Scufffed Splitter.

[Goders172]

As above really scuffed the front of my Ktec carbon splitter against a curb last night. Any advice on polishing out the scuffs. they are reasonably deep in places. :dead:

Gutted.

 

[Jonny1*2]

pics of it? You could try polishing it i guess, but not sure if carbon fibre responds too well to that.

 

[Mostro]

I did the same on Saturday but since the scuffs are on the underside and you can't see them, b0ll0cks to it :clown:

 

[Goders172]

Yeah ill get some pics up tonight. Think it will need more than a hand polish. Machine polish may work?

 

[m4rkie23]

unlucky mate! hope it buffs out

 

[Ali]

Screwed boyo! Carbon splitters mark so easily!

 

[JD]

Not sure if this is of any help . . . but my splitter is scuffed to fook. I am going to sand it with wet and dry paper and then treat it with a decent back to black . . . !

 

[Jonny1*2]

Not sure if this is of any help . . . but my splitter is scuffed to fook. I am going to sand it with wet and dry paper and then treat it with a decent back to black . . . !

Thats an option i guess. Might need a few different grades of paper and go corse to fine. With the carbon fibre, if it has a gloss finish to it, you could try finishing it off with lacquer.

 

[Coby.]

Matte or Gloss Finish? My Gloss Splitter ended up looking completely toss after 25k Miles so now have a Matte Finish one on and I'll see how that fairs upto so many miles of Stone Chips etc.

 

[Goders172]

Yeah its gloss so im going to try giving it a rub down and then Re-clearcoating it and baking it in the oven ill post up pics if it works.

 

[Jonny1*2]

Yeah its gloss so im going to try giving it a rub down and then Re-clearcoating it and baking it in the oven ill post up pics if it works.

How? you must have a huge oven. Not sure what temp carbon fibre copes too.

 

[fil_b]

carbon normally has a lacquar on top

can try the wet sanding and polish that sanding marks out

 

[Goders172]

How? you must have a huge oven. Not sure what temp carbon fibre copes too.

Work has some mahoosive ovens mate. Not sure id get in the one at home lol. Would have to get it past the missus for a start.

Dunno about temps I will check, but as F1 cars use carbon fibre brakes im sure they can cope with a little heat.

 

[Goders172]

Well had a quick go at reparing it tonight. Will do it again properly at the weekend but wanted to see if it worked in principle.

BEFORE:

Pic doesnt really do the scratches justice. They are quite deep.

Sanded back the laquer with P1500 wet and dry, coloured the scratches in with Black permenant marker (a bit crap i know but actaully looks quite good), smoothed and re-laquered.

AFTER:

Quite pleased with the results but will do it again over the weekend to neaten things up as this was done in about 20 mins.

 

[Jonny1*2]

wow, from the after pic it doesn't look like there was any damage at all. If you didn't know it was there i'm sure you'd miss it. good job mate.

 

[Nik.g]

looks nice mate...

 

[Goders172]

wow, from the after pic it doesn't look like there was any damage at all. If you didn't know it was there i'm sure you'd miss it. good job mate.

Cheers mate - yeah pleased with the results, gonna do it again over the weekend though to tidy up as I ran out of laquer.