Man that turned out perfect. You can see your uniquely proportioned head in the reflection very clearly!

Incredible work and an amazing result with minimal tools!

Been waiting for someone to paint that section. Looks so good! I bet the lighter colors would look even better with the contrast

Love the videos. Nice to see you never skip a beat even when things weren’t so good. Respect!

Excellent video. I was a car painter all of my professional life. Your material choice is spot on.

Dude...I was actually thinking about this when I saw your last light overlay video. I was thinking "man I bed he's gonna paint his bumper something unique". I should have put money on it! I think the darker colors would look really good, like yours. If I did that to my white or an orange or red it would be too much. There's enough dark contrast between the grey metallic and black that it looks like a smooth transition.

That's absolutely incredible man. Fantastic job and even more wild from just being in a garage with some spray paint essentially. Love your videos dude

Came out decent! Looks way better. It’s coming along nicely brother.

Honestly way better than I thought. I'd like to see it on a different colored wrx

absolutely insane results, good job

I really like how you did that. Bet it looks even better in person than video. Especially when it all cures out. Excellent work bro.

thanks for showing this, im actually planning on doing something like this with my VA fog light bezels. I am really grateful for the tip with abrillo pads and adhesion promotor!

Great job, I personally like the subtle change on this darker color.

Top notch work man!!! Keep up the good work!

my man knew you would end up diving straight into this car!

That looks really good! Now I’m thinking about doing that instead of sanding down the top part. I think even with paint matched flairs it would look really good. Awesome video man 👌🏾🔥

looks better than i expected

Now that’s freaking impressive! I wonder how this would look on a lighter colored car. I’m so in now on your new build despite me not liking the VB, but knowing your incredible clean taste you might just win me over on this car. Keep it up!

Looks AWESOME! That came out way better than I expected.

Looks good. Nice attention to detail. The first mod for anyone that buys that car has to be addressing the unbelievably terrible looking rear bumper. It's really my only issue with the car in OEM form. 👌👌

Super original of you! Love it!

Great tips to get that showroom looking finish DIY style. Thank you!

You did great! And explained everything well enough to give confidence to those of us without auto paint experience. Most useful vid in years for me, as I'm planning to piano black my lip kit and repair my 15-16 sti front lip that iced a raccoon 😅. THANK YOU! 🤜💥🤛

Great video as always! General practice, get a bottle of degreaser and use it instead of the water and soap. Also get a tack wipe or a can of compressed air instead of blowing on it. Gotta do what you gotta do though, I respect it 😂

This is awesome dude. Well done and I will definitely be trying this

Being 5 mos old, I doubt I'll get any responses, bit we'll see. Basics: I'm also MGM, I've never hated the plastic, but only reason is the texture. Plain, unpainted smooth plastic would be terrible. I won't waste space on my entire paint plan - which I believe will cause a lot of "why didn't I think of that?" reactions...but it involves some unique approaches. One, a guy in Japan finally did it: painted his plastic body-match white WITHOUT SANDING it smooth. It is incredibly unique, and something I've pondered 100x. And two, another idea is what I call "Embrace the Plastic!"...and involves going full gloss black, leaving the texture alone (with some areas MGM to tone it down a bit.) As I noted, the guy in JPN was the first I'm aware of that did color over texture, and I value such creativity, even bravery. Now since seeing it, I'm almost certain I'm doing it. MGM can, I believe, get away with bold gloss black fender arches & garnish. I have gloss black wheels, as well, like the VIZIV had with its black CF arches, rockers, etc. I'm just thinking it might be too bold. (Wish I still had my PhotoShop skills...lost them years ago after some projects were done.) I have purchased an entire second set of "plastic", minus the rockers. It sucks the one arch off eBay has a gouge in it. It can't be used for anything but a fill/sand/paint.

I just ordered some of those color matched aero dynamics fender flairs, can't wait to get em' I got an ice silver wrx so those fender flairs really show!

Nice work! Love all the videos. The car looks awesome! I have WRB vb, so will probably keep the bumper as is. You helped me a lot with the previous switchback light install as well.

Wow, that came out freaking awesome! Good job on that, it looks hella better 💯

Looks as good as it would professionally done. Great job doing more with less.

Dang! You did an excellent job 👏

Man you are always right on time with you videos! I am planning a mod that will require some paint and this video has helped me out tremendously big dawg! Thank you buddy!

Damn dude. This looks slick!

Came out nice! I might try to paint mine now thanks for the video and info 💪

this is a great idea Looks awesome

glad ur building up the VB, u should take the STi trans from your VA and put it on the VB, with the FA 24 that would sucha an awesome build that what the car needs. huge ups on this!

Can you make a video on how to remove the bumper. I would like to do mine too but I do not k ow how to remove it . 🙏🏻

Looks good!! More refined may be the term. Mine is World Rally Blue. Definitely would see the difference there. Another awesome video Cody!!

Two words well done!

Excellent work!

Beautiful job!

Looks awesome! Nice job

Awesome job ! Thanks for giving us another option on a way to paint the bumper. Here’s a though I’ll hire u to paint mine . It came out great . Just got word eta for mine will be sometime in April . (3 months from order date) .

Welp , I know what I’m doing in the summer 😂

Awesome!!! 👍🏼😊👍🏼

Looks great on your color! Would look terrible on my white one haha

That looks awesome. I wonder how it would look as a different color.

Looks great! Just a lil tip for next paint job..wear a mask/respirator and lay some water on the ground so when the over spray hits the ground it doesnt stain the floor. Other than that fantastic job!

Looks sick!!

looks great dude!only thing would like to see other colors do that cuz idk if sapphire blue would look good like that

Should have used some of the clear cloat on the taillight overlays to get rid of the flat look you mentioned. Looks great though dude!

Great job!

Great job bro!

Wow good job !!

can you do the front end next like the middle one between the fog lamps? would be awesome

That looks great

Nice work, thanks.

This looks way better. Have you thought about making the rest of the plastic a gloss black, maybe even OEM CBS? edit: Do you think this method would work for painting my VA OEM lip kit?

Looking good🔥

Nice work

Umm excuse me sir I need to to come touch up my VA bumper 😂😂

I have a Limited VB in the same color (MGM). I hate the way that big section of plastic collects dirt/dust/water drops/etc. and def want to do this too.

Looks good.

So how long did this whole process take from painting to drying

How many cans of paint and clear do you think it would take to do the rear bumper and flares? Thanks!!

hello I have wrx 2022 2500 km I would like to ask if I drive the car normally i feel some roughness in third gear (3rd) sometimes Is this normal? Are all vb wrx the same?

Still dislike the design. But this definitely helps with it. Great job as usual man

Nice

Nice job

Hey…👋 thank you for the video, idk if you will be painting the textured portion of the bumper later bit wanted to ask your advice on the method to sand the textured plastic? Thank you in advance

Thanks!🤜💥🤛

Now if you paint the rest the plastic gloss black, it would look really good.

Hey what part of PA are you in? I'm in Voorhees NJ and have a 2018 WRX same color as your old one.

I am definetly doing this but not sure why you didnt wear a respirator.

Should have removed tow cover and painted seperately.

Any tips for doing this with the ceramic white?

Good great bro!!!

Does the black section separate from the rest of the bumper? Mine got heavily scratched

I need a ride in that thing

Nice work, but dude no respirator mask? Breathing in that 2K clear is not a good idea. The fan is not enough.

I have a magnetite grey and will not paint match, with the black and grey there is not much contrast anyway so it's not that noticeable. If I had a lighter colour, I would paint all the textured bits. But I'd leave them textured, not sand it off.

Looks good! O_O

now the fender flares!

Did you do any cut or polish after?

Still not fan of the rear t but good job look way better

There is nothing that can be done to make the rear end look any better. At the end of the day until they come out with aftermarket taillights, it will always look like a civic.

how long did it take to sand it? Looks awesome btw!

You think this look good in solar orange ? Really considering doing this

No mask or respirator on you must of been so high at the end of this video 🤣

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!!!

nice men i like i wana try !

What about the rear tow cover?

Please wear a respirator

You need to wear a mask with that clear coat just FYI for next time.

Do not waste your time doing this get it done professionally.

still ugly car

looks sick not on white but sick

I think the fender flares look terrible on all the colors EXCEPT the magnetite gray. It looks really nice with the gray almost like a wide body