Rear Hatch Visor Polishing

Cillu · December 22, 2010, 1:37am

Hey guys, I recently got a rear hatch visor from my dad’s friend, but it’s scratched to hell.

I was wondering on how to approach renewing this thing. Can I just sand it down and then put plastic polish on it like I’m renewing one pieces?

Here’s a couple pics of it:

90_DA · December 22, 2010, 5:16am

that looks bad. did you already try polishing it??

Cillu · December 22, 2010, 7:15am

No I haven’t as I wouldn’t want to make it worse than it already is.

INTEG · December 22, 2010, 9:22am

Wet sand it using 2000 grit. then buff it and polish the shit out of it. May take more than 2 days plus to get it nice and clean. have fun LOL.

da6xsi06 · December 22, 2010, 11:11am

ok take a quick trip to autozone and buy 5 things…

1000 grit wet sandpaper
1500 grit wet sandpaper
2000 grit wet sandpaper
quality rubbing compound.
Muguirers plastic polishing wax to protect your finish.

ok start with the lowest grit paper and make sure you have a running source of water at all time. and you rub in one dirrection only with each grit as you go up and spend about 30 min on the 1k grit rubbing it sideways. the longer you spend on each grit the better results you will get. reason you need to rub in 1 direction is you dont want swirlz on it so no circles.
then rub up and down with the 1500 grit, take as much time with it as you want. keep the water on it also.
last the 2000 just really polishes it up for you so rub it sideways, again take your time remember its not a race.
then after you dry it apply the rubbing compund to take out the cloudy look , then try the plastic polishing wax to keep it protected fromthe sun and other natural elements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsHHBk-hZzk

I did this on ly jdm 1pc headlights and they look brand new, I did look up vids on youtube on how to polish headlights so its pretty much the same thing.

billy_craven · December 22, 2010, 5:41pm

i agree with da6xsi06 i work at abody shop and i do things like that all the time…a quick tip use sopy water helps… and it will keep from the paper geting gumed up not that it will with the plastic but makes it easyer…should not take u any time at all… I just dont agree to going to autozone…ADVANCE is the way to go…

Cillu · December 22, 2010, 10:15pm

Thanks everyone. You guys are awesome.

da6xsi06 · December 26, 2010, 3:13pm

let us know how it turned out and post pics.

Cillu · April 23, 2011, 2:55am

Completely forgot about this thread!

I got around doing it about a month ago. I used 600 -> 1000 - > 1500 grit. I didn’t have 2000 grit so I just used what I had.

Here are the results…

In some pics, there are specs of dust cause my parking lot is kinda dusty. Other than that, I think it turned out pretty well.

90_DA · April 23, 2011, 3:27am

looks good. lets see the rest of your car.

Cillu · April 26, 2011, 9:44pm

Here are a couple of crappy cellphone pics of the car, the quality doesn’t do justice. I’ll take better pictures later with an actual camera.

I didn’t really go all out on my old db1 cause I knew I would eventually sell it, but I’m planning to keep this one forever so I’ve got lots of plans for this beast!

da6xsi06 · April 27, 2011, 5:55am

wow the visore came out really good, they also accent your car really well to.