wet sanding

[JoeliusZ28]

S'all good, Joel, your car's too nice to have those type of cracks, I unfortunately only know from experience, and thats not a good thing.

I wouldnt go that far.... my rear bumper has 3-4 LONNG cracks in it. thankfully they arent very noticeable. Someday i will get it redone too.

[02redz28]

Thats some pretty bad ass spider web you got goin there.. you should make your car the Spider Man Bird...

[phoenix_rising]

Would a body shop be able to remove the cracks if I willing to pay for paint. Which I would have to do anyway when I get my T/A hatch, E-1 spoiler and W68 Kit.

The white would actually be wax residue that gets stuck in the cracks. Garaunteed if you were to swap over the cracks with rubbing alcohol the "white lines" would disappear. I'm all too familiar with the spiderweb cracks. To get rid of those, you have to sand all the way through the paint to the bare plastic to really get rid of those cracks... the base coat flexed from the bumper being pushed on and it cracked the paint. If you wet sand you'll even it down, but it'll still be cracked. If you wet sand through the clear coat into the color, it'll look like it's gone but when you clear it, you'll see the lines. You'll have to sand all the way through until you get to bare plastic, and even then you'll have to get paint with flex additive in it or else it'll recrack. That's 100% the reason why I bought a new bumper. I had a lot of spiderweb cracks (plus some tears in the bumper from the previous owner) and every where i went said it'd be cheaper to get a reproduction bumper myself and have them paint that instead of them stripping the bumper down and then repainting.

[meissen]

Would a body shop be able to remove the cracks if I willing to pay for paint. Which I would have to do anyway when I get my T/A hatch, E-1 spoiler and W68 Kit.

They would, but you should find out just how much it'd cost to have them strip down the paint and repaint it and what not. I got my front bumper shipped to my door for $106, so $106 + paint and having a new bumper was better than however much labor would cost for them stripping down the bumper and then repainting what I had.