Bumper plugs close to Seneca Blue?

I bought my car used, and unfortunately, PO drilled holes in the front bumper to mount the plate brakes. For now, I'd just like to plug them with a body colored plastic plug, it's not perfect, but certainly would be less visible than the hole itself. Want to get something close to body color, because I'm going to get the front PPF'd, and even though its not perfect, Ill have the PPF over the plugs. I don't understand why anyone would spend this kind of money on a car and not find a plate bracket that doesn't require drilling holes in bumpers. . Front plates are vile.

Tried searching for M501 Bumper Plugs, or Seneca Blue Bumper plugs, but nothing came up. So, probably gonna have to pick a bumper plug for another blue car and hope it's mostly close. Or maybe just get one thats close and use a touch-up kit to paint it to match.

Not sure I want to have the front of the car fixed and sprayed to remove the holes, because with the flake in the blue, I can imagine that they might not match it correctly and I'll be more annoyed by the difference in shade, than I would have been with the bumper plugs.

I was thinking it's possible that maybe Ford Grabber Blue might come slightly close to Seneca Blue. Or Nitrous Blue off a Focus RS.

I suppose its possible a shop could fill it and paint the top to match, but it wouldn't last.

When I owned a blue BMW X1 briefly, dealer also drilled. I just purchased some black screws. Black mixed well with any color. Especially blue.

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sixtyy said:

When I owned a blue BMW X1 briefly, dealer also drilled. I just purchased some black screws. Black mixed well with any color. Especially blue.

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Not Seneca Blue, too light in color.

I would call this place. I've purchased from them several times in the past. These help. Thye don't list Lotus colors, but they should be able to make a special color.

Well, I called around to a few paint shops, and detail shops to see if they had any interest in trying to take care of this without repainting the entire bumper. I'm afraid they'd never match it properly and it would always be a slightly different color.

So, since the worst I can do is make it so I have to have the bumper painted, I'm going to take a crack at filling the holes with plastic filler, then cleaning, priming, touching up with color and then clear. Ordered the touch-up kit for M501, should arrive in a few days.

I've painted a car before from scratch, though it was just a white car, and we painted the entire car, so paint matching wasn't something we had to really worry about.

So, I figure the worst case scenario is I end up in a place where it looks like I just painted the screw heads M501 color.

So, I plan to do the following:

1. Remove the screws
2. Use heavy masking tape to mask off the bumper to prevent smears, streaking, unintentional scratchings.
3. Carefully use a very sharp exacto-blade to cut the crown of the damaged plastic off so that it's level with the surrounding plastic. I may use a RC car body reamer to create a slightly concave chamfered edge, taking care to remove the minimum amount of material.
4. Fill the hole with the plastic-weld filler so that its not QUITE to the to top of the hole.
5. Leave enough room so that I can put down the primer, and a color coat while leaving it still concave. May take a few layers. Then put thin clear coat layers on that to bring the coverage to slightly above level.
6. As it cures, the level may fall below the surrounding surface. So I'll add another layer if required so it's slightly above the rest.
7. Then remove the tape, and wet-sand with 5000grit till its level, and polish.

With any hope it should be visible only on close examination, but not really visible from 5ft or more away.

This is what I have to start with. Stupid previous owner for mounting a front plate. $100k+ car and can't be bothered to buy a bracket that mounts from underneath.