Colour coding and smoothing bumpers

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It ain't to hard tbh mate just make sure when ya spray take ur time and do even strikes as ya paint and make sure ya have no runs in ur paint i think youtube has videos so ya can looks how to can spray. The filling is just a slow process but is easy enuff
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May have to get my stepdad to do this, he smoothed my vectra b's boot down and delocking and dewiper etc then sprayed it the same colour, looked much better!


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andy w wrote:Image
This is what mine looks like
There's not much of a swage line in the pre-facelift bumpers iirc? Does anyone have a pic of a facelift bumper done?
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Is facelift the one with removable v-grill..?

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Blackie_No1 wrote:
andy w wrote:Image
This is what mine looks like
There's not much of a swage line in the pre-facelift bumpers iirc? Does anyone have a pic of a facelift bumper done?
the pre 97 has a thicker swage line the the post 97
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stanc3w0rks wrote:Is facelift the one with removable v-grill..?

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yes mate it is most call it the post 97 bumper
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I thought they were all color coded but i have a black plastic one

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Nope just named pre and post :)
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But i just though all post 97 bumpers were painted

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Im sure some pre 97 were painted to
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I have pre and post and neither are painted

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Nope, only some were painted, mines a post 97 and not been painted.


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Think I will have to try this once I've done my wing mirrors


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Mine is post originally and is a gls but think it was an optional extra at the time cus seen gls with colour coded wing mirrors aswell but mine ain't got them
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Image
This is what the bumper in my car looked like originally
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