acknowledging that it's artifact due to the lighting (or lack thereof), it looks like you painted the whole car, including bumperettes, seal grey!

I like it!

You're right. Now that I'm sober I realized that I painted the whole car! Maybe it was a 12 and not a six pack.

[releese78]

VERY NICE WORK ROB!

You did a great job, I painted mine a year ago and they came out.....decent at best. Luckily, I was having my Zeintop repainted and asked the body shop to spray my bumperettes while they were doing so otherwise I'd be following your lead trying to re-do the job.

[rick3000]

Great Work!
I can't tell the difference between the job you did and the job bumperplugs does.
I have been thinking about doing this myself, but is so much sanding is necessary?

[RobZ]

Originally Posted by rick3000

Great Work!
I can't tell the difference between the job you did and the job bumperplugs does.
I have been thinking about doing this myself, but is so much sanding is necessary?

For the bumperettes I think the order of importance is:

1. Paint matched correctly (metallic is tougher). I like Paintscratch.com's combination of rattle can and flexible primer.

2.Take your time with light even coats and plenty of light to medium clear coats as well as sanding.

3.Prep is important but much less difficult than the soft material on the interior.


In the end, I think I could have done better with even more clear. The shine is better after sanding with 1500-2000 grit followed by good 3m rubbing compound and finishing with the 3m hand glaze. Bumperplugs probably lays more paint and clear on than I did.

Here's an angled shot that shows there's not a 100% perfect match but what the heck, it was done with a spray can!

[23109VC]

for doing it yourself it looks pretty good. I am thinking of doing this myself over the holidays... I'm off of work for the next two weeks...so I've got time to kill and with the bad weather - the car is just sitting in the garage....

i'd likely do what you did - buy the stuff at paintscratch.com and do it over a 6 pack... maybe a cigar too.

[ddb]

Originally Posted by Wingnut2u

pulling the old strips out of the dash is a ********************.

Ain't that the truth!

The smaller strips on either side of the steering column weren't too bad for me. But the larger strip under the passenger airbag kicked my butt. I got so frustrated that I broke it.

Nice job RobZ!