Bumpers

[Larry Brown]

What ever the bumpers on my coach were plated with its started to peel I was wondering has anyone had them replated? or should I have them sand blasted and paint them silver or aluiminum or should they be powder coated ?

[ALANSD]

My experience with powder coating is that if is fairly easy to chip or scratch off. My bike rack has a number of chipped spots in the coating, and they quickly started to rust.
I polished and waxedmy bumpers, and they look pretty good, but if yours are peeling I would suggest that your sand (blast ?)and repaint option would be a good one. The silver paints really do look good, I just did one of my wheels in metallic silver (my spare)

[Larry Brown]

How about having them cromed? are would that look to gaudy?

[74Argosy24MH]

My 74 Argosy had anodized aluminum bumpers, but anodizing doesn't peel. What type of metal is the bumper made of?

John

[PeterH-350LE]

Larry,
I am glad 74Argosy24MH just wrote his post, because I could swear that mine are solid aluminum. Are you sure it's not someone's coating thats peeling off. Is it rusting?

[Larry Brown]

No rust ,I think the bumppers are cast aluminum .But I think they have some kind of shiny plate?

[PeterH-350LE]

just polish them

[74Argosy24MH]

They probably are anodized. If polishing doesn't work anodizing is dirt cheap. The place I talked to has a $50 minimum, and little brackets, supports, etc. are about 25-50 cents to get done. My biggest problem has been getting enough together to get to the minimum. You probably could get them both done for $50 if all they had to do was dump them in the tank. Chrome is expensive, my grill was $250 and I am not impressed with the job, there is a lot of copper showing.

John