Painting Plastic

[channn]

Im looking to paint the plastic on my 03 avy front back bumper and the back and top side can anyone give me any advice cause everyone I take it to acts as if it cant be done without chipping.

 

[AVRider]

Best bet is to have it done professionally.  Several members here have. The key is in the prep. LOTS of sanding. Then adhesion promoter, flex agent and paint.

 

[Alaska_AV.]

what he said


rock hits paint , paint chips. So what! paint it again...... pealing and flakeing is the real prob



P.S.  Epoxie primer is the best adhesion promoter on cladding!

 

[AV4fun]

Yep.

 

[Dune Coon]

No advice other than have someone professional do it. But I can give you something to look at.

 

[sparky]

Mine was one of the very early ones to be painted. About 5 years now. Paint looks better than the factory paint... but all of the instructions provided above applied.

 

[MS03 2500]

Mine are done by me, it's lots of work and no guarantee.

I'm putting it on this weekend, and see if it last the winter in Michigan then I think it will be ok

It's lots of work

PS I have not wet sanded it yet

 

[sparky]

Mine has been through 5 Alberta winters, and it is my daily driver... so no matter what the weather is I'm out there

 

[MS03 2500]

Thanks it was allot of work, my concern was the expansion and contraction cracking the paint

 

[sparky]

In Calgary we have a weird weather pattern called a Chinook. It can go from -15 to +15 in less than 24 hours. In your degrees that would be about 60 to 0, or 0 to 60 whichever you prefer.
And we have winter days of more than -30... which is about the same in either system.... -40 is where they match up.

 

[Foundryman]

I'm right smack in the middle of painting mine. The key is to use the proper Plastic adhesive promoter. TPO is a hard plastic to get paint to stick to, but if you follow the right steps, as you can see from above, then it works fine. By the way I am in no way a professional painter, in fact this is the first vehicle I've ever painted. I must say it's quite a job, but doable. I started out sanding the plastic smooth. MISTAKE! It is a waste of time, a good filling primer saves a whole lot of work. Like I said I'm in the middle of painting mine right now all I have is the promoter, primer, and the sealer on. I must say I'm very confident in how it will look. I will post some pics when the whole job is finished. So if you want to save on some cash, (not to mention the satisfaction of doing it yourself) then i say try it yourself. So far I have about $600 wrapped up in the paint. If you don't have the equipment to spray, you might look into these guys....http://www.alsacorp.com/killercans.htm  They're expensive but they have some nice products. I'm using crystal fx, and killer chrome on my plastic.

 

[MS03 2500]

You are right about the filler primer, like you I just finish my upper cladding I put the saddle bags cover on then started the sail panels and realized that you can not remove the sail panel without breaking the clips , then I found out I could only find 6 locally

Project on hold

 

[Foundryman]

You are right about the filler primer, like you I just finish my upper cladding I put the saddle bags cover on then started the sail panels and realized that you can not remove the sail panel without breaking the clips , then I found out I could only find 6 locally

Project on hold

Have you checked out ebay for the clips
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/02-0...011QQitemZ320153411739QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

[MS03 2500]

Thanks

I'll take a look