Has anyone had long term success after repairing their front waves that plague FD's? What type of compound filler did you use? My body shop insists that if they repaired this, it would crack behind the new paint in time. I then proposed using melted plastic as a filler.

The manager insist this would still crack. Has anyone had success repairing these waves? What were your or your shops means and methods?

Thanks!
Jake

 

even though bondo is not the preffered method to use on plastic, its sadly to say that many body shop would take this route because its faster, cheaper and easier to work with bondo....it will be somewhat a little flexible if used in a thin layer...but will still crack on hard impacts but even the one's without bondo the paint will still show stress crack marks or chipping from impact...

Time is money for a body shop.....we think "is this worthed to repair or replace" its lest time consuming for a body shop to just replace than repair..thats why they tend to use bondo as a cheap fix on bumpers.

 

The reason it's wavy is because of the heat from the car, melting plastic will make it more uneven... it's not a metal bumper...

 

my waves are symetrical so they almost look like they are suposed to be there like the curves in the roof. doesnt bother me at all

 

I'm talking about a melt a stick of plastic to fill in the low points of the waves. Not melting the bumper plastic.

Perhaps a FRP replica bumper would resist the waves better then ABS/Plastic.

 

I know what you're getting at, but the '93 bumpers all do that over age / and depending on climate (Heat) from the motor more / sooner or less... go '99 or Aftermarket, and you won't have those issues unless it's a cheap copy...

 

i doubt that filling it with plastic would actually help it... if anything i would just do an aftermarket bumper

 

yep sadly best thing you can do is just toss it and get a new one. after what you would pay to try to fix it a new bumper isnt that far of a reach. even a used one in better shape if you want to keep it oem.

 

you can buy a new oem 93 one