super cool people, honest work, and the prices are honestly amazing for the quality you're getting. My car came out looking way cleaner than before. You can tell they actually care about the work they do. Definitely coming back if I ever need anything again. Definitely would recommend these guys
Collision & Paint
San Bernardino auto paint that matches the factory finish
Bumpers, panels or the whole car — sprayed in a downdraft booth by a second-generation painter and blended so nobody can find the repair.
Mon–Fri 9 AM–4 PM · Sat 9 AM–1 PM · 446 W Orange Show Ln, San Bernardino
The short version
What auto paint refinishing is
Auto paint refinishing is repainting all or part of a vehicle with a basecoat/clearcoat system: the panel is stripped or sanded, primed and sealed, sprayed with a color-matched basecoat and a urethane clearcoat, and baked in a spray booth. Partial refinishing — a bumper, a hood, a door — is blended into the neighboring panels so the new paint is indistinguishable from the original. A full repaint recolors or restores the whole car, including the door jambs when it's a color change.
- Platinum Finishing Systems downdraft booth, built to NFPA 33 and ETL-listed
- A second-generation painter on the gun
- Factory code, baked spray-out card, blend into the next panel
- Door jambs sprayed on every color change
- Photo updates while your car is in the booth
Where it starts
When you need paint
One panel or the whole car? Most paint work here starts as one of these.
Bumper or single panel
A parking-post scuff, a keyed door, a bumper somebody else resprayed that never matched. We refinish the panel, blend it into its neighbors, refit the trim.
Multi-panel and collision refinish
Every repaired or replaced panel gets the same prime, seal, base and clear, then a blend. When it's part of a covered claim, the refinish goes on the insurance estimate and Vasken handles the adjuster.
Collision repairFull repaint and color change
The whole car, in its original color or a new one. A color change means door jambs, trunk jamb and gas door get sprayed too.
Peeling clear coat
Inland Empire sun cooks clear coat until it chalks and flakes, roof and hood first. If the clear is lifting, polish won't save it — the panel gets refinished.
Want a color change that isn't permanent?
Peel Clear sprays like paint in the same booth, covers the jambs, and peels off in sheets when you want the factory color back.
Peel Clear color changeNot sure what it needs?
Text photos of the panel in daylight and the paint-code sticker in the door jamb. Vasken writes a preliminary estimate.
Text us photos
Process
How a refinish goes through the booth
Five stages, same order for one bumper or the whole car.
Color match
The factory code from the door-jamb sticker, then the car itself — one code can have several variants. A test card is sprayed, baked and held against the car in daylight.
Prep
Wash and degrease. Trim, handles and lights come off where they need to, so no tape line hides under a badge. Sand, feather, filler where needed, block, mask.
Prime and seal
Corrosion primer on bare metal, primer-surfacer over the sanding scratches, a guide coat and a second block sand to prove the panel is flat, then sealer.
Base, clear, bake
Thin basecoats with flash time between them, pearl or metallic mid-coats when the formula calls for them, then urethane clear, baked in the downdraft booth.
Cut, buff, reassemble
Nibs wet-sanded out and polished to factory texture, so the repair doesn't read glassier than the panel beside it. Parts back on, daylight walk-around.
On the estimate
What's included
- Color match from the factory code and a baked spray-out card
- Blending into the adjacent panels
- Door jambs, trunk jamb and gas door on color changes
- Trim, handles and lights removed and reinstalled
- Bake in a sealed, filtered downdraft booth
- Wet-sand and polish to factory texture
- Photo updates from the booth
- Daylight walk-around at pickup
Body work, replacement panels and fitment get their own lines on the estimate.
Why here
Who paints your car
- Armen, second-generation painter
His father painted cars. Armen has painted for Disney and Universal Studios as well as custom cars — and the painter who does the custom work does your bumper.
- A real downdraft booth
Our Platinum Finishing Systems downdraft paint booth is built to NFPA 33, the national fire-safety standard for spray-painting operations, and our equipment is ETL-listed by Intertek, an OSHA-recognized testing laboratory.
- Match first, then blend
A baked spray-out card checked in daylight picks the right factory variant before the car sees a gun.
- Photos while it's in the booth
You'll get photos of your car in the booth before you think to ask for them. If the old paint hides a surprise, you hear first.
Family-owned. Armen paints; Vasken writes the estimate. Meet both of them.
Straight answers
Auto paint questions
Can you match my factory color exactly?
We match from the factory code and the car itself — the same code can have several factory variants. We spray a test card, bake it, compare it to the car in daylight, and blend into the neighboring panel. That's how a repaired door doesn't look like a repaired door.
Why do you need to paint the panel next to the damaged one?
Blending. Even a perfect match can show a faint edge in sunlight when it stops at a panel gap, especially with metallics and pearls. Fading the color into the next panel and clearing the whole panel makes the transition invisible. It's standard on a proper refinish and why a "just the bumper" job sometimes includes fender time.
Do you paint door jambs on a full repaint?
If you're changing color, yes — door jambs, trunk jamb and gas door, otherwise the old color shows every time a door opens. That means doors and panels come off or get fully masked, which is the difference between a real color change and a quick exterior scuff-and-shoot.
How long before I can wash or wax it?
Baked clear is safe to drive home. Hand-wash only for the first few weeks and skip wax, sealant and brush car washes while the clear finishes curing — we'll give you the timeline for your job at pickup.
Is it a real paint booth?
Yes — a Platinum Finishing Systems downdraft booth built to NFPA 33, the national fire-safety standard for spray-painting operations, with equipment ETL-listed by Intertek. A sealed, filtered, heated booth is what keeps dust out of the clear and cures it hard.
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What people say after pickup
The team at R2R did incredible work, my bumper fit great. They really went above and beyond my expectations to make sure everything was lined up and secure.
5.0 stars · 56 Google reviews (September 2026) · Read them on Google
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Send us the panel in daylight.
Photos of the damage and the color code sticker in the door jamb get you a faster preliminary estimate.