I was scraping it all the time when the whole lip was there...after trimming it as seen in the pictures there is rarely scrapage...as for painting it, you have seen my car before, its two tone, part kevins color, part flat black, half of the bumper is flat black if you look closely so I plan on painting the lip/splitter to match the bumper ... pics with a real digi cam will come after I finish sanding and painting... Are you coming to either the York meet or VA meet Rob?