i bought this hood from this guy for 75 bukks. fitment is good and everything except that the hood looks like this.



any idea what could i do to get it looking like carbon fiber again.

me n my cuzzin decided to wet sand it with 1200 grit and then wit 1500 and we recleared it wit 1 layer of clear coat to see how it came out. looks like we need more clear. it came out pretty good looking to me tho.




Modified by BlackEG6 at 12:30 PM 11/13/2005

 

buff? or sell to me for 50 bucks cuz its screwed.

 

Try that 3M Marine Wax that everyone on h-t uses.

 

ill try

 

take it to a detail shop and have them buff out the clear coat

 

and get some hood locks before its too late.

 

There is a post in the appearance/cosmetic forum on refinishing CF hoods. check in there.

 

wetsand and buff she will be good as new, if not then get it reclearcoated. my friend did this and it tunred out awesome

 

Here is my Fiber images hood after 1 year barely

After some 3m rubber compound.... Im gonna try the marine compound next.

Im very happy tho

what it looked like hours ago.



now im done doesnt look like a dried up cumshot ne more.. haha





WOW i can see the weave once again.

 

^^^ f- ing right dude. althou you can still see it. but better then nothing. add effect?


Modified by xCIVICx at 7:56 AM 10/30/2005

 

jdmlyfestyle has skillz

 

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any idea what could i do to get it looking like carbon fiber again.</TD></TR></TABLE>
To fix this problem here is what you do.
Wet sand the hood with some 1000 grit paper....then move on to some 1200.
The clearcoat the hood with 2 to 4 good coats of clear.........It will look brand new.

 

Fits real good though.

 

wetsand with 1200 then switch to 2000. then buff it out,use alot of water and go light with the sandpaper let it dry with the 1200 and take out any scratches with the 2000.make sure there is no deep scratches beafore you buff it.and go lightly with the sand paper.

 

lookin better

 

thankz imma try all your ideas and see how it turns out. ill keep yall updated

 

the best solution for this is to sand it down, and have it re-cleared with a UV protectant mixed in, if you don't your weave will star t fading pretty quick.

trust me i know from experience

i threw a CF hood in the trash cause it got so bad you couldn't see the weave anymore. the painter at my shop took it out and fixed it for me. it looked better than new after that, but the weave s a little disclored from the sun

 

unless the fiber faded then ur screwed

 

Sounds like ...

75 dollars + some elbow grease for a carbonfiber hod was a steal

 

Paint it. No one wants to see weaves of carbon strands beneath a fiberglass hardener. It looks tacky anyway. If you want a reccomendation on what primer to use, PM me.

 

^^^^^ he doesnt want to paint it,, he asked how to get it nice looking again. painting carbon is not good sometimes cause the epoxy coating isnt always smooth, kinda see waves sometimes when u paint cf in the finish.
But the idea is cool

 

my last resort is to paint it black if nothing else works

 

if u reclear it i promise it will turn out nice. thats your last resort.

 

Reclear it with like 3 or 4 coats of clear and that wont ever happen again.

 

wat kind of clear should i get? shouldnt i sand it down first b4 putting clear on there?