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I'm pretty sure everyone knows my car by now. I'm also pretty sure everyone knows my taste in modifying is... unique. I've started detailing the car with mirror gold paint. This sounds *really* tacky but actually it's working rather nicely. My badges are going black and gold rather than the stock black and chrome and some interior bits are going gold too. Under the bonnet I've made a start on gold detailing too and, when everything's cleaned and painted in black rather than blue it should look good. With the interior being black and gold mainly, the gold trim makes a fair bit of sense there too.    However, I've been pussy-footing around the bumpers. They're chrome but they've got a lot of patina and in a couple of spots have just started to surface rust. I like them as they are, but I wonder if they'd look better gold.  Rechroming is an option, but it's a bit pricey and at the minute there's more important things to spend money on. I don't want to paint them silver particularly, it doesn't fit with what I'm doing.   So I turn to you good people of RR to help me make up my mind because for once I'm not sure I trust my own judgement on this one. |
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Whats the worst that can happen? it's only metal. If it sucks, strip it off again. I reckon it will match the black and red though.
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I like the "distressed" look of old chrome like that - but can see that clean and painted might fit in better with the car. And Gold might work better than chrome.
I'd apply a light coat of paint with minimal prep to see if it works. If it does, take the paint off, smooth the bumpers as much as possible, etch prime, then paint. If it doesn't work, as Mr. Skoda says, the worst that happens is you have to strip the paint off again. It might take a couple of months for the rusty bits to come back if that's what you like, but it will happen.
And if it really doesn't work, you could always replace them. Are they Imp bumpers?
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They are indeed Imp bumpers. Repainting them gives me an opportunity to reposition the overriders properly too since they're all in the wrong place. I'll leave the rubbers black, might get them pinstriped for a bit of fun.
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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I think it depends on how good a finish you think you can get on them. I think they'd look really cool in gold, but it would need to be a nice shiny, deep finish. A dusty rattle-can job might not look as 'intentional', it may come across as just being a bodge to hide shonky chrome. I also think that repositioning the over-riders is a big plus point with painting them, the bumpers look cool but I agree that the over-riders aren't really in the right places.
You could look into alternative plating too, you can get Zinc plating done a lot cheaper than chrome, and with a cool gold kind of colour that I think could look good on your car, but I don't know if or how you'd have to strip the old chrome off for that.
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The paint I'm using is fantastic stuff, I don't know anything else like it for producing a good shiny finish, it can make things look properly plated if the surface is prepped correctly. There's a lot of sanding and prep work to get the bumpers up to scratch, but it's nothing I can't tackle and as long as I do my spraying indoors I should get a good finish with the gold if I go that route.
Of course, I'd love to get the bumpers gold plated or gold-coloured plated but when paint is less than £10 a tin and it should do the whole lot with some to spare, there's really no contest for a quick spruce up.
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RobinJI
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Ah, fair play, in that case I say go for it. With a few other details to tie them in it should look really good.
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Definitely. Now I've imagined gold bumpers, it's starting to look a bit bland with the chrome.
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" East bound and down, loaded up and truckin' "
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 Go on, do it.... |
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Well now the argument for is much stronger than the argument for against, I think I know which way my mind is going with this now. Why is it whenever I try to make something gold on Photoshop I can't and yet you've got it just about spot on there?
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^^ it's my day job  I did a rough lasso around the parts, made a new layer out of that and then used the hue/saturation controls to gold it up. There are other ways of course......... |
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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This has been conclusive, bumpers will be going gold. Thanks for the feedback and input  And if I don't like it when I've done it, I can paint them a different colour. |
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Copey
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first time i saw this thread i thought "hmmmm, no" for some reason didnt vote. after seein the shop am votin yes! honestly didnt think it would work, but it does!
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1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire GLSi with 2.0 Zetec
1985 Ford Capri 3.0 (was a 2.0 Laser originally)
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And if I don't like it when I've done it, I can paint them a different colour.
