Bumper Cracks/Lines????

[capt512]

Good Afternoon,



When waxing my father's car the other day I noticed that he now has lines in the paint of his bumper cover that I had not seen before. The lines are similar to those created when a bumper recieves some type of impact, though he doesn't remember hitting anything. I can only feel a 1 or 2 of the lines with my nail, and just barely then. I couldn't find anything in my small arsenal that seemed to help much, so decided I would ask you guys.

Is there anything besides a repaint that you can think of to blend/remove/or at least help hide these lines/cracks?



Pictures are included.

Thanks.

 

[Bill D]

It's still kind of tough for me to make them out but I do know cracks don't necessarily have to only come from impacts. Lots of things could cause them, such as temperature extremes, if the temperature of wash water was too extreme from the environment's temperature, perhaps a simple case of defective clear coat from the factory--my Caddy has, even cracking induced from stress of being on a lift for service ( I heard Corvettes are quite prone to this), etc.

 

[rollman]

Maybe someone hit him while parking . The only way to fix this is to repaint the area. I'm guessing this section was repainted once before and they didn't add enough flex agent to the paint.

 

[Anthony O.]

Yep, stress fractures in the paint. Short of a repaint you really can't fix them. These bumpers have an added flex agent but perhaps it is somehow defective.



Anthony

 

[capt512]

Ok thats what I was afraid of, thanks for the quick replies though, and yes the rear bumper was repainted, about a year ago someone rearended his car in the parkin lot, and when he came out he found the damage, had to have the bumper replaced and repainted (twice, moron painters...). Time to look for impact marks, and if not any then back to Allstate Insurance claims I go.

 

[rollman]

Ok thats what I was afraid of, thanks for the quick replies though, and yes the rear bumper was repainted, about a year ago someone rearended his car in the parkin lot, and when he came out he found the damage, had to have the bumper replaced and repainted (twice, moron painters...). Time to look for impact marks, and if not any then back to Allstate Insurance claims I go.

It doesn't take much of a hit to the bumper to make the paint crack like that. Its rare that you see this happening to a factory paint job and very common on repaints .



Years ago when my 87 camaro had been painted after an accident I leaned on the nose while I was working on the car and it cracked like hard candy hitting concrete . I had all these little cracks over the entire center part of the nose. It didn't take much pressure .