Bumper care

Hi
My freelanders bumpers have changes to a horrible grey colour what's the best product to get them looking nice again?

paint

What year is it? They were grey to start wiv, then went black in 2002, then colour coded in 2004.

might sound daft but peanut butter willl bring the bling back to them,

mjrimmer said:

might sound daft but peanut butter willl bring the bling back to them,

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crunchy or smooth?

JoeyIowFreelander said:

Hi
My freelanders bumpers have changes to a horrible grey colour what's the best product to get them looking nice again?

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im going to change all my grey trim to black on my 2nd freelander,

It's an 02 plate. They may have started off as grey to be honest but they just ****ing horrible at the moment! Was thinking of going for a Matt black paint to them?

Others have painted them in the past but had problems wiv the paint sticking and flaking. They went to black plastic around 2002. There's a few freds on ere about what other have done.

ere: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/freelander-bumbers-back-black-98991.html

Tried back to black which didn't really help, and also tire treat which was a little more successful. But want something that I can do then leave as both tire treat and back to black I Was having to do a couple of times a week

Linseed oil seems to be a favorite in the link I posted above. I suppose it depends on how far gone your bumper colour is. Would you like them to be proper black as if painted, or would you prefer them to look as new, even if thats grey? It may be the case you'll need to keep applying something like linseed to bring them back to life.

As a coïncidence I took care of my car today, yesterday I cleaned it (it was about 4 months ago ) and today as it was too hot to get out in the sun I decided to polish it and take care of the bumpers, the result is as you can see below, bumpers as well as all the rest of the plastic (black or grey, not important) are done with my wonderbottle.

Willo oil . . . . .try this [Ming oil] its a slight variation of Willo oil Linseed oil mixed with old diesel engine oil about 50 /50 dribble of white spirits ,test so its not to sticky if it is more white spirits ,put on with a lint free cloth . . . .warning soak cloth in water after use as linseed oil can make cloths self ignite under certain conditions [true]

ere ming, just bin reading about linseed oil. It's seems yer right about the fire risk. Heat generated comes from polymerisation of the oil, un spontaneous combustion can occur.

Just one very very small question. Bin wondering if it's safe use on ours Freelanders? The bit by the hot radiator un engine? Int that a fire risk too?

Hippo said:

ere ming, just bin reading about linseed oil. It's seems yer right about the fire risk. Heat generated comes from polymerisation of the oil, un spontaneous combustion can occur.

Just one very very small question. Bin wondering if it's safe use on ours Freelanders? The bit by the hot radiator un engine? Int that a fire risk too?

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its ok on plastic just lint cloth thats a problim. . . .but keep it away from the doors just in case you know wot

ming said:

its ok on plastic just lint cloth thats a problim. . . .but keep it away from the doors just in case you know wot

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Hippo said:

Linseed oil seems to be a favorite in the link I posted above. I suppose it depends on how far gone your bumper colour is. Would you like them to be proper black as if painted, or would you prefer them to look as new, even if thats grey? It may be the case you'll need to keep applying something like linseed to bring them back to life.

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It is the lack of UV stabilizer in the plastic/vinyl, that causes the fading

Fur Trapper said:

It is the lack of UV stabilizer in the plastic/vinyl, that causes the fading

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So as well as willo oil, un ming oil, we needs sun tan cream on our bumpers too?

I use a cheap bumper restorer called Astonish black shine restorer it 99p from the cheap £1 shops and the like and its in a black trigger spray.
You do however have to do it on a regular basis or the grey takes hold again, i have tried everything but this cheap astonish is by far the best for the price.
Spray it onto a wash up sponge and wipe it on .......and again ....and again till the black begins to take hold .
I remember my dads old volvo years ago and he used boot polish on the bumper , not sure about that as a fix though !

Joey,

I tried back to black, and it wasnt worth a ****.. Ive used WD 40 on them, after a treatment they look fab.. deep shibney black, and it lasted about 4 weeks before i reapplied..

Ive also heard you can get awesome results by rubbing them with linseed oil.. havent tried it myself yet.. I was going to, but considering the excellent results i got after sticking WD40 on them, im not going to bother trying linseed oil..

A sunday market by me sells huge cans of WD40 for £1.50... cheap as chips and excellent results