Smoothed front bumper

[Tonk]

Bargain of the century lol wer the boot sale ones in good nick yeah ?

 

[vngtx]

thread was a little nackered on the top threads but i cleaned them all up. came off a mk2 golf.

 

[suj]

don't listen to vince, he had to buy new rears, as he brought mk2 golf coilies lol

i paid the same as you, hottuning ones? they are awesome, same as TA Technix (made at same factory)

doesn't matter if it is not a GTI etc, they all look good

 

[vngtx]

don't listen to vince, he had to buy new rears, as he brought mk2 golf coilies lol

but i sold the golf rear ones for 40 quid

 

[Tonk]

Lol i thinkso man.. yeah there lovely cars wen styled.. maybe one day ill drop a 2.0 gti in it haha would that be a hard job?

 

[kyle18uk]

I wouldn't just fibre glass it, if your going low on coilovers one wrong bump on a speedbump and it'll all crack, getting it plastic welded at a bodyshop would be stronger.

 

[kyle18uk]

Also... If your gonna smooth the number plate recess I wouldn't just go mounting it in another place! Just throw it in the bin or put it in your front window.

 

[Tonk]

aye av herd abt tht plastic welding using a soildering iron?

 

[Tonk]

Also... If your gonna smooth the number plate recess I wouldn't just go mounting it in another place! Just throw it in the bin or put it in your front window.

good thinkin lolol wont i get a fine tho ?

 

[kyle18uk]

Could do that. Much much stronger, I've plastic welded the side skirt jacking point flaps smooth and retextured them.

I was gonna do the front bumper to, was going to cut out the recess and just move it forward and weld it on, sand it down and smooth it with bumper filler so it's more flexible.

 

[kyle18uk]

good thinkin lolol wont i get a fine tho ?

Probably! Lol

Could mount it in the middle but lower down near the splitter

 

[suj]

is plastic welding hard kyle? i heard about it, it's giving me idea's

also i wouldn't put plate in the window, it looks w@nk to me, and police do not like it (from all my mates who get stopped)

why not just leave the plate where it is, it doesn't look too bad IMO

 

[kyle18uk]

Not hard at all really, i just got some more abs plastic and cut it into thin strips, then just pressed down on the joins with a soldering iron to make a deep groove then filled it in with melted plastic. You have to make sure the join melts all the way through tho or it's weak.

Bumper filler is mint to, really flexible compared to bodyfiller.

 

[Tonk]

i like the sound of down below wer it used to be it mite look nice ther

 

[Tonk]

Do any of you guys know the steps to go through with flushing a bumper for example.. sand down - fill - prime they kinda steps?

 

[kyle18uk]

This is how I would do it..

Cut out the recess, sand the surrounding edges to remove the paint, plastic weld, sand down smoothish, put thin layers of bumper filler on, sand down smooth using a large sanding block, primer, sand, primer again, sand! Then paint!

 

[suj]

thanks kyle, will have to try it on my idea

 

[kyle18uk]

No worries, just take your time, also after you have plastic welded it leave it to cool then flex it a little to see if it cracks so you can redo those areas.

 

[Tonk]

Thanks al get started on this tomoro

 

[jenk]

Plastic welding is the way to roll as said, you can use old cable ties as the solder.

Think I would cut the face out that the plate is mounted to, bring it forward flush with bumper and plastic weld into place. Bit of flexible filler stuff for shape and away you go. The less filler type material the better.