CraigWaterman11
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Okay guys I started and finished painting the GS front bumper yesterday. For the guys that might be confused about why GS/Facelift bumper is used it's because they are actually one and the same EXCEPT for the lower valance (spoiler or whatever you would like to call it by). I could not find the GS Valance with the gills/air ducts on the side so I bought this one from a forum member who did find a GS one and sold this to me. Sorry that there aren't a lot of photos of step to step process but it's for your entertainment when your digging through the forum any way. :thumbsup:
Here's the beginning product (above) a Red Mas. front bumper.....few dings and scratches I will fix but pretty good shape I think.
Here's one such mark, there were a few I had to attend to. This one is into the plastic.
I used a decal eraser wheel to remove the old oval two sided tape from where the Maserati logo was. This keeps you from messing the paint up below the two sided tape so your not trying to feather it out in an area that's very difficult.
I skipped a few steps to get you here. I didn't think going through the mundane steps of body glaze; blocking; adhesion promoter was necessary for pics, so here is the base coat applied afterwards (Below)
(Below) A pic of the 2nd stage or Pearl/tint coat of the three stage paint I have on the Mas. If you guys remember the Mas. was custom painted about two years ago with a three stage paint instead of the two stage that was on it. The base coat is basically the same but the tint/pearl coat effectively changed the overall color:
Here's the finished product, albeit still needing cut and buff but.......I took these in the morning after I set them out in the sun....I took photos of inside the light housings and inside the bumper /valance itself. Something common when doing body work is that attention isn't paid to inside the bumper covers or areas that will not be seen on the car unless completely disassembled. The bumper cover was red, and the lower valance was actually silver. I used adhesion promoter not only on the outside but everywhere on the bumper/valance so it would never be known it was a different color unless it's sanded completely down to see that was the original base colors:
Here's the beginning product (above) a Red Mas. front bumper.....few dings and scratches I will fix but pretty good shape I think.
Here's one such mark, there were a few I had to attend to. This one is into the plastic.
I used a decal eraser wheel to remove the old oval two sided tape from where the Maserati logo was. This keeps you from messing the paint up below the two sided tape so your not trying to feather it out in an area that's very difficult.
I skipped a few steps to get you here. I didn't think going through the mundane steps of body glaze; blocking; adhesion promoter was necessary for pics, so here is the base coat applied afterwards (Below)
(Below) A pic of the 2nd stage or Pearl/tint coat of the three stage paint I have on the Mas. If you guys remember the Mas. was custom painted about two years ago with a three stage paint instead of the two stage that was on it. The base coat is basically the same but the tint/pearl coat effectively changed the overall color:
Here's the finished product, albeit still needing cut and buff but.......I took these in the morning after I set them out in the sun....I took photos of inside the light housings and inside the bumper /valance itself. Something common when doing body work is that attention isn't paid to inside the bumper covers or areas that will not be seen on the car unless completely disassembled. The bumper cover was red, and the lower valance was actually silver. I used adhesion promoter not only on the outside but everywhere on the bumper/valance so it would never be known it was a different color unless it's sanded completely down to see that was the original base colors:
