Phillips_91
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Registered: 20th Jan 10
Location: Blackpool. Drives: Sapphire Black Mk4 Astra 1.8
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has anyone smoothed there front bumper, if so is it easy and is there a tutorial anywhere.. really fancy doin mine but too scared without a tutorial lmao... fairly new to stuff like this im more of a de-badge type of modder lol but really want to learn to do more stuff myself 
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SnK
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Registered: 2nd Mar 09
Location: Yeadon, West Yorkshire
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The best bet is plastic welding mate. Get some plastic from an old bumper and put it in the gap your smoothing then melt it with a heat gun or torch. Then use some filler to sand any bumps. But don't just use filler for the gaps or over time it'll either sink or come off.
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reidy22
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Registered: 10th Aug 09
Location: scotland-ayr
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plastic weld it use a soldering iron thats what i use sand it down light skim of fibreglass and then sand down then ull probably need a very light skim of filler alot will say it will sink which is true yes but done right will last years
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Phillips_91
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Registered: 20th Jan 10
Location: Blackpool. Drives: Sapphire Black Mk4 Astra 1.8
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well thats handy i have a blow lamp lol  might get 2 scrap bumpers then and have a bash thanks for the help guys 
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ash-ov-boro
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Registered: 22nd Oct 09
Location: middlesbrough,cleveland
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if you do have ago at it corsasport1.4phillips
you should put up a tutorial on here so everyone else knows also will you be spraying it maybe put a spray tutorial up too
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