Werd. Dropping it off tommorow to get repainted. They SAID that you dont primer a urethane bumper. PSHHH! ya rite. Well they are this time, lemme tell ya....Or they be some asss whoooopin alertage in dis mofo. tia



As you can see....I have already been scraping haha...damn houston roads n shit.

also they probably didnt use the right type of paint, i have always heard that you need a special paint that flexes with your bumper that might be why is peeling off

I don't think there is a special paint necessarily, but i do believe there is a certain additive they need to mix into the paint so it can flex some with the bumper. My guess is that they left this out. I think it is a rather expensive additive too...maybe why you got such a good price...

yeah there is a additive to the paint to make it flex thats why it costs more to paint

Yes there is flex additive you can use. But it is not absolutely necessary if you use good paint and prep it well. Both me and Ian have no flex additive in our urethane stock bumpers and they have been fine for over 6 months. Good luck with that. Do you know what brand of paint they used? Make sure they wet sand it too.

PPG paint, and no they dont wet sand...they said "wha" lol. these gais are idiots. they said they used the additive shit to make it flex, thats why theres no primer. at any rate, I smell a new painted front bumper every 6 months if i keep going with these gais. shheeesh!

that sucks, i would make sure they both prime AND use a flex agent in the paint.

flex additive isn't really needed, it just evaportates from the paint after a few weeks.

Primer is very important though. When a body shop shot my first OEM Mitsu bumper they didn't primer it so it started cracking after a week, but they re-shot it w/ primer and the paint never cracker or peeled again.

so how do i "make" them use primer then??? I want them to! I can't force them to, though, they could still be shady.

just say this to them "Did you guys use primer, cause i was talking to a couple friends last night and they looked at my bumper and they said the same thing happened to theirs when there bumper wasn't primered. But once it was primered, the paint stuck to the bumper."

Also give them Stillen phone # so they can call to get prep and paint instructions, even though they should know how to.

It will be cheaper for them to do it right the first (or second now) time then to re-do it several times. Good luck

i said what u said to say to them. (boy is that sentence confusing).

I dropped the mofo off at lunch and he said it'd be ready by tommrow same bat time, same bat channel, but imma pick it up after work tommrow and wait a day to put it on for safety side this time. thanks gais, and yesh i was hella pissed, still am since im rocking the stocker like bizzzatch. my front end has a big _|_ on it hahaha tia

i bet people who see your car everyday wonder why the hell you keep changing front ends

werd. been asked that all dayam day at work for the last week. sheeesh! heh, i set a record 18 minutes yesterday swapping em out again. I'm getting better at it.

you should tell me when youre going down to the shop to beat the crap out of em, i'll help you.