Car Rear Bumper - Paint Peeling

dinofabio

Hi All

In a nut shell.

The paint on my car's rear plastic bumper is seriously peeling, literally flaking off (the rest of the car is fine!). It's a 2002 skoda octavia.

I've taken it to a 'proper' body repairers and I've been quoted £250; a 'back street' garage has quoted me £150. Both places have said all the paint from the bumper would have to be removed, primer applied, and two top coats applied.

My question is what has caused this? And what is to stop it happening again in the future after I've had the repair done?

I've never had this on a car before, and believe me, I've owned a few.

Hammyman

What has caused this is age and poor quality factory paint job. When you have it done again, it'll be done properly with paints that are a whole load better. There's not really a lot you can do to stop it and there's plenty of cars suffer from it. I'm sure if you put lacquer peeling into a search engine you'll get a whole raft of results.

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dinofabio wrote: »

Hi All

In a nut shell.

The paint on my car's rear plastic bumper is seriously peeling, literally flaking off (the rest of the car is fine!). It's a 2002 skoda octavia.

I've taken it to a 'proper' body repairers and I've been quoted £250; a 'back street' garage has quoted me £150. Both places have said all the paint from the bumper would have to be removed, primer applied, and two top coats applied.

My question is what has caused this? And what is to stop it happening again in the future after I've had the repair done?

I've never had this on a car before, and believe me, I've owned a few.

Probably the bumper has been repaired and resprayed without proper preparation at some time.


Any silicone treatments to the bumper, if not completely removed before respraying will cause a lack of adhesion of the paint to the bumper.

Gandalfthesecond

How much is a 2002 Skoda worth?

How bad is it, is not something you can live with? You know sods law states someone will clip it on a car park once you've had it painted.

LandyAndy

dinofabio wrote: »

Hi All

In a nut shell.

The paint on my car's rear plastic bumper is seriously peeling, literally flaking off (the rest of the car is fine!). It's a 2002 skoda octavia.

I've taken it to a 'proper' body repairers and I've been quoted £250; a 'back street' garage has quoted me £150. Both places have said all the paint from the bumper would have to be removed, primer applied, and two top coats applied.

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That is a fair quote. Probably worth doing if you are planning to sell but not if you intend to run it for a few more years.

As others have said either poor factory process or a substandard repair.

dinofabio

Reading the replies there's a chance of a re-ocurrence at a later date. I wouldn't want to spend over £200 and that to happen

So I wondered if I could tidy it up myself for a few quid? In the past when I had old cars I have done metal bodywork repairs and they didn't look to bad afterwards. But I've never done a paint job on plastic. Do I use the same primer and paint as I would for metal?

I'm not expecting to do a top-notch job, just improve it so it wouldn't look so much of an eyesore.

If I spend say £30 on paint and other materials and it looked even reasonable I would be happy.

Hammyman

dinofabio wrote: »

Reading the replies there's a chance of a re-ocurrence at a later date. I wouldn't want to spend over £200 and that to happen

So I wondered if I could tidy it up myself for a few quid? In the past when I had old cars I have done metal bodywork repairs and they didn't look to bad afterwards. But I've never done a paint job on plastic. Do I use the same primer and paint as I would for metal?

I'm not expecting to do a top-notch job, just improve it so it wouldn't look so much of an eyesore.

If I spend say £30 on paint and other materials and it looked even reasonable I would be happy.

You could sand it down then spray it with a few coats of primer, sand that smooth with 800 grade wet and dry then paint a colour coat over it. I think I'd be inclined to go for satin black because spray cans rarely match the colour of the original paint and with satin black, you don't need to do a colour sand and compound afterwards.

Option 2 thats likely to come out the best is get a bumper from a scrapyard the same colour as yours. Paying a garage to fit it should be no more than an hours labour.

Flyboy152

dinofabio wrote: »

Reading the replies there's a chance of a re-ocurrence at a later date. I wouldn't want to spend over £200 and that to happen

So I wondered if I could tidy it up myself for a few quid? In the past when I had old cars I have done metal bodywork repairs and they didn't look to bad afterwards. But I've never done a paint job on plastic. Do I use the same primer and paint as I would for metal?

I'm not expecting to do a top-notch job, just improve it so it wouldn't look so much of an eyesore.

If I spend say £30 on paint and other materials and it looked even reasonable I would be happy.

But not for quite a few years. Two hundred and fifty pounds sounds a bit excessive, I'd go for the one hundred and fifty.

Rossy.

I've got the same problem on my Laguna II

Rear o/s door laquer is peeling.

I got quoted £110 for the same repair as you