I garage my car every day and night unless im driving it and when im not in the car I am constantly staring at it. NO ONE touchs my shit! But theirs been a few occasions where I havent been able to keep an eye on the car at all times and I SWEAR TO GOD EVERYTIME I LOOK AT THE CAR THEIRS A NEW CHIP OR SCRATCH!!!
Basiclly my question is I have Carbon Fiber Hood but theirs small chips and scratchs in it what can be done? I heard of some people re-freshing them how?
carbon fiber hoods are easily chipped or scratched. The original jell coat that is applied to it is soft. Its not like the clear coat that comes on paintjobs,
my cf hood has a lot of chips from driving, also minor scratches from people touching the hood and rubbing their fingers down it, like they have never seen one before… -.-
anywho, you can either sand down the jell coat(very minimally) until the chips go away(but bad thing is your thinning down the protective jell coat)
OR
what a lot of people do is get there hoods clear coated by a paint shop using the clear coat from regular paintjobs. That clear coat last longer and doesnt fade like the jell coat.
-karlo
well, im currently working on my friends eg cf hood that he just picked up. it was all oxidized and stuff. i took it to school to try to buff it out but the previous owner sprayed a rattle can clear coat over the oem one so i had to sand it down and re clear coat it. the hood has tons of scratches, cracks, and chunks of clear coat missing. basically what you have to do is sand it with like a 400 grit dry sanding, prep it real good and re clear it with like some gentec clear. carbon fiber hoods are also the hardest to paint because the carbonfiber contains this chemical like sylicone and itll mess up your paint job so you end up having to apply like 4 coats of clear, cut it with 600 grit wet and spray it again with another 4 coats. hope this helps…
[QUOTE=iRockTheDA9;2095126]carbon fiber hoods are easily chipped or scratched. The original jell coat that is applied to it is soft. Its not like the clear coat that comes on paintjobs,
my cf hood has a lot of chips from driving, also minor scratches from people touching the hood and rubbing their fingers down it, like they have never seen one before… -.-
anywho, you can either sand down the jell coat(very minimally) until the chips go away(but bad thing is your thinning down the protective jell coat)
OR
what a lot of people do is get there hoods clear coated by a paint shop using the clear coat from regular paintjobs. That clear coat last longer and doesnt fade like the jell coat.
-karlo[/QUOTE]
This is somewhat true, but you are a little wrong on the gel coat part. really gel coats are paints on steroids. They have much better impact and UV protection than paints do. They also can be applied much thicker than paint, and offer much more protection to the resin than just paint alone.
The problem is manufacturers use low grade clear coats that chip easily on the carbon hoods.
OP what you want to do is sand down, with around 320 grit and don’t worry about getting into the gel coat, they are pretty tough and the layer of gel coat should be very thick in comparison to the paint.
Once you have removed the clear coat wet sand to 400 then re-clear the hood. it will be as good as new.
hope that helps