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[Minstral]

Im thinking about spraying my bumpers myself. Went to a few places and they all said about £200 for the 2 and thats taking them off myself.

Been reading a few of the posts by other people. and just wanted to know what to do for definate.

It seems that halfords are the best place to get the cans from?
How many coats should be alright? etc


Or if theres a really good guide somewere would be good
tks

[Chris 2i]

prep work is the bulk of it - the finished article is only as good as the prep before it.

http://www.carsprays.co.uk/ should help a bit

[Minstral]

what are the best cans to use? as above ive read else were that halfords are good.

[knuckles]

Halfords is good value spray for the price you pay

9/10 times the paint doesnt match though.

*cough* diamond white *cough*

[Minstral]

what would u recommend?

[donk1]

its all in the prep the best thing to do is get a spray gun and some paint matched it alway comes out better.

[Minstral]

were can u get it matched?

[Mikee_RS]

i can prob spray your bumpers at work for 120 the pair for a professional job

[Minstral]

but u live in reading

[knuckles]

road trip travis

120 is a bloody good price for a professional spray job on 2 bumpers.

I paid 200 last year for one bumper to get a respray on a mk4 golf.

Do the prep work yourself . . .

[Mikee_RS]

my boss would want 50 a bumper for materials

and 20 would b fine for me

i do it cos i enjoy it

[donk1]

you should take the trip it a bargin.

[knuckles]

thats sounds like a offer too good to miss as long as they match being diamond white.

Fancy doing my bumpers mikee ?

[Mikee_RS]

thats sounds like a offer too good to miss as long as they match being diamond white.

Fancy doing my bumpers mikee ?

yeh no probs

as long as i see the car or u give me some part that it painted i should b able to match the colour,

ill even let u choose the shade u want lol

[volcomstone411]

plastic primer is always the key to a long lasting plastic job funnily enough. Ici sell an aersol for £17

[volcomstone411]

sorry mikee just realised your ganna do it lol

used a sata 3000 tother day, quite liked it, real nice finish. Still bulky item though. Cant think what it would be like full pot roof job. Went really well until airline fell outta hvlp end in mask and paint poured out. Nice fat blobs all over a bonnet lol

[Minstral]

im thinking about it mikee. ive found another car on here that is the same colour as mine. It's called levante grey if i remember right.

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[Big Walker]

Halfords Diamond white is a good match providing you get it custom made using the correct colour code, i had this arguement with a customer the other day. He was adiment that there was only one shade of it until i showed him all the listings on the computer i have for Ford Diamond White which is in excess of 140 different formulas. Fair enough these are very slight differences but you'll notice them if spraying say just a door as it'll stand out against the rest of the paint.

Ford have been using this colour for about 20 years so there is expected to be a few variants over that timescale. And to top it of ford don't even put the correct paint code all the time eg My car V5 colour code, lists an orange and a silvery blue colour, real code is V4 (my car is Ash Black)


But back to topic at hand Halfords custom mix paint is good and the nozzles on the Holts minimix cans they use are really good for spraying btw the paint is still cellulose as opposed to water base also so spraying is easier


ps sorry about the rant

[Minstral]

so u can get them to make it to the actual colour then. thts gd how much is tht mate

[Big Walker]

£10.99 for a spray tin iirc (cheaper than any other motor factor about here by about a £1 or so
£13.99 for a quarter litre tin
£24.99 for a litre tin