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Thread: Front bumper cover repair, what material is it made from???

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    Front bumper cover repair, what material is it made from???

    Trying to plastic weld it. Cut a piece off a 2001 A6 wagon. Practiced fixing a crack and adding material. Worked great ! Easy ! What the hell is the RS6 bumper material? Like trying to weld pot metal! Seriously! Any information is welcome please! Not happy!!!

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    If you look for some text inside the cover it should say.

    I'm pretty sure that it's AND though.
    2012 Q7 TDI S-Line - 2010 GTI - 2007 A3 3.2 S-Line - 2003 RS6
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    Below is a list of the products that I used to repair my bumper after my deer encounter. I even filled in the holes drilled for the license plate bracket.

    3M 34240 Semi-Rigid Plastic Repair (filler)
    3M 35887 EZ Sand Multi Purpose Repair (top coat)
    3M 04747 Super Fast Repair Adhesive (attempted to recreate a missing Dzus nut tab but failed)

    Applicator
    3M 08190

    Mixing tips
    3M 38191

    3M 05907 Polyolefin Adhesion Promoter
    3M 08987 General Purpose Adhesive Cleaner

    3M 3381 Foil Tape

    3M 04903 5" x 12' Plastic contour sheet roll
    3M 04904 5" x 12' Reinforcement patch roll

    3M 357 bondo spreader

    I followed the procedures from this video.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEVEto8dc0

    And an album for you to see the extent of my repair.
    https://imgur.com/a/smYta


    At the time of the repair, there was allegedly two bumper covers in some Audi warehouse stateside. I believe another member here picked one up and I wasn't ever able to locate the other. Hence the repair vs replace. After handing it off to the body shop it's a challenge to tell there was ever any damage without removing to inspect the backside.
    03 RS6 Avus/Ebony #905593 resurrected 6MT, 04 Avalanche Z71, 87 T-Bird Turbo Coupe (351W T5), 04 Aprilia RSVR Factory

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    Awesome Bethridg I'll look through all that for sure! Two of the side clip tangs were broken, and the aft of both sides are missing material and cracked. I bought the the to different style plastic repair kits. Worked great on all but this RS6 front bumper. After I get this figured out with you info I'll attempt to repair it all again. Thanks again!

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