Legend Front Lip Repair

[Justin123560]

So I got a Legend Front Lip today. It has some deep scratches on it. I would like to know how to repair them with what materials [sanding grit, filler? , primer, and black trim paint?] thanks

[dbales]

I think just sanding might be your best bet. Might not get rid of all of the scratches, especially with the deeper ones (mine looked like it was ran over a curb quite a few times when I got it). Throw on some black trim paint and call it a day.

Filler or bondo on a plastic piece like that will eventually look like a hot mess if you scrape it on a couple steep driveways, even more so if you're lowered.

Hope this helps, throw up some before and after pics once you get it done.

[hondamanf22]

Well if it has a crease from hitting a corner not necessarily scracthes you can torch them out with some heat from the back side of the lip and use something with a rounded edge to push it back. can also do this to small scracthes as well since your going to be respraying it anyways(experiment with it).

as for paint I found that rust-oleum semi gloss black look the closet to have the oem look and holds up pretty good as far as ageing goes.

if you use a filler like bodo it will probably give and fall off cause of road conditions and flexing from air hitting at higher speeds or side walk lol.

you can use a primer filler but you'll lose that pittiness look that the plastics
have

just my 2cents.

[Justin123560]

Here are the BEFORE Pics




Also is this a sedan or coupe lip ?

I think just sanding might be your best bet. Might not get rid of all of the scratches, especially with the deeper ones (mine looked like it was ran over a curb quite a few times when I got it). Throw on some black trim paint and call it a day.

Filler or bondo on a plastic piece like that will eventually look like a hot mess if you scrape it on a couple steep driveways, even more so if you're lowered.

Hope this helps, throw up some before and after pics once you get it done.

I'll try this strategy today. Thanks for the help bud

Well if it has a crease from hitting a corner not necessarily scracthes you can torch them out with some heat from the back side of the lip and use something with a rounded edge to push it back. can also do this to small scracthes as well since your going to be respraying it anyways(experiment with it).

as for paint I found that rust-oleum semi gloss black look the closet to have the oem look and holds up pretty good as far as ageing goes.

if you use a filler like bodo it will probably give and fall off cause of road conditions and flexing from air hitting at higher speeds or side walk lol.

you can use a primer filler but you'll lose that pittiness look that the plastics
have

just my 2cents.

I'll try this method after my first. Thanks for the response

[gvaldez92]

Scuffs are not too bad one thing lots of people forget about is JB welds its awsome on plastic/ABS. Put a small coat over the scuffed areas, cracks, holes ect. then sand down the JB welds till its nice and smooth and flush with the rest of the lip. Then prime/paint it. My brother in laws lip was cracked completely in half JB welds did wonders for it.

[crazymikey]

^ haha yes, I was going to suggest the JB Weld fix as well. Fixing scraped up plastic panels is very hard without investing a lot of time into it if you want to keep the original texture without smoothing the whole thing out.

Nice counter tops btw.

[Justin123560]

Scuffs are not too bad one thing lots of people forget about is JB welds its awsome on plastic/ABS. Put a small coat over the scuffed areas, cracks, holes ect. then sand down the JB welds till its nice and smooth and flush with the rest of the lip. Then prime/paint it. My brother in laws lip was cracked completely in half JB welds did wonders for it.

I'll look into that. Thanks

^ haha yes, I was going to suggest the JB Weld fix as well. Fixing scraped up plastic panels is very hard without investing a lot of time into it if you want to keep the original texture without smoothing the whole thing out.

Nice counter tops btw.

Haha thanks. It's nice counter tops with a dirty smelly lip on top of it

[dbales]

You asked if it was a sedan or coupe lip. If you don't know personally (you didn't pull the part off the car yourself), you'll find out when you slap it on your bumper. If its about an inch from being flush with your bumper on each side then its a sedan lip; if it mounts perfectly flush, its a coupe lip. Coupe lips are harder to come by, usually.

[HATCHing]

You can also try flexable plastic poly filler, then primer and paint.

[Justin123560]

I am in the process of painting it right now. I will post pictures of the finished product probably tonight most likely. Thank you everyone for your help.

[Justin123560]

Sorry about all the glare in the pictures. It came out pretty well. I'm not worried about it being all perfect, it's probably going to scratch up anyway since LA streets are crappy. Thumps up or down ?

[tJoodz]

Thumbs up. looks a lot better, good job!

[islandhopper]

now lets see it mounted up!

[SinCityCB702]

man i guess i was too lazy to do this to mine lol... i just slapped it on there... i guess once i have a weekend off i might take it off to do this...great job

[crazymikey]

I'd say that looks a hell of a lot better than before. Nice work.