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Plastic mudguards
Topic Started: Mar 30 2011, 04:39 PM (587 Views)
rowland
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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?


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Rowland
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Garry.L
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rowland
Mar 30 2011, 04:39 PM
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)
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
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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?


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