Making the bumpers black again...

[jesper moreau]

Try Mothers Back to black. It took me 3 applications over a week to produce
a showroom finish. and now it stays black without reapplication.

 you can find Mothers "Back to Black" at your FLAPS. I honestly think it is
one of the best plastic restorers out there.

BTW, after the first app it looks like it isn't soaking in. The second - 50
%. and the final I couldn't believe my eyes.

On 8/2/06, Al S <STREICHEA001 at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Cody, Yes Black Again is still available. it is made by
> http://store.northamericanoil.com/product_info.php?products_id=41. Google
> it
> and you will see who carries it. I had to have someone on the mainland buy
> it and mail it to me.
>
> Al Streicher
> '90  Audi  80
> Mililani, Hawaii
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of John Cody Forbes
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:21 PM
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Making the bumpers black again...
>
>
> I'll be adding the results of this thread to the knowladge base, as I
> looked
> there and couldn't find anything. I also checked the archives because I
> distinctly remember this conversation happeneing a few months ago, but I
> couldn't find anything. I searched for "black bumper", "bumber black
> plastic", "restore bumper", "restoring bumpers", and "black plastic".
>
> What I'm trying to accomplish is making the black bits of the bumpers on
> my
> Red 5k-t-q look decent. They weren't too bad until I made the mistake of
> using tire shine on them. With fresh tire shine they looked like a million
> bucks, but 2 weeks later they are now very gray and faded looking. The
> side
> panels on the doors are still looking good, but I'm betting whatever the
> end
> solution is for the bumpers can be applied to them also.
>
> IIRC one answer is in the topic. Wasn't there a product called "Black
> Again"
> or something to that effect? Other ideas I had were shoe pollish (I
> immagine
> this would be a VERY temporary fix, not what I want), more tire shine
> (again
> temporary), and rattle canning it. Now when I say rattle canning I do not
> mean a half or even a three quarters assed job. I would use some residue
> free chemicals to remove as much foreign stuff (waxes, tire shine, bird
> doo,
> etc), then a grey primer (two coats for good luck), then scuff with a
> scotch-brite pad,  then 3-4 properly applied coats of a high quality
> semi-gloss or maybe flat black with a scuff in between each layer. I
> really
> think that unless there is a good product out there that painting is the
> best option.
>
> The downsides to painting are the ammount of labor involved, the
> possibilities for things to go wrong (read "a fly/dog hair/baby lands on
> the
> final coat while its still wet"), and the fact that it would look good
> enough for me to get pissed that the red portions of the bumper now need
> to
> be painted...then the tailights wont look good enough for the spiify
> looking
> bumper...then the LF euro-light thats loosing it chrome wont be up to
> snuff...then the front grill will look faded....then the B-pilars will
> need
> paint.....then the rest of the car will need paint....then the rubber bits
> will need to be replaced to look good enough.....then the engine block
> will
> need paint, then the engine bay will need a 2 month long dissasembly and
> detail process.....and by the time I do all that years will have passed
> and
> the bumpers will be ready for paint again. *Sigh*. Kinda like that old
> story
> of the guy that paints the Golden Gate where he just paints it day in and
> day out year round since it takes h
>
> -Cody "Long Post" Forbes
> http://www.5000tq.com
> '86 5k noT noQ
> '86 5k noT noQ - Parting Out
> '87 5ktq
> '87 5ktq - Fast. Really Fast.
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Jesper Moreau
'88 5KTQ rocket - 239HP CIS Daily driver
'87 5KTQA Projekt eminent - future 500HP EFI
'86 5KTQ stocket - gone but not forgotten