bladerunr

iTrader: (14)

I've got an MT lip that I bought with a few coats of spray paint on it. What is safe to use to strip the paint off and get it down to flat black plastic? Thx

sraey8

Aircraft aluminum paint stripper ????

J/K. I too would like to know as my rear factory bumper is peeling and needs to be properly "cleaned" before reapplying

upstatemax

iTrader: (15)

They have stuff to strip plastic parts... Have never used it, but I have heard you have to VERY careful with it because it is easy to ruin the part.

I would goto a body shop and let them deal with it... My stillen lip was $210 to paint and install at a top notch paint shop with a lifetime warranty on the paint.

sraey8

Hard to beat that kind of deal !!!!!!

upstatemax

iTrader: (15)

Was your bumper repainted?

Mine was (several times thanks to my old dealer), and it was also peeling. I was told by several bodyshops that I would need a new rear bumper to stop it since it was painted so many times. They said one repaint is all they would want to do on a plastic bumper.

This is also where I heard about the paint stripper... They told me that it was very time consuming and it could end up ruining the bumper. It was cheaper to just get a whole new bumper.

sraey8

The longer I have the car, the more it's starting to look like some collision repair was done by the previous owner. The rear bumper is one of those pieces in question since a VERY minor nudge has influenced the peeling of that paint as if it's body paint and not bumper / flexable paint.

I think it only has one paint job on a aftermarket bumper, but looks to be premature paint failure because the wrong stuff was applied the first time around.

Was entertaining the idea of removing the present paint, prep.ing, and spraying the correct stuff.

Orgullo

iTrader: (47)

If it's only spray paint you could sand it off afterall that's what the body shop is going to do. Use a light sand paper to get rid of it. You could use a paint stripper but if you apply it on plastic it will "burn" the plastic, then you'll end up trying to sand that off.

If you don't have a sander or don't feel safe doing the prep work yourself then take it to a body shop. You definitely don't want to Fk it up.

djfrestyl

iTrader: (89)

Dude, what's with the bold? Kill it.

Colonel

You will get MUCH more help if you dont annoy people right off the bat.

sraey8

My bad; didn't know the bold would offend. Always used it aide in seeing it, but no problem.

I agree that in my situation, sanding would be the better route to take and pulling that bumper shouldn't be too much of a problem.

bladerunr

iTrader: (14)

Thanks for the help. I was hoping there was a "gentle" stripper that wouldn't hurt the plastic. Even something like mineral spirits would be too aggressive?

djfrestyl

iTrader: (89)

Mineral spirits would take forever.

Metal Maxima

iTrader: (30)

Sand it, prime it, paint it.

Tried and true.