General painting OEM bumpers

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Could you get away with rubbing down the oem bumpers until smooth, then spray them the same colour as the rest of the car to get the colour coded bumper effect?

That way that leaves me just wheels and suspension to mess with, without having to pay shed loads on insurance
 
Personally i think the black plastic bumpers look good.

If u wanted body coloured bumpers though, i wouldnt mess around with all the priming and smoothing that you'l have to do, just get some bumpers off an Uno Mambo at a scrappy. They had body coloured bumpers as standard.

When u put some alloys on and get it lowered it might look something like these... the black plastic bumpers give it a 'rally' look imo.
 

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Well I don't go to anything like that much trouble... scrub the bumpers with soapy water and Scotchbrite... spray a light coating of Plastic Prime aerosol primer... only very light... paint the upper part with bumper coating (black), wait to dry, mask off with tape and newspaper, paint the bottom part with body-colour paint. Use a clear coat for greater durability.

I have seen Unos with the whole bumper painted body-colour but I prefer the effect as you see in my signature pics.

-Alex
 
Bushboy said:
i bodycoloured the bumpers on my old uno. pretty easy actually.. i just gave them a quick sand. put a coat of plastic primer on and then the colour coat and then lacquer.

I was speaking to my dad about it, i should be able to just spray with high build primer to get the smooth surface then spray as normal. Ive got proper spraying equipment so dont really need to laquer it all, its mixed in with the paint.

But thanks all for the suggestions :)

Now just gotta get rid of all that stupid silicone off them from the back to black it was smothered in. That stuffs lethal i tell ya, a small tin of thinners later and its still got it on :bang:
 
You should use specific plastic primer first as the normal stuff is only designed to bond to metal surfaces; I've seen cars with home-sprayed bumpers were the paint flakes off after a few months.
To shift the silicone stuff, try a plastic pan scrubber type thing (ie nick one from the kitchen) and scrub it off with hot soapy water. Thinners probably isn't a great idea on plastic bumpers as it eats certain types of plastic :eek:
I thought about colour-coding my bumpers but decided that it was too expensive in paint and I couldn't really be arsed as they're only bog standard SX bumpers :rolleyes:
 
JonnyBoy said:
You should use specific plastic primer first as the normal stuff is only designed to bond to metal surfaces; I've seen cars with home-sprayed bumpers were the paint flakes off after a few months.
To shift the silicone stuff, try a plastic pan scrubber type thing (ie nick one from the kitchen) and scrub it off with hot soapy water. Thinners probably isn't a great idea on plastic bumpers as it eats certain types of plastic :eek:
I thought about colour-coding my bumpers but decided that it was too expensive in paint and I couldn't really be arsed as they're only bog standard SX bumpers :rolleyes:

Mine are standard too, just makes the car alot newer IMO. but then the punto looks alot more modern than the uno ;)

Thanks for the scrub tip, i'll have to givet that a try. The thinners i used was fine for cleaning plastic surfaces, so wasnt too worried. If all else fails i'll just have to sand most of it off with wet n dry then do something :confused:

I'll have to check my primer, i think i've got 2 so should have a plastic one. if not, do they do it in a cheapo aerosole? Dont know if i can be bothered to mix up another lot of primer.
 
Have a search around the local scrappies for an Uno Mambo edition, theres quite a few in scrapyards near me, so might be the same near you.

These have the bumpers body coloured as standard so theres no need for the plastic priming/sanding, etc.

Alternatively, find some Uno SX bumpers, they have the effect Alex was talkin about. I think the whole of the bumper body coloured will look too much imo.
 
luke1985 said:
... if not, do they do it in a cheapo aerosole? Dont know if i can be bothered to mix up another lot of primer.

I'm pretty sure Halfrauds flog it, last time I bought paint from there it was buy 2 get 1 free too.
 
Found some pics of different front bumpers Luke, in red so u can visualise what they'd look like on your car.

Uno SX

4301uno15sx.JPG


This has the grille u want too!

4301novitecuno.JPG
 
That Uno SX with the red lower valance looks good :) fit some subtle body-coloured sideskirts and it'd be sweet (y) nice colour too although I'm clearly biased!
 
chrisunoman said:
Found some pics of different front bumpers Luke, in red so u can visualise what they'd look like on your car.

Uno SX

https://www.fiatforum.com/gallery/data/500/4301uno15sx.JPG

This has the grille u want too!

https://www.fiatforum.com/gallery/data/500/4301novitecuno.JPG

Cheers for that (y)
I think i will spray it all the same colour, and if it looks crap i'll mask off the area like on the SX version and sand it down and respray black. Either that or detail it using black.

And im liking that grill on the second pic :D

As for the breakers, ive had a fair few trawls around and nowhere near me seems to have any uno's whatsoever. I think they had 1 ages ago which i had the rear light covers from (as my last lot were nicked - yes the OEM ones were nicked :bang:) and the wing mirrors. The car meraculusly(sp?) dissapeared after that. Never seen one since :(
 
cm246 said:
Chris on your thubnail attached picture how low are this unos?do you know?
Do you mean the bright red one?

Id say more than 60mm, as mines 60mm and isnt that low, its possibly on a set of Bebe springs.

Or maybe coilovers.
 
Dunc Uno Turbo said:
hmmm, really dont know what to do about my bumpers. prob going to leave em black to tell u the truth

liking the SX bumpers tho

as for the grill, should i do it like that with 1 bar accross or cut it out either side leaving the fiat badge only?

Dunc

Thats what im contemplating, think im gonna go for keeping hte badge and taking out the side bits, colour coding the badge then having black racing mesh behind it.

Chris, Just noticed that red uno in the attachment has the standard wheels that i've got on mine - just mine are painted
 
Id do the grill so that you keep the one bar goin across and bin the fiat badge! :p

And id leave the bumpers black too if that were my car.

Luke, are u goin to keep your standard wheels or get a set of alloys (y) ?
 
chrisunoman said:
Id do the grill so that you keep the one bar goin across and bin the fiat badge! :p

And id leave the bumpers black too if that were my car.

Luke, are u goin to keep your standard wheels or get a set of alloys (y) ?

I will eventually get a set when i can afford them. for now ive just made do with what i've got - just have to repaint them and lacre them this time. Rust has came through again :mad: But might get a set of these if i can get the right size
monzablack.jpg
 
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