Kia plastic bumper dent restoration,

[ino uno soweno]

Bit more plastic welding here. Also my line of thought is sometimes bumper covers off different cars can be cheap to replace, and a lot of others are very expensive and rare, I have seen and restored many covers like this and worse, depending on the damage and how rare they are,,,
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Above picture shows good side.
Blue lines show good original contours,
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Above picture shows damaged side,


Black arrows show where the main tear in the leading face extends to and up the vertical grill bar, blue arrows show blue paint contact and red arrows show red paint contact, yellow circle shows bulk of damage,
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Red arrows show rip or crack, blue lines show ( right side, )slightly twisted but still straight contours, purple lines show the distortion on damaged side, (left) yellow circle show possible light bucket transplant for practice, also for practice I will try to cut out about the width of the number plate to show two halves of a bumper cover can be welded back together and be plenty strong enough,


Point of interest here is the cover is both painted, and has black plastic lower section, (with a very slight pattern) , meaning all massaging will be done from the back and on or inside the bumper cover surface, and I will have to restore the pattern on the black plastic outer surface where damaged,


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[ino uno soweno]

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Green arrow shows 1st and 2nd heat and massage areas, with a large damaged area like this it might take about 8 heat and massages to get the bumper cover restored,
Red arrows show 2 rips to be welded,

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Yellow arrows show faint rub marks.