hey I want to paint my front bumper black, I have smoked headlightsm grill delete and mach 1 chin spoiler.. do you think it will look good. car is blue K9 color code and impossible paint to find in this city... im thinking a black bumper may look clean ... found other color match paint for GM that looks similar to my paint but don't want to waste the money if it doesnt
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joshjwc9
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What's wrong with purchasing a pre painted bumper in your Atlantic Blue color?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trk...lantic+blue+mustang+bumper&_sacat=0&_from=R40
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trk...lantic+blue+mustang+bumper&_sacat=0&_from=R40
The money I do have saved I would like to put towards performance parts not a bumper. id rather just clean mine up and make it look good myself. wish I could find color matching paint in this city but I thought black might look clean and make the car look mean but not sure. wish I could find some pics of what to expect
runningONfumes
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IMHO, a black bumper on a blue everything else would look pretty uncool. But its your car your oppinion and your likes.
haha thanks for the honesty.. just trying to picture it... I guess I should really look into finding color match paint
Bob Hughes
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Mattstang04
15 Year Member
A gloss black bumper would make it look like you replaced the bumper and did not paint it at all. My 0.02. Unless you tried to tie it together by extending some kind of large black graphic over the rest of the front end. I.E. flame shapes that extend over the hood and front bumpers.
hahaha... uggggh fml
Mattstang04
15 Year Member
well if your putting flames and huge graphics all over your car... and you think that's a good thing...
Mattstang04
15 Year Member
Didn't say it was a good thing but if you want to try to tie in a color on one piece of the car that is a completely different color than the rest of the car, you might want to extend it to some other panels. Some cars, especially hotrods, look great with contrasting colors in a flame job.
Hey, people do silly sh#t to cars all the time. Do you think painting just the bumper black on a blue car is really that great of an idea?
Hey, people do silly sh#t to cars all the time. Do you think painting just the bumper black on a blue car is really that great of an idea?
Mattstang04
15 Year Member
I need a full paint job myself. The drivers door had to be resprayed twice due to car break ins. My rear bumper is cracked and the front bumper is pocked marked from years of daily driving. When it becomes a garage queen, Ill give it a full spray and replace the bumpers. As long as I am driving in the hostile conditions of this city, she's gona stay a little on the rough side.
Sucks about the mismatch. You could put a LeBra on it too. I don't care for them but a lot of people put them on our years of Mustang.
Sucks about the mismatch. You could put a LeBra on it too. I don't care for them but a lot of people put them on our years of Mustang.
Sucks about the mismatch. You could put a LeBra on it too. I don't care for them but a lot of people put them on our years of Mustang.[/quote]
It had a bra on it when I bought it and when I took it off it looked terrible, full of rock chips so I attempted to fix it myself. and after sand paper, getting color match paint mixed up and trial and error it still doesn't look good and I wasted about 150 dollars hah
It had a bra on it when I bought it and when I took it off it looked terrible, full of rock chips so I attempted to fix it myself. and after sand paper, getting color match paint mixed up and trial and error it still doesn't look good and I wasted about 150 dollars hah
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Mattstang04
15 Year Member
uggh I sprayed clear on it and it made it look way to glossy and like
, would have looked better without the clear. I will try color sanding it once it cures a bit and if that doesn't work out im just leaving it alone until my build is complete then getting the whole car sprayed. That or buy a newbumper or a cobra bumper... not sure yet... I really like the look of the cobra bumper but with my luck the fitment wont be great.. also love the look of the mach 1 and I already have the chin spoiler brand new so may just go that route
Diode Dynamics
10 Year Member
If you take it up to an O'reilly's they can usually match the color for you and make the paint. At least the one I worked at could, and it was in a small town.
Don't paint just the front bumper black, if you're going to do that you might as well just buy a front bumper bra and leave it on forever
-Nick C.
Don't paint just the front bumper black, if you're going to do that you might as well just buy a front bumper bra and leave it on forever
-Nick C.
Diode Dynamics
10 Year Member
hahaha already past that point, got 100 dollars worth of color match paint that still doesn't match.. she looks good in the dark but once you turn the lights on damn .. good enough for now, going to focus the money elsewhere on the car
Well, you can always have it vinyl wrapped in a regular color someday lol
-Nick C.
