Does a new bumper need part of wings respraying

tir21
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Took it to a premier bodyshop. They are saying it's necessary to spray wings otherwise might not blend in
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  • debtdebt
    debtdebt Posts: 949 Forumite
    Depends on the colour. They are right though.
  • tykesi
    tykesi Posts: 2,061 Forumite
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    What's a 'premier' body shop?
  • tir21
    tir21 Posts: 1,030 Forumite
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    tykesi wrote: »
    What's a 'premier' body shop?

    Expensive - but I'm not paying
  • Aylesbury_Duck
    Aylesbury_Duck Posts: 13,984 Forumite
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    tykesi wrote: »
    What's a 'premier' body shop?
    The absolute best. As in Premier Inn.
  • EdGasket
    EdGasket Posts: 3,503 Forumite
    edited 17 March 2017 at 4:06PM
    Depends how fussy you are I'd say. There probably would be some colour mismatch though between a newly painted bumper and the rest of the car with paint that has aged. The effect can be minimised by 'blending' as they refer to. They have to be good though or you might end up with some dodgy looking wings and wished you'd just stuck to 'paint the bumper only'.

    When I've had repairs done I can see the difference in colour but it doesn't bother me; I understand that new paint from a different batch is not going to match 10 year old paint on the car that has weathered. By the time you get some dirt on it, it all looks the same :)
  • neilmcl
    neilmcl Posts: 19,460 Forumite
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    What colour is it, metallic or solid?
  • facade
    facade Posts: 7,024 Forumite
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    They always tell you that they can't possibly match the colour properly, yet when you have a Japanese motorbike and you damage a candy metallic fairing panel, you just order one from the dealer in the correct colour, and fit it without any colour matching problems.
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • ilikewatch
    ilikewatch Posts: 1,072 Forumite
    I would generally buy a used bumper from a car the same age/colour so that (hopefully) the paint has aged/faded at the same rate as yours. This has worked well for me in the past, but I guess I may have been lucky as there's a lot of variables that could create a mis-match.
  • reeac
    reeac Posts: 1,430 Forumite
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    If you get the wings resprayed to match the new bumper then will they also match the adjacent doors? Best, I would have thought, to have the transition from respray to original paint occur where there is a change of orientation such as between bumper and wing rather than between wing and door.
  • [Deleted User]
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    Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »
    The absolute best. As in Premier Inn.

    Stick to the day job .... :p
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