4-Ripcord
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Color Matched Bumper
|June 29, 2012|
Well, the bumper is finally color matched and boy does it look good!
I won't bore you all over the details too much. But Ill go over the stuff I used.
For the color Matched paint, I turned to Napa paint stores. Not just any Napa store can do it, it has to be a specialized Napa paint store. What they do is mix the paint right there in the store, all they need is the paint code. They can put it in aerosol cans, small and large paint buckets, prep it for a paint gun, etc..
The only downside is that they do not add hardeners, so they paint take a few days to dry. I really insisted that they add hardeners, even asked to talk to a manager. But, they remained firm on their rule.
At about $17 a can, I think it was a pretty good deal.
The pain process involved 2 coats of self etching primer, 2 coats of primer sealer, 3-4 coats of color matched. and 3 coats of black bumper coating on the backside.
Being that this Thundercloud from napa is a single stage paint, it does not require any clear coat after the base coat.
Hang the bumper by some bailing wire and get to it!
Instead of color matching the back side too, I just used some heavy duty bumper coating in black.
I had to wait like 2 1/2 days for the paint to dry, AND HERE IS THE RESULT!!
what do you think?
EDIT: 9/19/2012
Added Metallic Blue Winch Fairlead.
|June 29, 2012|
Well, the bumper is finally color matched and boy does it look good!
I won't bore you all over the details too much. But Ill go over the stuff I used.
For the color Matched paint, I turned to Napa paint stores. Not just any Napa store can do it, it has to be a specialized Napa paint store. What they do is mix the paint right there in the store, all they need is the paint code. They can put it in aerosol cans, small and large paint buckets, prep it for a paint gun, etc..
The only downside is that they do not add hardeners, so they paint take a few days to dry. I really insisted that they add hardeners, even asked to talk to a manager. But, they remained firm on their rule.
At about $17 a can, I think it was a pretty good deal.
The pain process involved 2 coats of self etching primer, 2 coats of primer sealer, 3-4 coats of color matched. and 3 coats of black bumper coating on the backside.
Being that this Thundercloud from napa is a single stage paint, it does not require any clear coat after the base coat.
Hang the bumper by some bailing wire and get to it!
Instead of color matching the back side too, I just used some heavy duty bumper coating in black.
I had to wait like 2 1/2 days for the paint to dry, AND HERE IS THE RESULT!!
what do you think?
EDIT: 9/19/2012
Added Metallic Blue Winch Fairlead.
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