silverrotor

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I'm putting on s5 Bumpers. Prior to sending them out to be painted, I wanted to remove all the old paint off. What would be the most effective way? Is their a product designed for my specific purpose?

Also,what material Is our Bumpers made out of?

DaveB

You can use a chemical stripper such as TalStrip, which is aircraft grade, but why do you want to strip the paint in the first place? The bumpers are made of a flexible plastic which will require good prep and a coat of flexible primer before paint. If the paint that is on them now isn't all cracked and flaking off, I would just wet sand with 240 wet or dry and respray with body color and leave the factory primer in place.

Good luck with the project.

db

silverrotor

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The Bumpers are currently Yellow...I need to paint them Silver. I want to remove all the paint off.

The last thing I want, If I'm thinking long term, Is to have a stone chip there that reveals a bright Yellow, surrounded In Silver.

banzaitoyota

The best way/PROPER way to do it is to send them to a bumper reconditioning shop. They specialize is stripping bumpers, fixing the cracks and applying the special urathane flexible primer

silverrotor

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Thanks but I want to do this project myself. Although, I'll keep this In mind If I send this out to be worked on.

totpkg

I would tend to agree with Banzi here .... I was told by an old body shop man to never strip down one of these type bumpers 'cause you will never get the proper primer on correctly, without bleed through or cracking ...
Best way is what Banzi said ...
but if you wish to do yourself ... then light wet sand starting with sand 220, 400, 800,1600 using in between
your flex added base color. no primer needed if you don't strip it down ....

silverrotor

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ra ra rotory

A friend of mine just had his s5 bumpers stripped with that chemical stripper.. the stuff worked great. but it warped the bumpers a little bit i think.. but some how they fixed it.. i think the bumpers reset themselfs over night

silverrotor

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He was using a chemical agent that wasn't compatible with our Bumpers. Hence, the warping. I'd like to know the make of the product fwiw.