View Full Version : Whats the deal with Plastic painted Bumpers?
slowride66
06-09-2010, 08:40 PM
Hey Y`all.
I have a few Questions about why paint acts so different on this new painted plastic bumpers.
{I am old school bumpers are supposed ta be metal & chrome:lmfao}
I have a Customer with a `05 Quest the front bumper has bugs {for lack of a better word} melted into the paint & the rear has a some chips & sometimes it looks like its just wrinkled out of the way .
How common is it to have them stripped down & re painted?
Thanks for your time
SR66:bigups
JaredPointer
06-09-2010, 09:00 PM
My guess - paint can be likened to a hard candy shell. It`s thin, flexes very little. Applied over a plastic bumper that`s designed to give way (or flex), it can only go so far before it wrinkles, cracks or chips from a small, yet directed impact.
black bart
06-09-2010, 09:57 PM
Car may have been repainted. It requires a special primer and paint designed to flex if someone painted it with regular paint it will not hold up.
That is what I miss on new vehicles, my Explorer and Ranger both have chrome bumpers front and rear plus chrome grill.
New cars are plastic everything and all of them look like a jelly bean.
slowride66
06-09-2010, 10:26 PM
Now that is being nice .
I think they all look like suppositories on wheels!:yikes:
Give me a Boat Tail Riviera Or a 55 Caddilac Coupe D Ville Any day they Got curves & bling that Beyonce` can only dream about.
I don`t think the Quest was re sprayed the owners would have told me , Unless it was re done @ a dealership prior to their ownership {one owner}.
I dunno, All I do know is this is not the 1st time I have seen this "soft paint on plastic bumpers.
Its not very durable.
SR66:bigups
shuddleston
06-10-2010, 01:17 PM
I have an 08 Dodge Ram Truck and if I don`t stay on-top of polishing the chrome I believe it would be rusted off within 2 years.
slowride66
06-11-2010, 07:11 PM
Man those new trucks must be made out of tin foil I see them things dented & twisted all the time. they dont make them like they used too
Now this is a front bumper!
SR66:bigups
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j104/slowride66/1988%20Chevy%203%20plus%203%20Dualie/Picture112.jpg
tuscarora dave
06-11-2010, 10:05 PM
Man those new trucks must be made out of tin foil I see them things dented & twisted all the time. they dont make them like they used too
Now this is a front bumper!
SR66:bigups
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j104/slowride66/1988%20Chevy%203%20plus%203%20Dualie/Picture112.jpg
Wow, now that`s a truck!!! That thing have a 366 in it?
slowride66
06-12-2010, 03:05 PM
Negative currently a Small Block 400 .
I have a "target GM Crate motor" `supposed to be a 350/350 HP
It has a bad throw out bearing so the SB400 is coming out soon & the Target motor is going in .
But it have to be cleaned up & pained & all that stuff .
Here`s some pictures from when I built this truck a few years back I spent 4 month every day {that is was not raining} saving this truck from the bone yard.
Now I wish I had the resources to paint it.
SR66:bigups
1988 Chevy 3 plus 3 Dualie pictures by slowride66 - Photobucket (http://s78.photobucket.com/albums/j104/slowride66/1988%20Chevy%203%20plus%203%20Dualie/)