I took Punisher's front bumper cover in to Jeff's to get a "nose job".
Long time listeners . . .
May know that the car is covered with a special clear that is highly resistant to road rash. As a result its thick, resiliant on the top and very hard under surface. This allows the top layer to resist damage while the layers under can and do flex to absorb the incoming energy. They then return to their initial condition.
When I hit the tire tred in 2010 it flexed the bumper which put ripples in the color layer. The bumper was still perfectly painted but had a series of lines where the bumper had flexed as it absorbed the energy of the impact.
When they repaired the front bumper, because it had custom graphics on it that they wanted to retain, they masked off the stripes and flames, roughed up the layer of clear, shot new color and then cleared over the top. It looked great.
However when it received rocks on the road, causing the clear to flex, the new layer of clear separated from the initial layer of clear and tiny clear pimples showed up. It felt perfectly flat so all the action was deep inside the paint, between the initial layer of clear and the new layer of clear.
The entire bumper is being repainted. :thumbs: And better still, they are painting the area inside the bumper where the grilles mate to the slots black. So the slots will not show up if you sand a foot away and stare into the joint between the grilles and the bumper.
And the price is . .. zero because its Jeff and maintenance work.:thumbs::thumbs: