Repainting spots on `01 Outback plastic bumber.

Jun 29, 2006 5 Replies

I'm about to sit down sometime in the next two weeks and proceed with 'fixing' several stratches on and underneath the gold/Champagne colored bumpers on my Outback. My planned process is to take sandpaper and attach it to the end of a pencil and lightly sand down the surface on and around the very immediate area of the scratch. At least getting the hard scratch edges out and getting things smoothed down. Then take finer grit paper



600ish sand again. Then get paint of the exact same color code as the bumper. Apply that, wet sand, apply more as needed and continue that process working my way upto 2000-4000 grit paper. When it's ready I plan to get some Novus #2 plastic polish and go over once more before done.

These scratches aren't deep nor major, but they irk me that they are there. I want to get this done asap this summer. My question is, what is the color code for the color of the `00-`04 Outback plastic molding/bumpers? Would the dealership have this paint or if I knew the color code could I find this online?



Brad


Well I found the color codes, however no automotive paint sites online have this color for Subaru model year 2001.

Color 8X7 Trim 040

Contact Jamie through

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for 'touch up' paint

also, take a look at

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Carl

Subaru only sells the little bottles of touch-up liquid. If you goto

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they will sell you a custom mixed spray can to your match your factory paint code.

Does those little bottles need to be ordered directly from Subaru, or purchased through the dealer? There isn't enough need for a whole spray cans worth of paint. Thanks for the link tho.

I think a dealer near me was willing to sell me some.

-- Mark

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