Roger Blassberg 0 Posted June 28, 2006 Had a slight, ahem, incident with the Passat a few weeks ago which necessitates a rear bumper replacement. The old bumper is of the "painted all over" variety; I have bought a very good second hand bumper, which is the wrong colour and will in any case be professionally sprayed to match. The thing is, this bumper has a black plastic unpainted top to it. Will this surface take the body colour paint without undue risk of peeling off sometime soon? I could live with the black-top bumper if absolutely necessary, but would prefer to get it all back to original appearance. best wishes RB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 28, 2006 they'll just 'key' it with some wet and dry (or whatever), prep it, and paint over, should be no problem at all think about it, if you can paint metal you can paint plastic Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dazzyvr6 0 Posted June 28, 2006 actually you need to get it primed using plasticiser/etching primer,just using normal primer the paint will flake off Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supercharged 2 Posted June 28, 2006 Erm, yeah it will need a fair bit of work to look like the original, if it's a good body shop (not an accident repair centre type place) they should be able to do it but you have to weigh up the cost against a new bumper, especially if the cover is available seperatly which it is on some passats. My mums mk3 Golf needed a new one after someone ran into the back of her and it was the full colour coded sort, the first one they bought was a standard one and they just painted it, looked awful, they next sanded it down and painted again - still looked sh1t and I demanded a new one. They next got a GTi one with the textured top to match the arches (on the GTi, ours was a CL) - asked me to 'inspect' it and I came down to tell them it was the wrong one again, finally got the correct one from GSF and sprayed it up, looked ok until they put it on the car and found that it had melted in the oven - (they told me the first one was from VW and I later found out the other party's insurance who were paying told them to use pattern parts!) - finally got the correct genuine one and it's been fine even since... tw@ts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
