cobra bumper

[20001 mustang]

so I have a chance to get a cheap 04 cobra bumper, i love the look of it but cant stand the fobra feeling. i heard about somebody that filled in the cobra print on the back of the bumper, anyone heard of someone doing this or know what it might cost to get that filled and painted?

 

[Deleted member 38176]

Are you getting an already painted bumper or a non-painted one?

Best and easiest thing to do is use some bondo to fill in the lettering, sand, and then paint the entire bumper.

 

[SlammedGT]

I always thought it would be cool to cut the "MUSTANG" out of the regular bumper and plastic weld it into the Cobra cover

 

[20001 mustang]

id be buying it painted but would need to paint it another color. the mustang print idea is awsome, but sound very expensive and i doubt i could find a place to do it, especially considering how anal i would be about the finish. isnt the bumper made of fibreglass, wouldnt it be better to fill with that, although more expensive and harder to do?

 

[rabidscoobie]

Well I came here just to ask a similar question.

Earlier today when driving around town I pulled up behind a Torch red 04 Mach 1 with a Cobra bumper,but it had no writing at all.
Looked very pro or maybe bought that way I dunno.I tried to catch him but I caught a light.Im curious what he did...looked very nice.

 

[rabidscoobie]

Are you getting an already painted bumper or a non-painted one?

Best and easiest thing to do is use some bondo to fill in the lettering, sand, and then paint the entire bumper.

I dont think bondo would work,the bumper is flexible,bondo isnt...right?

 

[20001 mustang]

ya thats what i thought, im not big on bondo unless its a must, i wouldnt want it cracking on me. too bad you missed that guy id like to know how they do it and roughly how much they pay

 

[rabidscoobie]

ya thats what i thought, im not big on bondo unless its a must, i wouldnt want it cracking on me. too bad you missed that guy id like to know how they do it and roughly how much they pay

I tried to find him...but he was really moving...

 

[dvtr-]

Depending on how much that guy is asking, you can get a smoothed cobra rear bumper for pretty cheap. Late model restoration used to sell em but not anymore for some reason.

 

[Ponyup1]

Are you getting an already painted bumper or a non-painted one?

Best and easiest thing to do is use some bondo to fill in the lettering, sand, and then paint the entire bumper.

Using Bondo would not be a good idea seeing how overtime the paint on
his rear bumper would spider crack and orange peel around the
letters you filled in.

 

[Deleted member 38176]

I dont think bondo would work,the bumper is flexible,bondo isnt...right?

Do you plan on flexing the rear bumper? Google "filling in rear lettering on mustang bumper" (or something along those lines) and see how many results don't mention bondo. Besides that, it's good to see how many stangnet-ers are apparently experts on body work. Good deal!

 

[rabidscoobie]

Do you plan on flexing the rear bumper? Google "filling in rear lettering on mustang bumper" (or something along those lines) and see how many results don't mention bondo. Besides that, it's good to see how many stangnet-ers are apparently experts on body work. Good deal!

Its late for me,but Im not for sure if your agreeing or being sarcastic?

Oh and as for flexing the rear bumper,I dont plan too but so far on both stangs I owned both have been hit in the rear,plus 1 Z28.

 

[Deleted member 38176]

Its late for me,but Im not for sure if your agreeing or being sarcastic?

Oh and as for flexing the rear bumper,I dont plan too but so far on both stangs I owned both have been hit in the rear,plus 1 Z28.

I was being sarcastic, but mainly addressing the others in this thread (just quoted you). For all similar applications (including other mustang owners filling the rear bumper letters), bondo is used with little to no defects.

Thats the negative aspect of forums such as this one, you get a lot of people who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about giving you their 0.02

 

[rabidscoobie]

I was being sarcastic, but mainly addressing the others in this thread (just quoted you). For all similar applications (including other mustang owners filling the rear bumper letters), bondo is used with little to no defects.

Thats the negative aspect of forums such as this one, you get a lot of people who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about giving you their 0.02

Thought so,and thats why I ended that comment with a ? Cause I didnt know,but thought I might have read that somewhere before. Hell if I know.

 

[Ponyup1]

Thought so,and thats why I ended that comment with a ? Cause I didnt know,but thought I might have read that somewhere before. Hell if I know.

Pay Nightfire no attention he doesn't know what he is talking about.
Nightfire stop giving bad advice to people.
Don't use Bondo on your car.
You can have a body shop shave off the letters on the rear bumper
cover and have them sand it down then preped and painted.

 

[Shiroelex]

Bondo Mar-Hyde Corp. 3310 Flexible Bumper and Plastic Patch Kit

I had a friend that put a Supercoupe rear bumper on the back of a Cougar. He ended up filling in the "Thunderbird SC" with something similar to this stuff and painted over it. The product was actually made by "Bondo" which is just the name of a company, just like how "NOS" is Holley. So yes, you can "Bondo" the letters in if you do it properly and it will be just fine. That Cougar has been filled in like that and looking great for at least 5 years now as a daily driver.

How do you figure a body shop 'shaves off' the letters and sands them down? They FILL it in first, THEN sand it down. Those letters aren't filled with hopes and dreams.

 

[joshjwc9]

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[2006KJ]

i've worked in my dad's body shop for the last 11 years... and if i was assigned this job i'd say go buy one without the letters.. but if the client HAD to have it done to his bumper this is what i'd do...

use a very heavy grit sand paper (80) on a DA to cut down and level the letters as much as possible.. if they would go completely flat i'd take it that far.. but plastic could get thin. Then go over all the 80 scratches with 150, then 240, then 320... if i couldnt get all the letters out that way i'd leave them as thin as possible and throw a very thin coat of bondo on it (they make it for plastic)... then sand that how you want it with lighter and light sand paper then coat the entire sanded area with flex primer for plastic bumpers... then paint. may have to do the primer several times because when you sand plastic down like that it gets 'hairy' and takes several times to clean it up. it will never crack unless the bumper gets hit.. in that case stock paint would crack anyway.

 

[SlammedGT]

Do they sell the 03/04 Cobra style bumper with no letters?

 

[rabidscoobie]

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Thats a GT,not a Cobra bumper,we are talking about Cobra's