The paint on my black car is getting tired along with my C.F. hood. So I'm planning on getting it painted. I was wondering if it was possible to paint my carbon fiber hood to match the new paint job. My concern is that the hood might be too flexible and that the paint might crack.

 

On my old Eclipse GST I painted the CF hood silver to match the car. I only owned the car for about 3 months after that, but the paint was fine and didn't crackle.

 

Piant it, nothing will happen. Just make sure its prepped good and all the pervious clear coat is off.

 

we painted our cf hood and it turned out fine. All we did was just sand it down, primer and then paint.

 

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Ahhh...need to work on the fitment

 

Sun down here in the south is brutal on carbon fiber; cracked my VIS CF hood within two years so I decided to paint mine. It was fine. Just mke sure you wet sand to get any overcoating off (I didn't fine tune one tiny spot and it was a little rough but not too noticable).

 

A/C topic man

 

you are fine to paint it. Just prep it right.

 

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Fer Reals...Anyone else got any pics?

 

make sure the old clear is removed and your good to go

 

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follow Lusers guidelines and it will come out looking good

 

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hood sits fine, it was just open

 

cuz at one day paint and body after they paint the car they bake it. will my hood be able to withstand the heat?

 

just paint it.

 

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our car was done @ 1 DAY

 

i've seen so many cars with painted cf hoods , any good body guy will know how to treat it and prep it and add flex additive if need be

 

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Tight. Cuz my mom works at the corporate office at one day paint so we get a mad discount like around half off. they take good care of us there.

 

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mine is like tha two when it's open, just propped up in the back.

 

remeber to shoot several coats of primer on it or the color will be off compared to the feneders ect.

 

 

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Tight. Cuz my mom works at the corporate office at one day paint so we get a mad discount like around half off. they take good care of us there.</TD></TR></TABLE>

they did a real good job on the paint and it just cost us less than $500. We did all the body work and sprayed it w/primer our selfs. we saved like $1200