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Old Jun 26, 2020 | 11:14 AM
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Fixing Bumper Paint Peel

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My front bumper has a slight scrape that turned into a paint peel. Any suggestions on how to fix this up?


 
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Old Jun 26, 2020 | 01:43 PM
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there's really no kwik bandaid for what I see heree

you could buy a rattle can of body color and spot the booboo but it appears that your front end has quite a bit of road rash so the new paint is gonna show ......

so you could take the bumper cover and paint the whole thing but the bonnet appears to be beat up too (or that's a bad picture)

have you ever shot automotive paint?

You can get proper body paints from AutomotiveTouchUp.com ... I've used for years and they sell perfect color match paint in rattle cans (to original color ... if paint is faded that's a different issue)

Their site has pretty decent instructions for beginners so I'd suggest you go there and read up if this is new to you ..... https://www.automotivetouchup.com/sp...directions.htm

kwik and dirty fix would be to just get the touchup in bottle and brush it on ... it will look OK from 6 feet ....
 
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Thanks.

I've thought about getting a can from Automotive Touch-up and just spraying the whole bumper, but the hood also has as much patina. Maybe I can try to blend it, just to make it a little less obvious...
 
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Old Jun 26, 2020 | 03:27 PM
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is the car black?

how about a piece of black plastic tape!

sort of a minimalist locallized wrap . . .
 
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Old Jun 26, 2020 | 03:45 PM
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is the car black?

how about a piece of black plastic tape!

sort of a minimalist locallized wrap . . .
That would be convenient, but the car is Reef Blue
 
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Old Jun 27, 2020 | 02:26 PM
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tape comes in a bunch of colors!
 
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