Having panels sprayed without the car?

[MickAdams]

Hi guys,

I took my front bumper off yesterday, firstly to fix the leaking washer which seems OK after a good clean, but secondly to fix the scraped fangs. Once I got the bumper in to the garage, I noticed a bit of lacquer peel on one side, after a bit of prodding, this quickly turned in to quite a big area with no lacquer So it doesn't really seem worth fixing the fangs now, and I don't think my equipment or painting skills are really adequate for the full bumper, so a professional job is needed.

My question really is... would you take the panel on it's own to be sprayed and rely on the colour match from the paint code, or would you expect a better job taking the whole car? In my experience, all I'm likely to get is the paint mixed up to the code anyway, and I'd not expect a bumper to be blended in to the car anyway, so I can't see any downside to taking just the bumper? The upside is that I can easily get home from dropping it off, rather than having to sort out other transport. I'd also get to keep the car here, which might give me chance to do some of the other jobs I've got lined up on it too.

What would you do?

 

[srhutch]

What colour do you have.

I'm getting my bumper done over winter to fix the chips. I will remove and take yo the paint shop on its own. Unless you want it blended in then I see no reason for it to be on the car.

You can take the car to them to enable paint matching and then just leave the bumper there.

 

[MickAdams]

It's Titan Silver, I managed to get a good colour match with a Halfords spray can tested on an old wing mirror, so hopefully it won't be hard for a body shop.

 

[aquazi]

I have always had the bits done off the car minimise any chance of overspray.

Very colour dependent... If its red then then would need to have the car to match the fade.

 

[MickAdams]

I have always had the bits done off the car minimise any chance of overspray.

Very colour dependent... If its red then then would need to have the car to match the fade.

I'd expect it would have to be taken off to be painted anyway to take the vents and badge off, I don't think it'd ever be a good job painted without taking them off. It's more just the slight worry that without being able to check against the car it'll not match... but then I'm not sure if most places would even do anything if it doesn't match anyway

 

[pvr]

I have always had the bits done off the car minimise any chance of overspray.

Very colour dependent... If its red then then would need to have the car to match the fade.

Unless you have my magic paint protection layer

 

[mj2k]

I have always had the bits done off the car minimise any chance of overspray.

Very colour dependent... If its red then then would need to have the car to match the fade.

Unless you have my magic paint protection layer

Do tell.....

 

[MickAdams]

An update to this... I took the bumper to 2 different body shops, both thought they'd get a better result if I took it in on the car so they could check the match. One said that they could spray it, then blend in to the bonnet and wings on the car later if it didn't match, but I try and leave panels original when possible.

I decided to put the car back together and get it's MOT sorted out, then I'll get the bumper sorted out when I get chance.