Question Regarding Paintings... FML...

JZNx

Hello Guys,

So couple years back, I think around 2011, I had an incident where a uhal scrapped the front of my bumper and my headlight. At the time I took it to a Mexican Auto Paint Shop in LA and I believe they painted over the damaged areas. So for a while everything looked good.

However maybe around a year ago, I can definitely noticed that it was bit off. What I mean by that is that the area that were painted over were definitely less shiny when compared to an area that hadn't been painted over.

And today I got a car wash and as I was wiping down the water with a yellow micro fiber towel, I noticed some of the paints were coming (more of peeling little by little) off... I knew this because my yellow towel had black specs all over...

Any advice at this point?

My original intention was to get one of the aftermarket fiber glass front bumper and paint it over but now I'm bit worried that since it's made out of different material when compared to a stock bumper, it might look a lot different and I'm bit worried that it won't be as shiny when compared to other parts of the car... Or is this something that I should not worry about when getting a fiberglass bumper? Btw my car color is black cherry, if anyone's wondering...

Anyone have any experience with aftermarket bumpers and painting them over? How do they come out? When compared to other stock parts, are they identical or can you tell a difference?

I will post some pictures later.

Any advice would be appreciated...

Thank you,
Jay