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fazzy

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I have a carbon fibre bonnet on my 32 and it's looking tired & faded. Got a detailer mate to give it a buff

up but nothing he had could bring it to life.We decided maybee the resin/clearcoat was too tuff to cut into?

Its an east bear bonnet & is staying on reguardless but it would be nice to bring it back to its former glory!

any ideas? :)

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Silent Proficient

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the only way you'll get it back to former glory is blocking it back with wet and dry, start with 1200 then go to 2000. Dont worry bout the wet and dry remving the shine thats okay. The get some ultrafine cuting compund then your bonnet will look new again :(

Silent Proficient

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Its not all that hard if your keen do do it, ill explain in greater detail. It will take you about half a day.

Things do not come easy modifying cars, im willing to help anyone thats willing to give it ago. I HATE lazy people!

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I have a carbon fibre bonnet on my 32 and it's looking tired & faded. Got a detailer mate to give it a buff

up but nothing he had could bring it to life.We decided maybee the resin/clearcoat was too tuff to cut into?

Its an east bear bonnet & is staying on reguardless but it would be nice to bring it back to its former glory!

any ideas? :(

well at work what we do to carbon f bonets and other pieces is chuck a coat of clear on them then it will be as shiny as the rest of the car... and i think it looks sick .... good luck :D

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I assume carbon fibre bonnets are made with epoxy resin. Could be polyester or vinylester but I doubt it.

Anyway the point is that epoxy is subject to fairly rapid UV degradation. If your bonnet is just carbon/epoxy without a substantial UV fliter coating on top this is probably what's happened to it. The boaty types deal with this all the time,which is why marine clear coats are absolutely stuffed with UV filters. Not knowing anything about car finishes I can't recommend anything offhand but with CF becoming so popular this is likely to be an increasingly common problem. Anyone got anything they can add?

Oh yeah,properly cured epoxy is also a bastard to sand.

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