HB Body 222 Bumpersoft Car Body Filler Black Putty For Plastic Bumpers 250g With Hardener Excellent Adhesion Easy To Sand With P120-P240

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Maintaining clean surface areas is always important in collision repair; thoroughly clean the repair before any sanding steps. p>

• * Halfords and Halfords couriers deliver Monday to Saturday excluding bank holidays. This means the damage is usually cheaper and easier to fix than it would be on metal and chrome bumpers. Solvents can be absorbed into the plastic and release over time, causing bubbles in the repair area.

  Flexible plastic strips are often used in situations where a radius edge or gap needs to be covered and have much more flexibility than the rigid version.
  
  We get asked sometimes if our flat strips are foiled, with the colour just being on the surface of the product. Our rigid plastic strips are manufactured from external grade rigid PVC, which is also known as uPVC.

  Prepare the area around the crack using a 3M™ Cubitron™ II Clean Sanding Abrasive Disc 737U 180+ to avoid overheating and melting the plastic. If you’re not comfortable with DIY kits, get professional plastic bumper repairs for scuffs, scrapes and cracks with ChipsAway. In general, epoxies have good resistance to petrol and many of the chemicals and additives found within pump fuel however the ethanol in fuel is known to cause problems over time and so specialist tank lining resins (often novalac vinylester based) should be used instead.Halfords Autocentres Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 755309) and acts as a credit intermediary and not a lender, offering credit products provided by a limited number of finance providers, including Klarna Bank AB (publ)]. Using a 3M™ Cubitron™ II Clean Sanding Abrasive Disc 180+, sand the area to shape, ready for either an application of plastic filler or prepare directly for primer application. Once hardened, finish the sanding with wet fine grit sandpaper for a really smooth finish and wipe away any dust. Much less thick than a conventional filler (like body filler) this epoxy carbon fibre repair filler is more of a very thixotropic resin allowing it to easily be teased into cracks on a repair where its excellent bond strength and black pigmentation make it the perfect choice for repairs to light damage on carbon fibre parts. It will allow the adhesive to flow through the bumper and bond with itself for added strength – almost like creating a liquid rivet or bolt securing the replacement tab to the bumper.

  To finish the plastic bumper repair and prepare for the primer, the use of a plastic filler product is recommended. An elevated temperature post-cure is not required for parts made with epoxy resin however, post curing parts will improve the mechanical properties of the resin (and therefore the part) and so if you have the means to do it then it's certainly recommended. Regarding being dishwasher safe; a dishwasher is a very harsh environment (abrasive, high temperatures, caustic) and so I think it would be quite hard on any resin system.
  
  For a crack reaching the edge of the bumper panel, open the end to make a ’V’ shape and remove plastic residue with a sharp knife.

  To be more accurate the filler is a very dark grey, designed to be a match for the colour of carbon fibre which although also described as 'black' is also a very dark grey. Rather than replacing entire body panels - a process that’s both expensive and time consuming - filler enables you to repair damage to your vehicle’s bodywork in next to no time and at a fraction of the cost. Proper surface preparation will lead to the best results: Grinding the surface with a 3M™ Cubitron™ II Roloc™ Fibre Disc 80+ until a “fuzzy” surface is achieved, follwed by drilling several 3-6 mm holes at the base of the new tab near the edge of the bumper. It would be possible but our Black Epoxy Filler would not be our recommended method of bonding a fastener back into a carbon fibre frame.But if your bumper is cracked or split, the repair process becomes more complicated as you need to seal the split. Some products are better suited for large projects, while others can bond only certain kinds of plastic. It is possible for us to manufacture thin strips of plastic to other specifications but this would be custom production so is subject to much larger production runs, normally around 2000 metres. If your plastic bumper has scuffs and scratch damage, the repair can be carried out just on the front side of the bumper.