Reply With QuoteMy son used it on his wheels of his motor bike after just a month or so it started to peel . I wasn,t impressed , on plastic I am not sure how it would stick .
New Dubber
Anyone had any experience in using Plasti Dip on their unpainted grey bumpers?
Looks like a great option to tidy up the front and/or rear bumpers.
Volkswagenist
My son used it on his wheels of his motor bike after just a month or so it started to peel . I wasn,t impressed , on plastic I am not sure how it would stick .
Volkswagen Enthusiast
I used Mothers Back To Black and it worked a treat.
Cheapest way is to use 50/50 linseed oil and turps.
Paint it on, when you've covered the whole thing, wipe it off with a clean rag.\Don't get it on anything else.
You'll have to redo it about once a year but it's easy and cheap............and better than most other products!
2018 Crafter Runner
T5.1 6sp manual.
Volkswagen Fan
if you search, there's also this
Restoration of black bumpers on T5
Steve
04 T5
New Dubber
The bumpers on my 08 T5 are standard grey. The van had previously belonged to a guy who did floor coverings, and there was all sorts of stuff on the rear bumper. The front bumper had all these unusual looking white marks through it, like it had been bumped and then a heat gun or something had been used to bring it back to its original shape. That actually hadn't happened because I looked around at other grey bumpers and they all had the same marks.
I decided to paint mine, and also the two little quarter panels between the rear bumper and the tail lights. Because other plastic parts on the car are black, I went with a matt black colour.
I found that when I applied the plastic primer the unusual looking white marks in the front bumper disappeared, so I reckon if you wanted to keep your bumpers original you could simply primer them and then clear coat them.
Clear coat wasn't an option for me because of the state of the rear bumper, but I'm stoked with how they have come up, and also with the colour which now matches the other plastic trims on the van
Volkswagenist
It,s pretty poor form from a huge car maker like VW that those plastic parts go to **** so quickly in our climate , I find in my line of work huge numbers of plastic parts that fail miserably because car makers don,t bother to check real world conditions . A bit like those idiots at VW who did not bother to test the T5 Tiptronic box in Australian conditions , anyone who believed a fluid would retain its viscosity under our harsh conditions should be shot . Even a simple external tranny cooler would have helped .
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