What filler needed for bumpers?

[kerry-w]

After giving the car a good clean im popping into town to pick up more rattle cans and laquer etc, but im wanting to smooth the one stripe on the bumpers and also to smooth the fog lights into the bumper.

What kind of filler would I need to do this? Will it be available at halfords?

Thanks

 

[Heez]

Fibreglass. Filler will crack and you don't want that!

 

[kerry-w]

Fibreglass. Filler will crack and you don't want that!

Hmm, where can I get some of this from, and wont it be a pain to apply etc?

 

[Heez]

Halfrauds still sell the stuff and I haven't personally done anything like it. It will be more work but better in the long run!

 

[kerry-w]

Halfrauds still sell the stuff and I haven't personally done anything like it. It will be more work but better in the long run!

Ill take a look there later on then did look on the site and just found some along with some plastic bumper filler paste type stuff, I wouldnt have thought the filler would crack very easily through on the rear bumper, and with primer, paint and laquer over the top of it.

 

[Gally]

FPMSL!

You do not want fibreglass! Stay well away from that stuff.

Plastic filler is what you want, it's more flexable than normal filler and by god a lot better than freeking fibreglass. You'll be fine aslong as you use it correctly. Plastic repairs are in a different league to body repair, the prep need to be spot on with the primers for the filler and the rpimers for the paint or it just won't work.

That's why people spend years learning the job. If you could learn it in 5 minutes it wouldn't be much of a trade now would it.

 

[Heez]

FPMSL!

You do not want fibreglass! Stay well away from that stuff.

Plastic filler is what you want, it's more flexable than normal filler and by god a lot better than freeking fibreglass. You'll be fine aslong as you use it correctly. Plastic repairs are in a different league to body repair, the prep need to be spot on with the primers for the filler and the rpimers for the paint or it just won't work.

That's why people spend years learning the job. If you could learn it in 5 minutes it wouldn't be much of a trade now would it.

My bad.