Any easy way to fix this?
 

Recently I got my car back from the body shop and they lost my left sidemarker. I put tape over the opening(dumb idea I know) until I could buy a replacement. Today when I went to install the sidemarker, I peeled off the tape and the paint ended up coming off with it.

Would there be any simple way to fix this by myself? If I have to, I'll take it to a body shop to get it professionally repaired but I really don't want to spend a lot for something this small.

http://i.imgur.com/l4TWhf3.jpg

They didn't use the proper prep for a raw plastic bumper. I'm assuming it was replaced either by them, or previously. This is really common. There are very particular procedures and materials that need to be used to guarantee proper adhesion on raw plastic parts

Or in other words, that shop is shady as fuck and I hope you didn't pay them.

Did that body shop work on the part of the car where the paint peeled off .. ??

If so, I'd take it back to them and ask them to fix it (make it right).


humfrz

They lost the marker and you bought a replacement? They screwed up the paint prep and you are going to pay for repairs?
Hold them responsible. If they will not make it good talk to your local Better Business Bureau. All of these issues are on them.

it all depends on what they charged him for, and if he went through his insurance and they saved his deductible.

They still lost a part of his car. No excuses that I can come up with let them off the hook.

to be honest most body shops will have the sidemarker fall off after they fix it, once you pull them they do not sit back in the bumper. Insurance companies will not pay you for new ones because you say they will fall out, you have to wait until they fall out to then charge them for the side markers. the smart move is to just break a tab off them if you're the shop.

It did not fall off. It was lost by the shop while repairs were being made.

Im with Tcoat on this. You puting tape over the hole or not. The tape should not peal up the paint. It was shoddy work done by them. Take it back or get your money back preferably and take it somewhere that knows what the fuck they are doing.

yea i misread that they lost it thats my bad

Yeah this was a new bumper that they painted. Colorwise the paint was good but I'm a bit disappointed the paint peeled off just from some tape

Yeah I was pretty annoyed. Especially when they tried telling me that the sidermarker wasn't on the car when it came in. I didn't feel like arguing so I just took the car and ordered a nice clear set.

i means the rest is gonna come off shortly that bumper is not sanded.

The repair was out of pocket but I'll be stopping by sometime this week to talk to them. They did a pretty shit job of aligning my rear bumper.

http://imgur.com/a/EKfsF

Yep, I agree ...... if tape will pull the paint off ...... sooner or later the rest of the paint will come off.

I'd suggest that you have them strip the paint off the bumper, prep it proper and repaint it.


humfrz

But he screwed himself sticking tape on there. The body shop can now say, well he shoulda came by and we'd put the light back in on us. Now they can say, he put tape on the paint and peeled it off, probably after sitting in the hot sun and this is what happend.

yea tape should not remove paint

No amount of hot sun should do that to a fresh coat of paint unless it was literally day after. Even then. Id just fight for my money back and take it somewhere else not deal with thee guys again if possible,

No dude, sun can melt tape onto your paint and make it super DUPER sticky and make it a friggen mess

But if I were him yea I'd choose another shop

I agree with the majority of the posters on the thread.

See if they'll fix it since THEY lost the side marker. :mad0260: You could even say while installing the side marker you had to replace the paint came off if you think they'll try to blame you for taping it.. Regardless, they did not do a good job and as a business should make it right.

To answer your question, I don't think is a very easy way to do this yourself w/o making it look worse. Not discrediting your body shop skills lol just think it'd be a pain to match. That's why shops remove and paint the whole bumper (at least they should :bonk: )

They didn't scuff the bumper, at all..

Any body shop that just throws paint on without prep is a moron body shop. You can't paint bare plastic like that and it looks like what they did

It can make it super duper sticky all it wants but if 3m double sided tape does not pull up paint then painters tape will deff not no matter how much sunlight it sees thats the point im making. But we both I think agree that this body shop was a bunch of morons and no way should be in business if this is the type of stuff the put out.

Don't know how I missed this before but "new bumper" my ass!
To the best of my knowledge new bumpers do not come with huge scrapes pre applied.
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/attac...1&d=1462233973

If the paint wasn't heat cured in their oven (costs to run the oven) they may risk it and let it dry naturally. Looks like there may not be any plastic primer or no flex additive in the paint. Either way they should guarantee their work. If they don't re do it ask the owner the name of his lawyer so your lawyer can contact his. If you paid by credit card contact them and cancel payment.

it looks like the paint job wasn't very good for tape to take it right off.

you can try to have someone spot painted than sand down once paint settles 100%. than gloss coat the whole bumper to make it less noticeable, but it's recommend by almost all bl paint shop to repaint the whole thing for a solid paint job

how to do shady business 101

Ok, so I didn't hallucinate the marks that suggest it's not a new bumper. OP I'm curious, how much did you pay for the full bumper paint job (I mean let's be honest if OP paid like 50-100$ then yeah it's no surprise it looks, feels and is complete shit

I used to work at a body shop back in my youth. I don't know about modern paint, but I do know that "back in the day" we would tell customers not to wash their car for at least a week to let the paint "cure".
We painted one guy's Corvette and he took it to a car wash the next day and blew all the new paint off. There were big sheets of red all over the carwash. Out of good faith we repainted the car but it was a really stupid thing to do.