Question about repainting and blending

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Boston Man

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I had my bumper replaced and repainted a couple years ago. The body shop had to blend in the fenders.



Now, i noticed some paint peeling or chipping at the edges of the fenders and some on the bumper. I'm bringing it back for them to fix it.



What is a body shop's procedure for blending the adjacent panels (my fender)? Just paint over the existing paint?



What can I say to the body shop guy to make sure the clear coat isnt too thin because I want to polish it every year. I dont want any clear coat failure in the near future.
 
When I was getting my hood repainted, they also blended it to the fenders. As far as I know the procedure was: they wetsanded the clearcoat of whole fender, painted/blended the top of the fender (5 inches or so), then re-clearcoted the whole fender (over the new paint at the top, and old-wetsanded clearcoat).

If your paint/clearcoat is peeling, I reckon they haven't sanded properly so paint isn't sticking very well.



I would tell the body shop guy to apply a layer or two extra coats of clear, so you would have a good thickness to polish or wetsand.
 
It sounds like they might've painted the bumpercover *on* the vehicle.



No painter I use will blend plastic bumpercovers into the adjacent fenders. The bumpercovers are painted off the car and then installed. No, they won't always match 100% but the don't on new cars from the factory either.



The gaps between the bumpercover and the fenders can't get bridged with paint or you'll have problems like the peeling. It needs to be painted the way the factory did it so you get good coverage on the (usually unseen) side-edges of those panels.
 
Accumulator said:
It sounds like they might've painted the bumpercover *on* the vehicle.
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Sure does! :shocked



If so, good luck having them do a better job the 2nd time around. Depending on what was done, there's a chance that there's going to be too thick of a film build now on the fenders. I wouldn't worry about it though.
 
Accumulator said:
It sounds like they might've painted the bumpercover *on* the vehicle.



No painter I use will blend plastic bumpercovers into the adjacent fenders. The bumpercovers are painted off the car and then installed. No, they won't always match 100% but the don't on new cars from the factory either.



The gaps between the bumpercover and the fenders can't get bridged with paint or you'll have problems like the peeling. It needs to be painted the way the factory did it so you get good coverage on the (usually unseen) side-edges of those panels.
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Sorry, should have made my post more clear. The chipping is not where the panels meet.



The bumper is peeling at the lower grill which is unpainted. I'm guessing bad masking.



The fender is peeling at the top, under the weather stripping of the triangle window (2006 Civic)
 
then they didn't really get too much clear on that grill area and it only got a mist coat instead of a heavy even coat like the rest of the bumper/panel.



On the fender it sounds like they did a poor masking job and if they really cared,if possible,they should've taken out the weather strip off that area so that they could have good coverage on the edge.And like somebody else said already,they're not supposed to blend bumpers with fenders/1/4 panels or paint them on the car,there's not much u can do about a mismatch on paint because paint reacts different to plastic than metal.
 
Boston Man said:
Sorry, should have made my post more clear. The chipping is not where the panels meet.



The bumper is peeling at the lower grill which is unpainted. I'm guessing bad masking.



The fender is peeling at the top, under the weather stripping of the triangle window (2006 Civic)
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Thanks for the clarification. Eh...at least we also got to discuss the whole "bumpers painted *off* the vehicle" topic.



Yeah, sounds like bad masking (and other QC issues). Sheesh, they shoulda just pulled that lower grill out/off anyhow.



I generally take this approach- the factory didn't use masking tape when they painted it originally, and painters shouldn't use much masking tape either IF (maybe a big "if" because it's not always possible) they can disassemble things instead.
 
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Looks like the lower grill is not removable.



There seems to be a little "over-run" (?) of paint on the lower grill (not supposed to be painted) and that is the paint that is peeling..... Not the paint where the paint is supposed to be. It's very little paint that i think only Autopians would be able to notice.



Anyway, thanks for all the responses guys
 
Boston Man said:
...Looks like the lower grill is not removable. ..
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Heh heh, shows how much *I* know about your car, huh? :o Some of bumpercovers on Audis are sorta like that; some parts are body-color and other parts are black (if you grind deep enough you run out of black though..dunno if it's "paint" or what :nixweiss ).



There seems to be a little "over-run" (?) of paint on the lower grill (not supposed to be painted) and that is the paint that is peeling..... Not the paint where the paint is supposed to be.
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I bet a good painter could sort that out for you. And I know exactly what you mean about how normal people would never see it!
 
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