| kjando |
Anyone out there,
I need your advice. I have a 2002 silver MDX. The other day, I went to Home Depot and bought some shelves. One of the shelves weighed about 150 lbs. I had an attendant load it into the back. Unfortunately, he slid it on the rear bumper as he loaded it. I would have done that also given its weight. When I got home there was a small gough in the rear bumper. I want to touch it up but before I do, is there something that I can use as a filler? If I dont fill it up, even after touch-up, it will be noticable. How about something like bondo (sp?) which I can apply, then sand, before using a touch-up paint?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Santa Barbara kid. |
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| EXCALIBUR |
kjando,
It sounds like with the amount of damage you have, you should just take your MDX to a good auto body shop and have it repaired properly. A DIY touch-up job might end up looking worse than the original damage. Good luck |
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| TheWorm |
| Hard to envision the extent of damage without a pic. Can you post one? A couple of us have built up chips/nicks(similar circumstances - Home Depot/loading) in the rear bumper w/touchup paint, then polished. Good enough IMO. |
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| Tom-TX |
First of all the paint on that rear bumper is so thin if the gouge is only in the paint there shouldn’t be much of a problem. If the gouge went into the bumper itself, then you need more than my advice.
I too have touched up the rear bumper with the standard Acura touch up paint. I filled in the gouge with excess paint (multiple coats) and then used a product called Langka (check out www.langka.com ) to remove the excess and get it down to the same level as surrounding paint. I got the info from forums here so do a search on Langka. Sorry I am still trying to figure out how to insert the links.
On my first attempt, didn’t remove enough.
Second attempt, removed all the paint.
Third attempt, removed all the paint.
Fourth attempt, get the picture?
My bottom line is that it was a paint in the a.. :bootyshak and I’m not sure it was worth the money to buy the Langka stuff. I must admit that since I have it now, I have continued to use it. |
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| Tom-TX |
I know everyone wants pictures. But after you see the quality of these you might cool your passion for them.
Original chip |
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| Tom-TX |
Blob after
Was it worth the effort :8: |
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| TheWorm |
quote:
Originally posted by Tom-TX
First of all the paint on that rear bumper is so thin if the gouge is only in the paint there shouldn’t be much of a problem. If the gouge went into the bumper itself, then you need more than my advice.
I too have touched up the rear bumper with the standard Acura touch up paint. I filled in the gouge with excess paint (multiple coats) and then used a product called Langka (check out www.langka.com ) to remove the excess and get it down to the same level as surrounding paint. I got the info from forums here so do a search on Langka. Sorry I am still trying to figure out how to insert the links.
On my first attempt, didn’t remove enough.
Second attempt, removed all the paint.
Third attempt, removed all the paint.
Fourth attempt, get the picture?
My bottom line is that it was a paint in the a.. :bootyshak and I’m not sure it was worth the money to buy the Langka stuff. I must admit that since I have it now, I have continued to use it.
Your experience w/Langka is the same as mine. It really doesn't work well w/Acura paint, unless you intend to remove all of it. Even waiting DAYS it pulls it out. So, it's useful for getting back to "square one" if you really screw up, but the "ten year old can do it, undetectable" is total BS.
IMO it's less time and effort to do the touchup, wetsand, then buff/polish w/3M, followed by your fave wax.
FWIW your bumper chip was similar in size/depth to ours, fixed "good 'nuf" in the same manner. If kjando's is significantly more gouged or scraped into the bumper itself, YMMV. |
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