Thanks for your time and efforts to keep us entertained on a Sunday morning Totally enjoyed watching the results of the 1k and the bumper nightmare Just shows how each part effects the next
Ever since you commented on a product called Elbow grease ,gave it a try £1 a bottle bloody brilliant stuff had a mark on a light boot liner Lexus it shifted it was great and easy to use Cheers
I don’t really impose on them as the son who parks next to me goes to work early and doesn’t get back to around 4.30. I don’t make that much noise either.
On American car repair videos, they seem to use a product that is called some kind of Adhesion promotor before spraying plastic bumpers. They say it prevents the paint from peeling and cracking from the bumper.
Also, with the bottom bumper bar, did you try loosening off the passenger side and droping it down to where it obviously was before? I know the brain thinks to move the bar up to close the gap, but if you move the bar down then it should slide further into the bumper recess and allow the back of the bumper to rise.🤔
This has reminded me I still need to order a bottom bar as mine hasn’t got a towing eye hole in it 🙈 got bigger problems with an unidentified noise the car is making at the moment 😬
@@Love500 I asked the mechanic to turn it round and he said he can’t as it only goes on one way so I’m presuming someone has previously replaced it with the incorrect one after a bump. I’ll definitely be getting some of that 1K you used as I need to sort out the lacquer on my roof, someone painted it gold and all the lacquer is flaking off now 🤦🏼♀️
Off topic have you had chech drls when you turn on headlights. Drls working fine, I can't remember seeing it in back catalog. Keep up the good work, love channel.
It just shows you that it is all engineered to fit with no room to spare. Definitely a thing to check in future projects that are a bit of a challenge. 👍👍
Absolutely. I and others have had such problems with those bumper to wing gaps and been scratching our heads and on several occasions just had to admit defeat. Lesson learned, that it could just be that so I'll be mindful of that in future.
Often the description for things like plastic bumpers say it comes pre-primed so not sure if plastic primer is entirely needed. Will be interested to know how that clearcoat dries. Tried a rattle can 2k clearcoat that didn't need an activator and it took weeks to dry properly (during this summer). Dry to the touch but if you handled it would leave finger prints in the surface.
It's a perfect finish. No orange peel, nothing. Really is good Those bumpers that you see advertised on eBay and elsewhere are just bear black plastic despite them being described as primed. They really aren't.
@@Love500 I can't recall ever seeing a 500 with black (unpainted) bumpers, although have to admit I'm not a 500 anorak like you are Lol. If they all need painting body colour it seems pointless selling them in bare plastic. Normally choice of primed or bare plastic finish bumpers available at suppliers. Most plastic primer aerosols are so thin it's impossible to spray an even coat without it running all over place, so best get ready primed if intending to paint bumpers. By the way, congratulations on hitting 6K subscribers 👍
@@SalvageMasterEssex I had the running problem when I used a white plastic primer so I stopped using it. Thought it was my inexperience, maybe not. I’ll be more careful with this grey one.
That's a factory weld, those are not the best welds. It's something you don't see so are a bit rough and hidden when painted but thats what they are like. It must have been in something previous and they managed to get it to fit. Difficult to say what it was like previously seeing as there wasn't even a bumper on it. There was no way it was going to fit properly.
You say it yourself that you waffle on, so stop waffling on about the paint and the lacquer, I would of thought you would of changed the front crash bar anyway as it’s damaged. Great video and content 👍
There was no need to change the bottom bar with what looked like just the top and bottom lips bent over, on the side where there had been no impact so no, no need to at all until I found it, it was bent. Great video and content, apart from the waffle then.
Thanks for your time and efforts to keep us entertained on a Sunday morning
Totally enjoyed watching the results of the 1k and the bumper nightmare
Just shows how each part effects the next
#Stereo. Swap the red and yellow wires over on the wiring harness. The bullet connectors are on those wires for that reason.👍
There was more to it than that. I am aware of that needing to be done sometimes but as the last one was plug and play I expected this one to be too.
Ever since you commented on a product called Elbow grease ,gave it a try £1 a bottle bloody brilliant stuff had a mark on a light boot liner Lexus it shifted it was great and easy to use Cheers
@@michael-s8h1m I’ve bought hundreds of bottles of it. I should be on commission. Fantastic stuff.
Well done on getting to the bottom of that bumper fit issue, bit of a Nucking Fightmare was that
You must have good neighbours mate all that work on a shared drive
I don’t really impose on them as the son who parks next to me goes to work early and doesn’t get back to around 4.30. I don’t make that much noise either.
On American car repair videos, they seem to use a product that is called some kind of Adhesion promotor before spraying plastic bumpers. They say it prevents the paint from peeling and cracking from the bumper.
Also, with the bottom bumper bar, did you try loosening off the passenger side and droping it down to where it obviously was before? I know the brain thinks to move the bar up to close the gap, but if you move the bar down then it should slide further into the bumper recess and allow the back of the bumper to rise.🤔
No. Once I got it off I could see the deformity. I’m not going to bin it. I think I can repair it for future use.
This has reminded me I still need to order a bottom bar as mine hasn’t got a towing eye hole in it 🙈 got bigger problems with an unidentified noise the car is making at the moment 😬
I wonder if you’d bar is on the wrong way round? The hole is only one side.
@@Love500 I asked the mechanic to turn it round and he said he can’t as it only goes on one way so I’m presuming someone has previously replaced it with the incorrect one after a bump. I’ll definitely be getting some of that 1K you used as I need to sort out the lacquer on my roof, someone painted it gold and all the lacquer is flaking off now 🤦🏼♀️
Off topic have you had chech drls when you turn on headlights. Drls working fine, I can't remember seeing it in back catalog. Keep up the good work, love channel.
Yes recently actually. I was scratching my head it was actually a bad connection on the nearside brake light plug.
Paul, please wear a mask when painting!
I know, I keep forgetting.
It just shows you that it is all engineered to fit with no room to spare. Definitely a thing to check in future projects that are a bit of a challenge. 👍👍
Absolutely. I and others have had such problems with those bumper to wing gaps and been scratching our heads and on several occasions just had to admit defeat. Lesson learned, that it could just be that so I'll be mindful of that in future.
Often the description for things like plastic bumpers say it comes pre-primed so not sure if plastic primer is entirely needed. Will be interested to know how that clearcoat dries. Tried a rattle can 2k clearcoat that didn't need an activator and it took weeks to dry properly (during this summer). Dry to the touch but if you handled it would leave finger prints in the surface.
It's a perfect finish. No orange peel, nothing. Really is good Those bumpers that you see advertised on eBay and elsewhere are just bear black plastic despite them being described as primed. They really aren't.
@@Love500 I can't recall ever seeing a 500 with black (unpainted) bumpers, although have to admit I'm not a 500 anorak like you are Lol. If they all need painting body colour it seems pointless selling them in bare plastic. Normally choice of primed or bare plastic finish bumpers available at suppliers. Most plastic primer aerosols are so thin it's impossible to spray an even coat without it running all over place, so best get ready primed if intending to paint bumpers. By the way, congratulations on hitting 6K subscribers 👍
@@SalvageMasterEssex I had the running problem when I used a white plastic primer so I stopped using it. Thought it was my inexperience, maybe not. I’ll be more careful with this grey one.
@@Love500 If you suffer with runs during painting, I've heard Imodium helps a lot 🤣🤣
I've got the same problem with my white one around the drivers side gap. Think it looks worse with white ones.
No excuses mate, a gap is a gap whatever colour it is 😀
@@SalvageMasterEssex harsh but true 😀
@@Love500 👍😄
Has that bottom bar been bodged up in the past? At 16.02 them welds on it don't look factory
That's a factory weld, those are not the best welds. It's something you don't see so are a bit rough and hidden when painted but thats what they are like. It must have been in something previous and they managed to get it to fit. Difficult to say what it was like previously seeing as there wasn't even a bumper on it. There was no way it was going to fit properly.
You say it yourself that you waffle on, so stop waffling on about the paint and the lacquer, I would of thought you would of changed the front crash bar anyway as it’s damaged.
Great video and content 👍
There was no need to change the bottom bar with what looked like just the top and bottom lips bent over, on the side where there had been no impact so no, no need to at all until I found it, it was bent. Great video and content, apart from the waffle then.
Paint job came out well , I never use 2k lacquer on base coat always 1k as sometimes it reacts and a pro told me never use it too