vorgath

I need to stop working on my car whenever I have duty at the base. Each time I've done it, something has gone wrong, lack of one or two screws, wrong tool wrong something.


Yesterday, good example again.


We had to fix one of the vans a while back, so my buddy refinished the bumper real nice, and he used bumper black in a spray can.


Seems I got the wrong bumper black. Sanded my headlight pockets, primed and painted. WRONG paint.


There are TWO bumper black sprays out there. One is the rubbery one, one is more like regular paint. The rubbery one I guess COULD be used for the windshield frame,, but not for headlight pockets. I scratched it with my damn fingernail, and even more when putting two lights back in.


So now I need to redo the pockets, from scratch, and I got satin black, Rustoleum's satin black, at Home Depot and will use that instead.


Now there is something called "trim black" maybe that would work too, but heck damn Kragen here's full of IDIOTS. You call them, as kfor bumper black, the answer is "Uhhhhhh yeah we have black spray paint you can use for painting the bumpers uuuuh" ... nooo do you have ACTUAL bumper black .. there IS bumper black it's the actual name .. and the answer is "uuhhhh no I don't think we have any"


The distance, in that particular Kragen store, between where the phone is and the cabinet with the spray paints, 20 feet. The stupid *** couldn't even walk that far.


Napa can be a joke here too, got some more fuel line for the filler neck, asked for a foot, well he cut it so damn crooked, so if you measure from shortest part to shortest part, it falls short of 12 inches. Gotta take that back now.



I NEED A GOOD PART STORE !!!!!!!!!

iansane

iTrader: (1)

CSK recently ditched half of the stocking paints they carried and the one or two bumper paints went with them. And they didn't stock "Bumper black." Did you ask the guy you got it from?

vorgath

Got it at different store, I think I got it at PepBoys.


CSK ???


Well this Kragen has always been useless anyway, only way one can get stuff there is to go in, go to the shelf, and go through the basket full of stuff that came in days ago but they've been too stupid as to figure out WHERE on the shelf it goes.

iansane

iTrader: (1)

Checker/Schucks/Kragen

Different name, same store.

FndmntlsOfPimpn

you could use the trim black, i used that to refinish all my window mouldings on my 240 it drys out to a real nice smooth satin black, its in a green can and made by duplicolor

'Shifter

iTrader: (2)

Krylon makes a nice 'flexible bumper paint' in a satin black which looks pretty
damn nice, part number FB105.

vorgath

See I'[m staying far away from the flexible paints .. since I'm going to use the paint on the gfx and most likely stripes as well

Went with Rustoleum Satin Black .... turned out nice... except that for two spots where I tried to cover up a scratch from installing the lights... I may just repaint it with one coat


Or ... would satin black work as far as wetsanding with 600 or 1000 grit sandpaper .. to make it all smooth ?