Civic EG

Well this is the Vis carbon fiber hood thats on the wifes EK. As you can see its a total mess! The hood itself is about 2 years old, and was waxed about every other month since its been on the car.

Basically this is what intense UV rays will do to C/F. The sun seems to always be out here in Arizona, and temps can go as high as 117*. The suns powerfull UV rays just pound on the finish all day long, and eventually does its damage.

Even though the hood only two years old, its looked like ass for about the past year. So now I'm gonna just have it clearcoated, nice and thick! When I wash the car, and the hoods wet, it looks brand new. Then as it dries, it looks like hell again. So I'm fully expecting that clearcoat will improve the situation.

I'll keep updating this thread with pics as the hood gets re-finished.

marine polish

eg8ferio wrote:marine polish

I dont think that polish will do what needs to be done. The gelcoat finish that the hood originally came with is basically gone. Its almost down to the C/F weave itself!! On the corner, up by the drivers side window, the weave is actually exposed a lil bit.

wow, thats looks bad dude!

look forward to the pics of when its sorted

yeah does look bad man! "Oh aint we lucky we never get sun here"

i was gonna say, that hood looks like dry carbon. new Clear is the only thing that's going to save it now

did you ever get this refinished?

D15kid wrote:did you ever get this refinished?

I've been slowly doing it myself with rattle cans. Its turning out pretty well, I've still got some wet sanding to do, and a few more coats of clear to go.

Did you see JDM-Chick's CF DIY in the Exterior section? This hood can look good as new when it is all done

teal_dx wrote:Did you see JDM-Chick's CF DIY in the Exterior section? This hood can look good as new when it is all done

Yeah, I've basically been doing the same thing. It still needs a ton of wet sanding, but I think its gonna look 100x better than what it did.

AddictiveAllMotor wrote:
I wash the car, and the hoods wet, it looks brand new. Then as it dries, it looks like hell again.

My hood is the same way but my hood is 12 years old and it needs alot of help.
I'm just not to sure how to fix my hood

Hereg6 wrote:

AddictiveAllMotor wrote:
I wash the car, and the hoods wet, it looks brand new. Then as it dries, it looks like hell again.

My hood is the same way but my hood is 12 years old and it needs alot of help.
I'm just not to sure how to fix my hood

look at jdm-chicks diy

sprying clear on my hood didn't work i've tryed that i also took my hood to fiber images who made the hood and they said clearing it wont work the fiber in the hood is messed up.I'm just going to paint my hood the color of my car

Hereg6 wrote:sprying clear on my hood didn't work i've tryed that i also took my hood to fiber images who made the hood and they said clearing it wont work the fiber in the hood is messed up.I'm just going to paint my hood the color of my car

yeah once the weaves on a cf hood gets messed up theres no saving it anymore... so yeah u got the right idea for just wanting to paint it...

daMn ur hood looks like one of my buddys before we did the fix up on it..all we did was sanded it down nice enough and recleared it and not with a rattle can..we used PPG clear coat and it came out looking Original