Anybody powdercoated their bumpers on your GN?

[Blazer406]

Anybody ever had their bumpers powdercoated? I am having my car painted now.... thinking I might try and get the bumpers powdercoated..... I am told it will hold up nicely to the bugs that typically chip the paint away from bumpers...... my painted bumpers on my old '89 S10 Blazer lasted only a year or two before they started looking ragged.... 5 years later.... bumper looked like it was shot with birdshot......

I really don't want that....

 

[phillyturbosix]

I've heard the powder coating holds up much better as well. I'm going to have mine done next winter. I remember talking to someone that had it done and it came out nice and lasted long.

 

[captndave737]

powdercoat

I had mine powdercoated when I painted the car and it will definately hold up better than paint. I had my control arms powder coated as well and after 40k they still look new. Not so with the front bumper, it didn't hold up in the colision I had with a mustang!

They will have a little orange peel and can't be color sanded and buffed like paint.

 

[phillyturbosix]

I guess it depends on the coater. I've had a bunch of stuff powder coated for my engine bay over the winter. It all came out like liquid glass. No orange peel. He also had a bumper sitting there from a Ford that someone had powder coated black and it looked like black glass the powder coating on it. No orange peel at all. If they don't use good powders and don't have the correct oven's it won't come out right. The person with the GN who had the bumper coated also looked like black glass with no orange peel.

 

[Blazer406]

I guess I should also ask..... Would you powdercoat it gloss black? or semi-gloss? I was originally thinking gloss black... but now thing semi-gloss might look better....

Any thoughts?

Car will be painted basecoat/clearcoat ... and cut and buffed.... so it should look wet all the time..... :biggrin:

 

[QuickBuick87]

I've seen a couple GN's with powder coated bumpers. They look pretty good, but the shine is missing. The plus side though is they will last a looooong time!!

Ken B.

 

[Blazer406]

I have called this morning:

Conley's, Kirban's, Poston's, and BWeavy at G-Body parts.

Only one that tried it was BWeavy..... said he loved it... held up much better than painted ones.....get the high gloss black..... he was doing semi-gloss until he saw a garage kept extremely low mile original show car... and saw the bumpers were real high gloss black... not the semi-gloss... or semi-flat color you see on most high mileage driver GN's.....

Looks like I am might give it a try.....

 

[Blazer406]

I got the bumpers from the paintshop..... going to powdercoater Monday. Did you guys that had your bumpers powdercoated remove the inside bumper brace before going to get it coated? I was thinking if I didn't have to.... I wouldn't... but don't know if it has to be removed or not. I took all the rubber moldings off... even got the little pusher beams on the front bumper.....got thos little rubber pieces off....

FWIW ... after handling the bumpers with braces..... that is what is slowing my car down..... damn thing is freaking heavy.