Ok... I'll give you one thing... it may not be second hand, but trust me when i say when OEM products comes straight from the manufacturer it's not primered. And when I say manufacturer I mean the origin of the ABS product, in China, and I believe there's two manufactuers in China, one's the Head Quarter and another smaller one, a branch, sort of like an expansion; sorry i don't remember the name of that company being that I worked for a wholesaler here in Ameriac. They are the ones who ship the ABS products to the wholesale corporations here in America. The products that you or you have seen body shops recieve went through another company before it even got to the body shop. A body shop is considered a retailer. Retailers purchase their merchandise from wholesalers and wholesalers purchase the merchandise from manufacturers. As you know Honda's or Acura's are considered imports and the "Original Equipment Manufacturer" are not made here in the US. If your body shop recieves real OEM parts they do not come primered. But there are factories here in the US that do make their own replicas of OEM parts, but they are not really OEM but considered just OEM replica replacement parts, cheaper for the everyday consumer. Your body shop could have just gotten a replica of an OEM product that was made here in the US reasons for it being cheaper than real actual OEM parts are produced another country. There are many different factories here in the US that makes replacement parts and they all have their own way of what the final product looks like and how it fits. I didn't say I worked for the manufacturer of every car company, but when it comes to ABS plastic parts I know where they originate from how they are produced and what the finished product looks like before being shipped out. There are many different types of cars that have their own manufacturer if you look at the fine prints around your car or any car that have ABS products on it such as side mirrors bumpers and more... you'll see that not every single part of that car came from one manufacturer but ordered from many different other manufacturers and then all put together. Just trust me, OEM parts do not come primered, maybe replicas do, but not OEM. How bout now you believe what I say now?

 

like i said... i've never seen any ABS part arrive w/ a primer coat

 

LOL :lmao: ok you got me there... probably over looked that

 

hehe... shnit happens

 

well what i was trying to say is that every Honda or Acura bumper i get in my shop (OEM direct from the local Honda Dealer With H DOT stickers on them and not from somewhere like Keystone) have not been raw. Toyota and Lexus on the other hand are Raw plastic. We us all Sikkens product at our shop so when we get a raw bumper we wipe it down with an antistatic cleaner, and scuff them with a grey scotch brite. for an adhesion promoter we have two different ones for different types of plastic. But on the honda, Acura, Volkswagen, and other primed bumpers we use a red scotch brite, put some sealer on it and then paint it. we don't use the adhesion promoter because it's not raw. oh and 95gsrgreen e-coat stands for electromagnetic coating.

 

yup.. all depends on the company it comes from. personally, the companies we use send all raw plastics. from the Cadillac DTS that came in a week ago, to my aunt's Lexus we did. even the Fords & Hondas we constantly have show up.