Posted By: DaveG
Bumper repair - 15/01/2023 22:10
Not for a Coupe, but for my youngest son's Hyundai i10, where the rear bumper has become separated from the rear wing by virtue of the "joining strips" breaking away from the edge of the bumper after a small accident, see first pic below. There is other damage towards the bottom of the bumper also (a "tear" in a flat section).
The pic is from an eBay seller of a bumper I was thinking of buying, but has the same damage. The seller suggested that a "plastic weld" might work, but I'm not sure if that meant some form of glue, like JB weld, or those little metal "staples" that you heat up and melt into the plastic and the cut off the "stalks" (see second pic).
I've seen some neat repairs made usings these staples, and perhaps the "right angle" ones would work to reattach the "joining" strips, but on the other hand the staples might melt all the way through or just not melt into enoigh plastic for a proper join. The other damage to the flat section looks easy enough to do from the rear using the regular "curly" staples.
Does anyone have any experience of either JB weld (or similar) or "hot staples" for bumper repairs? The Hyundai bumper seems a liitle thinner than a Coupe bumper, which might make a difference...
The pic is from an eBay seller of a bumper I was thinking of buying, but has the same damage. The seller suggested that a "plastic weld" might work, but I'm not sure if that meant some form of glue, like JB weld, or those little metal "staples" that you heat up and melt into the plastic and the cut off the "stalks" (see second pic).
I've seen some neat repairs made usings these staples, and perhaps the "right angle" ones would work to reattach the "joining" strips, but on the other hand the staples might melt all the way through or just not melt into enoigh plastic for a proper join. The other damage to the flat section looks easy enough to do from the rear using the regular "curly" staples.
Does anyone have any experience of either JB weld (or similar) or "hot staples" for bumper repairs? The Hyundai bumper seems a liitle thinner than a Coupe bumper, which might make a difference...