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Was wondering if there is anyone here who has painted their stock bumper/fender/side skirts on an 08 GTI and if so how it looks, where did you go and cost?
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Re: Painting stock bumper/fender/side skirts 08 GTI
I am assuming that you are talking about the textured lower valance and skirts on your GTI? If so, I would suggest to you a couple of things,
They are difficult to paint because they have a tendency to go fuzzy when you try to sand them and the textured surface is still visible through the paint unless you prime them first.
Second, make sure that you adhesion promote the hell out of them. In order to get the primer or sealer to stick to the plastic you need to use a special adhesion promoter.
Third, those lowers take a lot of rock abuse and seem to show rock chips worse because the black shows through the color.
If I was to hazard a guess as to what it would cost, I would say the front valance 300 bucks, side skirts 200 each and rear 250? If they were off the car and just loose pieces it would probably save you 400 bucks.
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Re: Painting stock bumper/fender/side skirts 08 GTI
Not sure how much it would cost at a shop, but I did the rear valence on my mk4 by hand. I first sanded, then used an adhesion promoter, then several coats of filler primer, with sanding in between and then color and clear. Took forever and the texture is STILL visible after all that work. I've heard some people have had good experiences with body shops being able to remove/cover up the texture, I would be interested to see how your experience goes as I might want to send mine in eventually.Comment
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Re: Painting stock bumper/fender/side skirts 08 GTI
I've done this before back when I was working at a shop. If you want to get rid of the texturing, you are going to have to sand, adhesion promote, primer, block, reprimer, block sand fine then paint.
You NEED to use mixed primer for the best results (Primer + Reducer + Hardener).Comment
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