carbon fiber help

[donniegst]

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[/URL][/IMG] So went out to my garage and found a latter against my hatch don't know how it fell on it but it did can someone give me a idea how to fix this

 

[donniegst]

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[NordicSaab]

Ouch. Is the crack all the way through the carbon fiber?

 

[bastarddsm]

I don't think that it is fixable to bring it back to pre incident state.

You can certainly structurally repair it, but cosmetically it's boned.

You'd have to fix the crack, and then lay a new piece of cf over the whole hatch and then try to get the resin on really really nice, then wet sand and buff it back out.

 

[Ejanes]

Yeah that's toast for looks unless you totally re- wrap over the existing cf, you can repair it and make it functional but that busted cf will always show unless you cover the entire hatch or just paint it

 

[donniegst]

Yea thought so fiberglass an paint it

 

[Ejanes]

might not even need to glass it, i would rough sand it in the crack, resin it, the sand the entire thing down and decide if you want to re cf it or paint it.

 

[Ejanes]

to be honest, it wouldnt be hard or even that expensive to re-wrap this in new cf, and the multi layer would probably make it strong as hell.

i know how to wrap carbon fiber, let me know if your interested and we can get it done in a weekend