Painting Plastics?

[mrfixit63740]

What about the rotted ones? My front fender is brown and flaky. I would love to try this! I just don't get much time so I thought painting would be faster if it worked, but what the hell its already failed once so I guess hours of labor are inevitable.

[Yamahauler]

This takes 20 minutes to do!! Mine was the exact same as yours, brown and flaky, that later comes off in a dust and its actually kind of fun to do. Makes a huge differance. On that animation you can see a layer of paint someone put on, the brown crusty stuff, and then where i started razer blading.

Go try it now! Its awesome.

[crd00]

I dont like the idea of scrapping the fender with a razor blade, theres a very high risk of ruining it, if you scape it on too much of an angle you could dig into it, and you'd have to do hours of wet sanding like you said, so if your fenders are in good shape theres not a lot of work to paint them and clear coat them and the final product is a lot better looking

[Yamahauler]

If you do one of each, in a year, see which one looks better. There is not a "very high risk" of ruining it. If you dig in a few times, its not a big deal, you can hardly tell. You will learn not to do it.
You dont have to do hours of sanding, you could leave it just after you scrape it and it doesnt even look bad.

[mrfixit63740]

:wondering Here are some shots I took of a test run on the front fender. First I dry sanded the part on the right with 320 grit, then wet with 800 grit, and finally wet with 1000 grit. I did this in about 10 minutes. Is it going to be best to put a clear coat on the plastic if I go this direction or some sort of auto or motorcycle wax? I have no idea. Hmmmmmm...

P.S. look at the big scratch/gouge on it, what the hell do I do to fix that? I don't think it could be filled unless its painted. Its pretty deep but not all the way through.

[mrfixit63740]

well crap! You can't even see it in the pic, lol
But its there.

[mrfixit63740]

OMG, ok it is visible in the third pic but kind of far away looking, but ya get the point! lol

[N5HNY]

Does this work on Honda Red plastics ? I think it would.

[Air-cooled-R]

My Wal-Mart sell plastic clear coat with the automotive paint. I guess for like plastic bumpers and stuff like that on newer cars

[mrfixit63740]

My Wal-Mart sell plastic clear coat with the automotive paint. I guess for like plastic bumpers and stuff like that on newer cars

But I wonder if it is flexible enough to resist cracking and peeling with all the movement and vibration on an atv?

[crd00]

The only way I can see to fix that gouge is to melt some plastic down into it, then put some fiberglass filler on it and sand it down. I did that before with my 200m fender so it will work

[mrfixit63740]

Can you even get yellow plastic close to the tri-moto color?

[crd00]

do you have any old yellow fenders lying around? If you do cut a strip of plastic off of that and then melt that down into the crack.

[85hondaatc125m]

You have to put a coat of primer for plastics on underneath the clear or on top of your base coat so it wont rinkle and the paint will bend when your plastics bend. You have to use the same name clear as your paint or it wont go on right and your paint job will be runined

I know this post is old and all, but soon I am going to be painting my plastic so I have a few questions, what do you mean by primer over your base coat, by base coat do you mean the original OEM paint that is on the plasic? SO do I lay down primer on my sanded platsic, and then paint it, and then clear coat it? Thanks, I just dont want to do anything wrong.

[*Kev-Bo*]

i just refinished my plastic and all i did was used a 220 wet dry sand paper at first then used a 1200 grit then finished with some cutting polish turns out GREAT no paint needed but LOTS of sanding