Front bumper fix/replacement

hgrimberg · **Joined:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:03 pm **Posts:** 363

My front bumper has a small ding on the right side as can be seen on the picture. I dont know if to fix it and try to paint it with a similar grey color or to just replace it with a new one. Anybody can recommend me a good website for buying this bumper?
Thank you

hgrimberg · **Joined:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:03 pm **Posts:** 363

Where can I buy a new bumper?

cerich · **Posted:** Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:53 pm

Most of us would Google that.

papaindigo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:57 pm

Not sure in Argentina. In the USA I'd suggest a local body shop or junk yard network. Bumpers are not CRD specific but they are color and design specific and your bumper is not a style I've seen up here.

hgrimberg · **Joined:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:03 pm **Posts:** 363

papaindigo wrote:

Not sure in Argentina. In the USA I'd suggest a local body shop or junk yard network. Bumpers are not CRD specific but they are color and design specific and your bumper is not a style I've seen up here.

Hummm, what you are saying is that my Cherokee bumper is different to your American Liberty bumper? Are you sure?
I can buy the original bumper here in Argentina but they want to charge me $500. What I am afraid that the color of a new one will not exactly be the tone of grey I have on my other parts.
I googled it and all I found was a Taiwanese bumper for $88, but I am not sure how similar to the original will be and most likely the color is not exactly the same and it wont look good...
The other option will be to fix it and paint that small area will a similar grey to match the rest and probably later use this product Showroom New Grey (http://www.showroomnewproducts.com/shop-car-dye-kits) over all grey plastic parts to make it all even...
Don't know what to do...

papaindigo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:35 pm

All the Liberty KJs that I've seen have this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jeep-Liberty-Fr ... 0377571360 style of front bumper but looking around I see lots of pictures of the same style of bumper you have. Hence I cannot say for sure that your style of front bumper was not fitted to some KJs up here, just that I've not seen one.

What I can say is either style is available up here for $100-200 depending on source and for around $300-400 you can get a complete steel front bumper.

I assume that dent is actually in the plastic bumper "cover". If you can get the cover off and apply some heat, with like a hand held hair dryer, to the back of that area I'd bet you could push the dent mostly out. As to filling it I'm not sure what would stick but if you can locate something then I'd just find a decent match spray paint in a can and repaint the entire bumper rather than just one spot.

That said if it was mine I probably wouldn't bother fixing it.

hgrimberg · **Joined:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:03 pm **Posts:** 363

Well, the thing is that If I paint the whole bumper in some similar tone of grey, I most likely will never match the grey on the other parts of the car. So, that was why I was thinking about just painting in grey over the repaired area and then try to homogenize that with all the rest passing this product Showroom New Grey. What I am not sure is if this product will do the trick...

flash7210 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:09 pm

My bumper looks just like yours.
I found a replacement for mine on eBay for under $100.
It was not an exact color match.
Painting a plastic bumper never works either. Even if you use special paint for plastic bumpers it will still
peel off.
If you really want your plastic to look good, pull all the pieces off and paint them at the same time.
If you want that paint to last forever, use that heavy duty bed liner stuff.

thermorex · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:41 pm

flash7210 wrote:

My bumper looks just like yours.
I found a replacement for mine on eBay for under $100.
It was not an exact color match.
Painting a plastic bumper never works either. Even if you use special paint for plastic bumpers it will still
peel off.
If you really want your plastic to look good, pull all the pieces off and paint them at the same time.
If you want that paint to last forever, use that heavy duty bed liner stuff.

Correct. And over the bed liner, use a black paint so it won't fade away from sun. The bed liner is great, I painted the lower doors of my Cherokee xj like that and it looks super nice. Use something like this if you can buy it in Argentina

dgeist · **Posted:** Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:10 am

Assmuming you have the "textured grey plastic" finish, I think this is what you have:
http://www.amazon.com/TKY-AM04027BB-DK5-Liberty-Textured-Replacement/dp/B0056ZGCK6

Dan

hgrimberg · **Joined:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:03 pm **Posts:** 363

About the Armor bed liner, is that a paint? I found they have different colors. For our Jeep Liberty Sport, the one we need to match the exact original color is the gray or Dark Charcoal? http://www.duplicolor.com/products/bumperCoating/
I was thinking to use the Showroom New Gray product. What is the dfifference between these 2 products? Which one is better?
You said you used it. Did you paint all bumpers in black? I want to keep the original color.
About the option of buying a whole new bumper, The one you showed me on Amazon is a taiwanese copy of the original that you can also get on ebay for just $88 but my fear is that it wont be exactly the same color...
I found the genuine one on Amazaon for $218: http://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Chrysler- ... sbs_auto_1
But again, since this is a new one, maybe it wont match my existent color and in any case I will have to use one of these products to homogenize the grey on all parts...

kingjeep · **Posted:** Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:47 pm

ebay is a great place but remember its a jeep its suppose to have some dings and scratches

thermorex · **Posted:** Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:51 pm

That bed liner I used is black. I doubt you can get the same Grey color you have on the bumper. Bed liner is something in between undercoating and paint, it dries and becomes like a plastic, very hard. The suggestions were for you to use bed liner on all plastic (fenders and bumpers) and that to paint with the color of your choice, bed liner won't peel from plastic like paint. Its called bed liner bc it's made to last scratches, etc on the bed of the pickup trucks.

hgrimberg · **Joined:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:03 pm **Posts:** 363

thermorex wrote:

That bed liner I used is black. I doubt you can get the same Grey color you have on the bumper. Bed liner is something in between undercoating and paint, it dries and becomes like a plastic, very hard. The suggestions were for you to use bed liner on all plastic (fenders and bumpers) and that to paint with the color of your choice, bed liner won't peel from plastic like paint. Its called bed liner bc it's made to last scratches, etc on the bed of the pickup trucks.

And what about this other product Showroom New Grey (http://www.showroomnewproducts.com/shop-car-dye-kits)?

thermorex · **Posted:** Tue Oct 08, 2013 5:45 pm

I can't help you with that since I have never used that product. I can vouch about the bed liner I used.

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