#1: Body panel smoothing Author: DSWR, Location: SolihullPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:23 pm ---- Does anyone know a place that smooths body panels? I want my rear bumper smoothed, more exact, where the exhaust would normally show. I want it covered up completely.
#2: Re: Body panel smoothing Author: Addaz, Location: SuffolkPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:33 pm ---- Bewarned if you do find a place and they dont re-enforce it, it can crack quite easily mate
#3: Re: Body panel smoothing Author: robb, Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 4:07 pm ---- It will require plastic welding, basically the best thing would be a bit of smashed up old bumper, if you could get the peeve from the other side of the bumper any decent plastic welder will be able to weld it in place. Then fill to the correct shape.
Anyone talking about fibre fill or plating if from behind and filling over is talking an inferior job and it will eventually crack. We do a lot of plastic repairing of bumpers at work but doubt you'll want to come up to Cumbria.
If you can find a pas125 approved garage in your area it's a good sign of quantity in a body shop. You have to meet very high standards of work to keep approval
#4: Re: Body panel smoothing Author: DSWR, Location: SolihullPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 5:58 pm ----
Addaz wrote:
Bewarned if you do find a place and they dont re-enforce it, it can crack quite easily mate
Yeah, I'd use a doner bumper or another piece of plastic and get it plasi-welded on as reinforcement.. Then can just use filler or some other codge job;)
robb wrote:
It will require plastic welding, basically the best thing would be a bit of smashed up old bumper, if you could get the peeve from the other side of the bumper any decent plastic welder will be able to weld it in place. Then fill to the correct shape.
Anyone talking about fibre fill or plating if from behind and filling over is talking an inferior job and it will eventually crack. We do a lot of plastic repairing of bumpers at work but doubt you'll want to come up to Cumbria.
If you can find a pas125 approved garage in your area it's a good sign of quantity in a body shop. You have to meet very high standards of work to keep approval
I've had body panels smoothed before. Always went for plastic welding and then just a bit of filler to smooth it perfect. I never thought about getting a doner bumper and using the opposite side, very clever! Used to have a corsa, so smoothed bumpers, tailgate, roof, fuel fillar cap, the lot, lol:) Bloke I knew don't work any more so unable to do it.
I'll keep my eye out for a pas125 approved garage. So all I need is a standard bodyshop that's capable of welding? or does plastic welding require different tools and such?
#5: Re: Body panel smoothing Author: robb, Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:34 am ---- Yeah any decent bodyshop should have a plastic welder, most of them are just like fancy heat guns.
But yeah if they can fix them well they can modify them well. Only issue is a lot of the fancy spots have actually lost the skill of repairing cars and can only replace parts these days, but there will still be somewhere that will do it right for you
#6: Re: Body panel smoothing Author: DSWR, Location: SolihullPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:17 am ----
robb wrote:
Yeah any decent bodyshop should have a plastic welder, most of them are just like fancy heat guns.
But yeah if they can fix them well they can modify them well. Only issue is a lot of the fancy spots have actually lost the skill of repairing cars and can only replace parts these days, but there will still be somewhere that will do it right for you
Cheers, Pal. Appreciate the help:) will get on it next month. My exhaust has managed to burn a hole in my bumper... lol. Don't think the exhaust looks very good, massive hole and a small 3" wide exhaust poking out, so was thinking buy another EZR bumper and use my current one as a doner and completely hide the spot. Bit of hacksaw, shorten my exhaust to sit behind the bumper:)
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