Wife scuffed the front bumper

[sprocket1200]

what year vehicle is it?? if older than 2006, it won't matter at all.

just take the keys and drive it yourself....

[TheGodfather]

I thought the plastic trim was unpainted black plastic to the core?

If this is the case, logically you should be able to sand/buff until the scuff marks are gone, and only clean plastic shows.

Obviously you do not want to sand so much that the hollow core of the plastic starts showing.

[BGM]

That's going to have to go to a body shop.

[thedweeb]

Originally Posted by TheGodfather

I thought the plastic trim was unpainted black plastic to the core?

If this is the case, logically you should be able to sand/buff until the scuff marks are gone, and only clean plastic shows.

Obviously you do not want to sand so much that the hollow core of the plastic starts showing.

I dont think it will be hollow anyway as the tooling involved to make the part would be too complicated and expensive to make. It will be a solid pannel injection moulded. It can be repaired by anyone who's got some attention to detail following my last post.

[318i318is328i645i745ix5]

Originally Posted by thedweeb

I take it its the black part below the painted area on the front bumper. If so it looks as if its been repaired before. Is the white stuff primmer ? if so it has been repaired as i think but haven't checked that its a black injected moulded pannel which should still be black even when scuffed.

Thanks Dweeb.

Well thats what surprised me....why would it be white.. Surely the point of having a black bumber as oppoed to a color coded one would be to be to allow it to have a few more knocks and scuffs without looking too bad.

If it was black all the way then i probably would have sanded it down and we would not even be discussing it....

So do you think its been repaired....? Thats a little worrying for me but it looks like a bloody good job if it has. How will i be ale to tell...?

[thedweeb]

Hi,
Firstly don't get worried about it being painted. It is easy to scrape these areas and is a better option than replacing the whole section.Trust me I've paint loads of these but not on an X5. If the white areas are primmer/filler then it has been painted because as mentioned before it should be black to the core.

[TheGodfather]

Are you sure the white paint is not the paint from the car you hit?

Sorry if this sounds blatantly obvious. Just making sure.