wilkinda

Well, I just picked up the car from having the strips put on (3M vinyl). I think the color combo of the Windveil Blue with Autumn Gold looks AWESOME!!

now for the bad news.... I found out that my car, which i bought used with 26K miles on it, does not have the factory bumper on it and is an aftermarket that was never properly prepped for paint..... so, when the installer put the stripes on the fron bumper and then tried to pull it back off to reposition it.. THE PAINT CAME OFF ON THE STRIPE!! he won't finish the bumper until i either get it stripped and repainted PROPERLY or get a factory take-off. He isn't gonna charge any additional...he just doesn't want his reputation tarnished by someone seeing shotty work. So what I have is fron lower back bumper to front of the hood completed but the fron bumper is not....

Here is what I have so far.....



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wilkinda

Here is my screwed up bumper that sticks to the tape!!! [:@]

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mygt500

Can't they just extend the front bumper stripes all the way down to cover up that? Would look better IMO....car looks great with the gold stripes though overall!

wilkinda

The deaker has the car in the body shop right now. They removing the bumper cover, stripping it, applying adhesion promoter for primer to adhere, priming, painting, clear-coating. After some 3 to 4 days cure time the stripes will be re-done on front bumper all the way down as they were supposed to be before the paint issue was discovered.

I'll add pics when it's done!

okbfd

What a bummer about the bumper, but, it's going to be great when it's finished!