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Originally Posted by powers1
Weird ,Bmw saying that!Do you mean BMW USA or a BMW dealer?
I say this because its was quite common for Bmw dealers to fit "M" bumpers to non-M models and here they would obviously had to paint the sensors.Also how could Bmw dealers repair crashed bumpers with pdc,if they cant paint the sensors?For example ,on an E39 rear M-bumper all sensors come in black from the factory but the middle ones are always colour coded as per Bmw!
As you long as a paintshop uses the correct primers and masks off the pdc properly ,you will never have a problem.
Maybe its country policy,but in the UK Bmw have no say in this matter.  |
Whenever we had to replace PDC sensors, it was because they were damaged. BMW than sold us a color coded sensors and that was it. Yeah I can see how you can just paint them. But since they are damaged to begin with, we just ordered new ones.
What I would hate to see is somebody drop good money on a sensor, get them painted and have them stop working. At that point they are screwed. Good to know people have success painting them, especially when retofitting or painting textured bumpers, which all have the black sensors.