05-13-2021, 10:10 AM | #1 |
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Front Bumper - Touch up or repaint?
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I wanted to see if my front bumper can be touched up using something like Dr. Colorchip or if it would need to be fully repainted. There are quite a lot of the rock chips (white specks on the front bumper), if you look at the picture (not sure if the quality of the picture would be good enough once posted). Let me know your thoughts. Thank you. |
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Are you okay with your license plate holes? Could be a good excuse to repaint and fix everything.
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Depending on the body shop, some will say no they will want to replace the entire bumper because of the integrity of the bumper and it won't flex correctly to absorb impact. For me, I would just fill the holes and repaint the entire bumper.
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If it were mine I’d respray from any point onward. If your hood is chipped up as well, I’d take the opportunity to respray that - it’ll help with the color match. Blending the fenders would then make the color match perfect
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The bad news about Austin Yellow is that it is a "full respray" color by BMW and it is very hard to match. I just went through this with my GTS hood and basically the shop had to custom mix the paint and we did exactly what RugbyBro described -- painting the hood, bumper, and fenders to get the match closest. Unfortunately AY is just such a unique color that it will never be a "perfect" match unless you do a full respray.
I also used Dr. Colorchip before doing the full respray. It works well if you only have a few marks but again it isn't really a perfect match. I found the Dr. Colorchip AY to be a little bit darker than the factory AY. If you just have a few chips, it wouldn't be that noticeable, but if you fill in all of those marks with Dr. Colorchip it might look like a connect-the-dots drawing. I would recommend trying the Dr. Colorchip first on a couple small marks, wait a week, and then decide next steps. |
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Metallics are always hard to match, but especially colors like AY, YMB, SO, and the holy grail of PITA colors: MW, these colors are never a perfect match. As such, if you would like it to be seamless, you will need to expand the paint past just the piece you want painted. Otherwise you will have a potentially noticeable difference where there is a hard seem such as the bumper/fender/hood line.
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I guess this would be a good time to have the body shop also replace the grills for me while they remove the bumper. Not sure about others but the chrome grill really bothers me on the car :/
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Here is my 2015 bumper after the respray. It can be done well, you just gotta go into it knowing that it isn't as straightforward as most colors. I ended up speaking to 3 different paint shops before I found one that I felt confident could do the work right. |
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Honestly, I would expect $1,000-$1,500. I don't think I'm off-base here as prices where I live are very expensive relatively speaking so $2,300 is way out of bounds. $2,300 including blending fenders and hood is probably fair
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I've seen Ferraris use touch up paint, leveler and a light polish that got rid of similar rock chips. I'd try to touch it up and see if it's acceptable first for like $30-$50.
I'm about to DIY plug my license plate holes as well, there are these things that lots of people are using called "3/16 plastic hole plugs" and they are using touch up paint on them. These are like 1/5 the size of traditional bumper plugs. |
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My front bumper is scratched and pitted to hell as a result of my steep driveway, highway driving and track use. At first it was agony, but once you reconcile yourself to the fact that its the core of the car that counts, you can live with the cosmetic scars. I'm planning to do a full bumper respray at the end of the track season - most good shops should be able to do a good full respray for $1,000 - but I have MG so perhaps a bit less complicated on the blending.
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