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Scratches, scrapes, holes and a PIA

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Old 05-28-2006, 01:01 AM
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Scratches, scrapes, holes and a PIA

I have been contemplating whether or not to just take my car to an autobody shop and have them repaint my bumper or whether or not it would be just easier to correct this myself.

I was guessing wetsanding, compounding and polishing would work but I don't want to spend the money and not have it work. Does anyone have any experience with this?



Ive washed, waxed, polished and used a paint pen to try to cover this crap up. I bought a clear bra but there is no point of putting it on right now. Any help would be apreciated.
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Old 05-28-2006, 01:33 PM
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With some polish you ought to be able to remove the plat frame mark and the scuff on the corner of the bumper.

I got some hole plugs from Home Depot for the plate holes.

Some of the other stuff on the bumper will be hard to get out or make look good, at least it is on mine.
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Old 05-31-2006, 12:03 PM
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I was quoted 275 to repair this. Does this sound right?
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Originally Posted by Split Level
I was quoted 275 to repair this. Does this sound right?
yea, thats actually not bad at all, i basically have the same problem, mines is actuall worse because some of the paint chip off; i got a quote from a shop and they said 350, i was also going to look around for a better price, but i was going to try do fix it myself. ill probably wetsand and polish, maybe even clay and touch up paint.
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