Styling Paint
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Someone has made a proper mess of that. Colour and even paint type doesn't look right. For that to look decent again you'll effectively need to start from scratch, that paint is not worth trying to save. In short it'd need rubbing fully back, priming then painting with a bit of blending into the surrounding areas for a smooth match. Unless you're desperate to DIY it for the learning experience don't bother. You'll spend a load on materials etc and nobody's first time painting is any good. Given they're quite large areas they're way beyond some of the better stone chip kits you can get like Chipex.
You could maybe get the finish a bit better by going at the badly painted areas with a few grades of wet and dry and finally some polishing compound. That'll make it look less like some rough plastering but if you want anything approaching "right" I'd say your best bet is to find a friendly bodyshop.
You could maybe get the finish a bit better by going at the badly painted areas with a few grades of wet and dry and finally some polishing compound. That'll make it look less like some rough plastering but if you want anything approaching "right" I'd say your best bet is to find a friendly bodyshop.
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Ouch that's a really messy repair. A body shop would give the best results but is likely to be expensive, DIY will be very labour intensive and probably have poor results.
I would suggest getting quotes from a few local mobile paint repairers. They normally quote over WhatsApp based on pictures/videos so it isn't hard to do. Chips Away are a national chain but lots of independents operate as well. The mobile painters are often much more cost effective than body shops although you have to accept they face more challenges in achieving a perfect result. The price takes account of that though and is likely to be far better than a DIY result.
I would suggest getting quotes from a few local mobile paint repairers. They normally quote over WhatsApp based on pictures/videos so it isn't hard to do. Chips Away are a national chain but lots of independents operate as well. The mobile painters are often much more cost effective than body shops although you have to accept they face more challenges in achieving a perfect result. The price takes account of that though and is likely to be far better than a DIY result.
Sadly I suspect this is worse than it looks at first glance.
Any paint job is only as good as the preparation, and in this case, the preparation is of very poor quality. If you want a better finish, the preparation will have to be done again.
As others have said, this is going to need sanding back to sound materials, more body filler, more sanding, then a complete paint system; primer + topcoat + lacquer, blending it into the adjacent panel(s).
To get a result that isn't going to look like an obvious repair, the bumper will have to come off; refinishing the bumper may need different materials and paint to refinishing the steel panel.
You could certainly improve on this result at home, but getting it pristine isn't really a beginner's project. It's way beyond needing just a quick rub down and a rattle can. A proper professional repair will likely cost multiple hundreds of pounds; you'll easily spend three figures on materials even to DIY it. Decent quality paint isn't cheap, and poor quality paint won't give you a lasting finish.
Also be prepared to find it is significantly more damaged than it appears once you start working on it.
If I'd seen this on a car I had been contemplating buying, I'd have walked away, whatever the price.
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Any paint job is only as good as the preparation, and in this case, the preparation is of very poor quality. If you want a better finish, the preparation will have to be done again.
As others have said, this is going to need sanding back to sound materials, more body filler, more sanding, then a complete paint system; primer + topcoat + lacquer, blending it into the adjacent panel(s).
To get a result that isn't going to look like an obvious repair, the bumper will have to come off; refinishing the bumper may need different materials and paint to refinishing the steel panel.
You could certainly improve on this result at home, but getting it pristine isn't really a beginner's project. It's way beyond needing just a quick rub down and a rattle can. A proper professional repair will likely cost multiple hundreds of pounds; you'll easily spend three figures on materials even to DIY it. Decent quality paint isn't cheap, and poor quality paint won't give you a lasting finish.
Also be prepared to find it is significantly more damaged than it appears once you start working on it.
If I'd seen this on a car I had been contemplating buying, I'd have walked away, whatever the price.
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It looks like most of that’s a bad repair to the plastic rear bumper, not the metalwork. In which case the simplest action might just be to find a used, replacement bumper in the right colour. Plenty advertised from car breakers via eBay.
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Sounds like a good solution and likely no more expensive than @Adam1984 buying the required materials to work on the current problem. With a replacement bumper he can then practice on the damaged one removed from the car?
Adam1984
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I can't find a bumper that's for my car.. I can see black primed ones, do these just need painting?
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It’s a bit more than ‘just painting’…
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