Have you ever went into the grocery store picking up your eggs and milk?
Everything is going just fine until you walk out into the parking lot and notice somebody
has hit your car.
Well today is your lucky day!
We're gonna show you how to fix your fiberglass or your plastic bumper!
So you come out of the grocery store and this is what you're left with!
A hole in your bumper.
This bumper today that we are working with is fiberglass but you can also prep plastic
pretty much the same way.
What I'm saying is that this is not a lost cause.
We are going to be able to repair this and not have to replace this whole bumper cover.
A few things you're going to need to fix your spot up there.
Is, we got a little right angle 3 inch grinder, (like a 36 grit pad).
Definitely some gloves cause that's itchy!
We don't need to be breathing that stuff in so a dust mask.
And definitely last but not least safety glasses.
So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna grind the back, grind the front, blow
it off and get this thing ready for fiberglass!
Everything you put on, you want it to adhere.
If you just put it right over the existing material, its not gonna take!
So always rough everything up.
We got our work area grinded down, so now we're gonna take a little air and blow it
off!
Now what we're gonna do is get us some cloth, cut it down, mix us up some resin and start
repairing our hole!
This is the cloth which is a lot more workable and friendlier to use.
Cut it to whatever you feel fit for your project or your job.
This is more like a backing.
Or like I said not much strength.
This is called matting.
Which you can see is a lot heavier with a lot more fibers in it.
This here is for strength and also (just like the cloth) in big quantities.
Cut it down to size of your repair.
This is our resin.
Gonna add a little hardener.
You put this in to help set the resin up or else it will never dry if you don't put that
in.
Cheap brush and then a paint stick because all these will go in the garbage.
For sure ; rubber disposable gloves, because you do not want this resin on your skin.
Its a bear to get off!
Always shake your resin up a little bit, give it a good little shake.
I only got these two pieces so I'm just gonna guess I'm not gonna act like a scientist!
We're gonna just throw a little bit in here.
Treat this like Bondo.
Its kinda cool out, so add a little squeeze or two to your resin.
We got our couple pieces of cloth which we're gonna soak with everything here.
To apply onto the back of the bumper for our repair.
I like to saturate the back area with the resin.
It kinda helps hold the cloth in place.
Don't be stingy with it neither!
Be careful, like I said do not get this on your skin!
Just make sure you soak this real good!
You soak the cloth all the way through.
That looks great to me!
So now is the fun part!
Time to get dirty!
This is the only way of doing this!
Just do a little dabbing.
Just check to make sure there's no air pockets in between the panel and your piece of cloth.
And just keep that piece wet.
So we're gonna let our fiberglass dry.
But while we're on the subject of bumpers, plastic bumpers, the prep is kinda the same.
But the other options are: plastic fillers, you have plastic welders, (which will actually
weld the seam back together).
Hot water; you can sometimes get dents out if you can get behind it.
Just don't be discouraged because most of the time you can fix and not have to replace
it.
So you will save time and get a little hands on!
So our fiberglass repair is drying.
We got a pretty good void, so we're gonna use this "kitty hair" which has fibers that
help lock this material together.
And also this is good to use because it is water resistant.
We got this good and mixed up, so lets go apply this to our bumper!
Get it as smooth as you can because that's less sanding!
So we got us a good coat of our fiberglass filler on here.
So we're gonna let it set up.
With body filler you really have to be careful.
Try not to get it on your skin.
Sometimes it's accidental and it does happen.
But you will know!
Because the chemical reaction of this stuff is heat and sometimes it gets pretty warm,
so be extremely careful!
So we got us a piece of 80 DA sand paper.
What w'ere gonna do is knock down some of the imperfections on our fiberglass for our
next application.
Right here we're still a little low.
So what we're gonna do, for sure, is we're gonna blow this off.
If you don't blow none of this stuff off, it's a waste of time because you're gonna
have dust in between your next application.
Which is not going to let it adhere properly.
This is bondo (which is not water resistant like our fiberglass is.
Fiberglass is real porous so it will have some big pin holes in it.
So this will fill any (like the low spot) any pinholes.
So this is gonna be our next application.
A little tip on DA'ing, when you're on the surface keep the DA flat as possible.
You stand it on it's edge, you're gonna make more work and pretty much waste your time
fixing your repair.
So remember flat!
Then when you're done DA'ing, (or you think you're done) palm of your hand, not your finger
tips.
And rub over there and see if you can feel any low spots and high spots.
We've switched over to 180 DA grit.
I wanna feather this out a little bit.
There's a little bit of an edge because all of the painting that's been done has kind
of built up.
So I'm gonna sand past it.
So when I wipe my final wipe of glaze , it'll adhere to the panel.
The little layers like in a tree, they kind of spread out more.
Now its nice and smooth so when I wipe my glaze over it, you won'e even be able to tell
they were even there!
This is a final glaze and what this will do is the high spots and low spots, (any imperfections
in the panel) this will fill in for our primer coat.
Wipe this all the way out here.
That's why I sanded past our body work.
You leave that little imperfection your gonna have to sand that all the way down.
Which may require you to have to re skim this whole area again.
So get it out, while the gettin's good!
So hopefully this will be our final sand.
Then hopefully we can go behind, blow it off and put some primer on it!
We're gonna use a little bit of this aerosol high build primer.
Usually a couple coats of this and it'll fill in any of your little imperfections like sanding
marks or anything.
We got our spot primer'ed.
Can't even tell there was even a hole here!
And the rest of the machine will get prepped for paint but if there's anything we missed
or any questions, please share them with the comments down below.
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Happy Fiberglassing!
I was doing a lot of fiberglass work.
When I was leaning, I was leaning into my, that resin, that fiberglass resin.
So I'm sitting there messing around.
And that's the same way that fiberglass resin does the same.
Hot!
And I mean I started!
I bolted to the bathroom!
When it starts setting up, you feel the heat!
So we got a couple pieces of cloth cut *spitting and laughing.
If you're testosterone is low, do fiberglass work and it'll build it right back up!
Hey you gotta watch what you say around here!
Hold on I gotta collect myself because you really are getting on my nerves.
Happy place!
OK!
I don't even like having these gloves on but it is what it is!
All the tools we're gonna use, we're fixing to get a cup, a brush, we've used scissors.
You suck at filming!
I'm just saying there's no "do overs".
I'm just saying this is, hey!
Like the turtle man says, this is "Live Action!"
Hold on Gus, you are, you're annoying me already!
I just wanna know how to stand though.
I mean that's my problem.
I wanna be comfy!
You gotta watch what you do Gus cause he's sneaky!
Hey!
He'll be like, "Hey dad this the kind of people we got working here.
Oh I know he will!
I'm a prophet so, you don't, I would really appreciate it if you change your tone.
I'm sorry sir.
Cause this is the last time.
Hey, hey, I'll be facetiming the owner of this company.
My croissant is on the line!
I think he needs to go with you!
Just set that up on a tri-pod and I'll just do all this on my own.
Gus, I'm trying to get him to go Gus!
I know, we're on our 3rd battery pack!