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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 30 2011, 04:39 PM (587 Views) | |
| rowland | Mar 30 2011, 04:39 PM Post #1 |
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Advice please! Is it possible to polish out a deep scratch on my front mudguard. The mudguard is about 2mm thick and the scratch about 0.5mm deep. Could I carefully sand it down and then polish the surface to a shine or is the plastic only shiney due to treatment of its surface? Thanks Rowland (GPZ500S) |
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| Garry.L | Mar 30 2011, 06:15 PM Post #2 |
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You could remove the scratch with some wet and dry but this would remove the gel-coat finish, so you'd need to either re-laquer it or just repaint the whole guard. |
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| rowland | Apr 2 2011, 08:51 AM Post #3 |
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Thanks for the reply - you use the term gel coat finish, the mudguard looks like its solid plastic molding and not like grp with a layer of gel coat on the top. Having said that is it plastic with a shiny coating or just its been polished - if it has a special shiney coating then its best left well alone as you suggest. OR - should I get a replacement mudguard? Rowland |
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