how to make plastic shiney?

[450RGNCC]

I have some 250r fenders that were bought brand new in 1998, but now they are a little faded and scratched. I was wondering if it would work to sand them down to a really fine grit (like 1200) and then use a heat gun to melt it and make it shiney. I know this technique works well with newer plastics, but will it still work with the older stuff? thanks.

[TheFontMaster]

That will work just fine, but be carefull with the heat, you don't want to melt them.

[Lolli2]

Just for shine we use foaming tire cleaner. Seems to work great. You might want to use it after you do your sanding.

[450RGNCC]

Yah, i use Formula 2001 for shine, but I want the actual plastic to be really shiney, this has been a long project and I want everything to look really nice when im done.

[crazycray200]

people say use floor polish but there is somthing in it that scraches them

i use wd-40 i brings them out really nice

[450robot]

last week i took a propanch to my fenders where i had gashes from crashing, i lightly made swirl motions over the erea and waited to see it liquify a lil, then i would back off, put cool water on, then repeat

it works incredibly well, more than %90 of the gashes

just be careful on factory stock plastics, when the get to hot, they turn brown, and quickly too

[300extreme#8]

i get a towel and wet it down with paint thiner, and get a dry towel, and wipe hard with wet towel, and then come back over it with the dry one, i know it works well on white so it should work on any i think,

[drifterx]

Plastic Renew too, might help if you want to shell out a little bit. :o

[Warnerade]

sand those babies down...use a car polish and a buffer to buff the scratches out, then take a torth over it very lightly to shine up.

[Mike[socal]]

Mop n Glo works good for plastics. It stays on much longer than the Armor All type products.

[luvmyex]

Originally posted by Lolli2
Just for shine we use foaming tire cleaner. Seems to work great. You might want to use it after you do your sanding.


Thats what i use and it works better than any thing else ive tried.spray on let it sit 10 -20 mins then wipe any excess off. Any time ive seen plastic sande it turns white. so watch that.

[03CAN]

PC Racing makes "Plastic Renew" and that stuff does wonders. Requires several layers/stages of sanding/treatment but is well worth it and gets better every coat. I wish I took before/after's with it on my yellow Z400, made it look new. Once its on there, its on there too, where as this car polish / tire cleaner wouldnt be as permanate. I had mine a year, then I touched it up with a super fine sand and 1 coat of the PC stuff and it looked just as good as the first time It was done. I have also used it on black cr250 fenders, and got great results too.

[Yfz450dan]

I use armeral!

[weekendrider]

i work on boats and we use rubbing compount to restore color and take out fine scratches so u may be able to use rubbing compound then wax with a good paste wax and it should shine like new but u may want to try on a spot that isent seen much

[300ex_#387]

ARMORALL.......:macho

[450RGNCC]

i am going to try a few different methods in an obscure spot, to see what works best, i would like to just use armorall om my white fenders, but there is a stain on them from the coal dust that I ride in, so im going to try the paint thinner first. thanks for all of the suggestions.