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Originally Posted by username11
Basically it is the school of thought of people who think that in order to respray a front bumper you must:
- Remove every part from the car including headlights and the engine
- Apply 500 miles of blue masking tape
- Respray the entire car in order to "blend" the inherently non-matching paint on the plastic bumper with the rest of the car
- Build own clean room in garage because commercial paint shops are "too dirty"
- While you're at it might as well "shave the door handles" and add a poorly fitting CSL-style trunk.
- Post numerous HDR pictures on the internet of the process after spending ten hours in Photoshop.
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What's ultramate? What's Pathways?
You know what's funny about car forums? People who have no idea about certain topic spouting off like they know something about it.
A proper respray in a shop that can properly match color without blending adjacent panel is incredibly expensive.
Why?
Because if you re-use the current panels, there is no way to strip the paint without also stripping the ecoat, which is not to be confused with the primer.
So, you start out with an imperfectly cleansed piece of metal, and you wonder how well the end result is going to look like.
Did I mention that most shops don't even positively and negatively charge the paint and the panel for better adhesion like they do in the factory?
Or that even a really good painter can't do factory thickness, so in this day of cheap and widely available paint meters, people are going to right away classify your car as a story car the second the paint meter hits the painted surface of your car.
And then, you have to break the paint on all the bolted parts on the hood, the fenders, which would mean that somehow you have to find someone good enough to redo that so you don't have obviously worked on bolted right under your hood or in the door hinge well.
As far as bumper resprays go, that's even worse. Most shops just sand down the existing paint a little, then paint it over with questionable flex additive mixture. And those little nicks and scratches? Oh, the bad ones get epoxied then sanded down, and what happens when someone lightly tapped you? Oh that's right, the whole epoxied area will crease up.
Properly refinish plastic bumpers is a big job, which is why most good shops don't bother refinishing the plastic bumpers, but get new ones.
So, all this intensive labor process adds up very quickly, especially when you are talking about removing a whole lot of panels and clean and process it as best as non factory can.
And in the end, your car is still a story car with respray that many people will simply pass over.