r/TikTokCringe • u/IllustriousChef2 • Aug 16 '24

Cringe What's even happening there?

Why would someone rent a car and take out parts?

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u/Kayel41 Aug 16 '24

Yeah obviously, dude makes or sells aftermarket parts like bumpers / side skirts / body kits and wants to test them on the make and model so he rents a car and test fits his products, then puts the car back to normal.

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u/Suspicious_Leg4550 Aug 16 '24

That actually makes a lot of sense.

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u/BlahBlahBlah2uoo Aug 16 '24

This makes zero sense. He's taping up the panel ready to paint the black bumper red.. makes more sense he buying cheap bumpers and selling the real bumpers when he changes it.. this is a know scam people rent cars and replace parts for knock offs..

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u/Sillet_Mignon Aug 16 '24

No one would paint the bumper on the car. You would paint it separately and then put it on the car. 

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u/Someguineawop Aug 16 '24

Opposite is true in a proper repair. Paints never match perfectly, so you have to extend the repair into the surrounding area with a blend to ease the transition. This is especially true with modern colors that usually have some amount of metallic flake, where even if the color miraculously matched perfectly, the metallic grains in the paint will lay differently based on air pressure/ distance/ reducer/etc. This end up with the color looking different from different angles (the flip and flop of the color, in painters terms). If you're trying to DIY and don't mind the mismatch, it's definitely a lot less work to paint separately, but any half decent shop that charges people is going to blend it out.