Front bumper mesh

[Marty.H]

The mesh on my front bumper is looking tacky due to the fact some of the black has come of. I have sorted the bonnet vent and door pillars today but as for the mesh in the bumper i have not got time to take the bumper of to do it so whats your thoughts on simply masking up and doing it i know it will also make the intercooler matt black so what you think

Cheers
Marty

 

[Jonny IX]

Get some matte black paint or whatever you want to use, spray some onto the lid and use a brush to fill it in as a stop gap until you can take off the bumper mate

 

[Marty.H]

Did not think of that i have the matt black :blush:


Goes of outside with paint brush in hand

 

[Nickygixer-k5]

You will also find it would be better to have the mesh powdercoated as you will be forever touching it in with paint, so powdercoat would be a lot more resilient to stone chips

 

[gooner8]

try the lid idea would of took years to do! Give up in the end! Will do it when bumper's next off!

 

[Jonny IX]

Did not think of that i have the matt black :blush:


Goes of outside with paint brush in hand

Spray onto brush in lid then on to area it needs mate

You will also find it would be better to have the mesh powdercoated as you will be forever touching it in with paint, so powdercoat would be a lot more resilient to stone chips

+1 , just a quick fix reccomendation

try the lid idea would of took years to do! Give up in the end! Will do it when bumper's next off!

Depends how bad the grille is mate, i suppose .

 

[Wayne'o]

get some before and after pics up matey, i'm thinking of this when i get back home from offshore

 

[GG205rob]

Took mine off and did it last weekend, makes a massive improvement, looks so much tidier.

 

[Marty.H]

The brush worked well i did not get any pics cheers jonny. The bonnet vent i had to mask the bonnet up went to undo the 10mm nuts and did not like the feeling of them last thing i wanted was them to snap. Also masked the doors up and re-painted the black pillars they had faded to grey and also re-painted the wiper arms look much better now

 

[Jonny IX]

The brush worked well i did not get any pics cheers jonny. The bonnet vent i had to mask the bonnet up went to undo the 10mm nuts and did not like the feeling of them last thing i wanted was them to snap. Also masked the doors up and re-painted the black pillars they had faded to grey and also re-painted the wiper arms look much better now

No probs matey you know where the woot is :whistling:

 

[Marty.H]

No probs matey you know where the woot is :whistling:

I wooted your first post

 

[SouthwestEvo]

Ive just got some black mesh evo, looks really tidy!!

 

[Jonny IX]

I wooted your first post

im doing this job soon myself mate

 

[B6lee]

i used satin black cos the finish is better than matt black

also i removed the bumper and took the mesh out so i could give it a good wire brushing before pant

now i got the car in september and i think i done the mesh in november, recon it lasted untill march and i had to do it again :hm: and guess what.... its now june and now needs doing again

this time i will be going for sand blating and powder coat

 

[whodat]

Just a quick question regarding mesh,im having a new intercooler fitted at spec R and am going to need it meshed as there isnt any at the mo.I have seen some advertised on ebay but it different to the rest on the car,would you think its going to look crap and think its worth trying to track down some the same as on the car? cheers keith

 

[Jonny IX]

im sure someone had some plastic coated mesh overthe road looked OEM too

 

[whodat]

Im having one of the smaller vents on my 5 bumper blanked off with aluminium and a cold air feed put in so do you think if i use the same mesh as i do on the intercooler it will look ok desicions desicions:hm:

 

[Jonny IX]

Yeah as long as it all looks uniform buddy !!

 

[B6lee]

bound to be some knackered evo 5 bumpers around that you could get the mesh from keith.

you tried mitsi ? they might supprise you

 

[whodat]

Only trouble time is tight with pete as having map done by bob rawle on the 25th and also trying to fit some gauges in aswell before then:hm::hm: