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C300
October 1st, 2018, 01:10
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!!!

SteveKen
October 1st, 2018, 03:54
If you look for some text inside the cover it should say.

I'm pretty sure that it's AND though.

bethridg
October 1st, 2018, 05:23
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.

C300
October 20th, 2018, 00:07
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!