Civic EG

how to repair carbon fibre???

ive now got a few cracks in the bonnet due to my miss-hap so i was wondering if theres anyayy i can fix it?

thinking about just painting it black to match the car

is it the carbon itself or the clear?

ummmm, well its abit fraid at the edge and has some cracks in it...

so its abit of both i think

well looking at the pics you could mould some strips of fiberglass behind it and shape it and then hopefully that will fill it so after that you can put a layer of laquer over it. Ill go and have a look at the pic again and maybe give a diff opinion. No doubt Teal will give you a better answer

Clearcoat the piss out of it. Its never gonna look the same again, but in the mean time just spray the hell out of it.

When I first installed hood pins on my other car the hood went to shit in the spots I had to drill out. I just masked off the area and clearcoated it, didnt turn out half bad.

so just lots of clear coat and paint the bonnet to match the car...

what about the bits that are fraid??? just sand it down lightly???

reclear it that should fix it

vtec_gloucester wrote:so just lots of clear coat and paint the bonnet to match the car...

what about the bits that are fraid??? just sand it down lightly???

Repaint it if you want, just clearcoat might satisfy you. Like I said before though...the hoods never gonna be the same.

Since most carbon hoods have a uv protected epoxy on them you might notice some sun damage if you just clear it haha but i definately will never look the same.

You could also go the expensive route and with 2 side tape around the damage side, some plastic, some uv epoxy and vacume seal it. Wouldn't look the same but it would be as strong as it was before. I have never done it personally but we are doing composite repairing at school next year haha I read up on it a bit.

yeah just sand it down and reclear it

yeah just sand it down and reclear it
the cracks may not go away but it should look alot better tho
i have some pics of a cf trunk i did some body work on and recleared as soon as this site allows me to post pics i will show you

here is the after pics,
it had few cracks and chips on the edge of it and i just added body filler and i covered them up w/ the black stripe on the edge, ill try to find some before pics

so just notmal body shop filler and paint it to match the colour of the car... that'll work fine will it???

with a hammer

Get one of those car bra things

Would cover it up, pretty rare over here and would stop any more stonechips