RE: Refinishing euro bumpers

["Neal Tovsen" <sixteen.volt@gte.net>]

Now, that's what I call creativity. Good idea! I gotta find me a dad with a
body shop...

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Corey Muscavitz
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 7:48 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Refinishing euro bumpers
>
>
> my dad and i repainted my bumpers.  (my dad owns a body shop btw...)  what
> we did to ge the texture back, is take some of that spray in bed liner (ya
> know you can get it at parts stores, the 3m stuff works great,
> and make sure
> you get the textured stuff..) then what we did is let that dry completely,
> and then wet-sanded it down, but not all the way so it still left the deep
> craters in it.  then we shot them with red. (to match the car)
> then lightly
> set-sanded and buffed to a nice shine.  they still look great
> after 2 years,
> and the texture is a perfect match to the original.  even when a
> stealership
> tech looked at it, he didn't know the difference!  welp, i hope
> this helps,
> i didn't read the whole tread so don't get mad at me if i reapeated
> something that has already been said.
> HTH!
> Corey
> 88 16v


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