Painting the Front Bumper

The front bumper had received a lot of abuse.  I decided to get a cheap paint gun from Amazon and some paint off the internet and give it a try.  

I removed the entire bumper cover from the car.  There were gouges in the bumper and many rock chips.  I used Bondo filler for bumper covers and filled in the gouges.  Then I used Rustoleum filler primer in a spray can.  After several weekends of priming and wet sanding I started with the base coat.  Immediately I started getting fish eye in the paint.



So I sanded it down again.  A coworker gave me some paint prep chemicals.  So before my next attempt I wiped the bumper down with these chemicals.

I painted in my driveway and did 3 coats of paint and 2 coats of clear.  I got orange peel in the clearcoat, but I was able to sand that out.

In the picture below I just sat the bumper on the front of the car to see what it looked like.  The new paint has more blue in it.



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