ZinnoBerrot to Rustoleum Regal Red Comparison, Worth it? (Bumper/Valance)

[CHNinimugen]

Hey guys this is my 1st time posting on the forum. Ive had my e30 for almost 8 years now, being my 1st car. Anyways the whole point of this post is to document my experience using Regal Red from Rustoleum to paint a used valance and bumper I got off a yard car a year or so ago back. The valance and bumper we damn near perfect and I got them for a steal of a price for about 30 bucks together. I also got a rear bumper that was also zinno, but havent painted it yet which I will do since I liked the outcome. Over all I spent around 65 bucks for all the paint, clear, and primer I used. A can of zinno mixed up from a paint place or a touch up place online is about 20-30 bucks shipped to you in a aerosol can, and you would need at least a can 2 cans for a bumper and valance, or a can or so for a bumper. I picked up the regal red for 4 bucks a can at walmart, clear was 4 bucks, and primer was 4 bucks. The biggest expense was the "Wurth Stone Guard" for the texture on the bottom of the valance to resist stone chips of course, that in itself was 30 bucks shipped to me offline. Few other things I had to have was assorted sandpaper for stripping previous paint from bumper, and some to wet sand.

Sand Paper I used was: 320/600/800/1000/1200
Regal Red: How ever many you need
Primer: Same, depends
Clear Coat: Same
Stone Guard: If your doing the valance

I think it came out good and matches up with the zinno pretty well if your paint is faded now is a good time to buff/wax the car to get best results with the rest of the car. I have a youtube channel where I documented the whole process of me doing it, so if you wanna check it out ill link that also.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSSUKRJHt6k

ill leave before and after pics and stuff in the post also, thanks for looking! Any questions, let me know and ill do my best to answer them.

[craiglepaige]

Nice work. The match looks on point.