Painting bumper with his own hands

Most often, even at the slightest collision a car suffers a bumper. It appears, at best, scratches, and at worst - a crack, break. Of course, you can always contact the service station, pay the money and forget the problem. Those who want to save money and make their own efforts to repair his car, offering master the technology of repair and painting of the bumper with his hands. So, choose a spacious dry dust-free room. We transfer back the damaged bumper, after carefully taken from the car. Pre-set enamel with the desired color. The first step bumper should be well cleaned, washed and dried. Then start sanding the surface. Matt must be linear (not circular) translational return movement. Next, proceed to putty. Draw a rubber spatula special polyester paste in a thin layer. Do it quickly and accurately. Effective performance fillers is limited to 5-10 minutes. Therefore you should not mix the excess amount. If the layer is thick, this would harm the quality of coverage. Do not forget to clean the spatula. In awkward locations using a spatula for your fingers. The next step will be sanding the surface of the bumper for painting. For this purpose melkoabrazivnuyu sandpaper grit 600. After grinding, remove the bumper from the remnants of small chips and dust. Washes it. The surface of the bumper should be heated to a temperature of dryer 50 degrees Celsius, carefully degreased several times with a solvent (white spirit is suitable) and well dried. Places that do not need to paint, stick with masking tape. After this, apply a bumper acrylic insulating primer, which in future will protect the plastic from moisture in the micropores. Dries the bumper. The most critical stage of repair bumpers is his painting. Paint on the warm surface must be applied evenly and accurately. If the coating is planned to make a single layer in the paint for the elasticity of the need to add a plasticizer. It is clear that the ink viscosity in this case is reduced. It is desirable to apply multiple layers, reducing their thickness. With a two-layer coating is applied after the base layer paint mixed with plasticizing agents. The base layer and each subsequent recommended to dry under natural conditions at a temperature less than 45 degrees Celsius. You should read the instructions that came with the paint. There should be painted with the temporal parameters of drying individual layers and the total drying time. Once the paint is deposited on a plastic bumper was drained, you need to carefully remove the protective tape. By the ending can be "polished" bumper. Stand a half-hour interval and causes the lacquer coating in 2 layers. Braves and again dried. At this time - finishing. If the bumper was damaged so that the chips were formed before the putty to the inside seam zaplavit conventional electric soldering iron, armiruya steplernymi butt straps. We clean the outside covering medium-grit and also propaivaem seam. After all is cool, grind again with the same grit. If left villi, they can be carefully smelt building a hairdryer. After this shpatlyuem damaged area, etc.