Carbon fibre repair ?

[Jono400]

Anyone able to offer me any advice on the following, have been offered a used carbon fibre rear diffuser that has gained a bit off damaged to the lacquer as seen from the attached photo. Looks worse in the picture than it actually is but wonder if there is a cheap repair solution to this sort off damaged on carbon fibre material ? failing this would this particular finish accept a gloss black vinyl wrap or re spray ?

Any advice would be very much appreciatted.

John

[AB M2C]

A very cheap solution is to "paint" super glue over the damaged area. Won't look that great but the carbon will be sealed. To make it look good you need to take it to a shop, have them retouch the affected area, sand it flat then respray the entire diffuser would be my guess.

[Tinsta]

Try these guys - CarbonFibreRepair

[Jono400]

Okay thank you kinda suspected this would be the case, wonder if a small vinyl wrap repair to the effected area would look okay ? may just get the whole diffuser wrapped or resprayed just wondered if there was an easy repair with carbon material ?!

[Jono400]

Originally Posted by Tinsta

Try these guys - CarbonFibreRepair

Okay thanks will keep them in mind but would think the cost off repair plus postage both ways would just be a bit beyond the price off what the diffuser is worth, would be happy to spend maybe £40 or so which I would think May just cover the cost off a cheap vinyl wrap or re spray on the side ?

[tglazed]

It doesn't look like the carbon fiber has been damaged. It is hard to tell by the manufacturing process but either the clear coat would need to be sanded and resprayed (if that is what is damaged) or the resin is damaged and in this case, I am not sure how you would go about fixed that. I would think you could just sand it, tape off where you do not want resin to get on, pour resin in the damaged area, let sit and then pull up the tape. It probably wouldn't look very good and I probably wouldn't recommend this route.

[Jono400]

Okay thank you once again guys really do appreciatte the very helpful advice you have all given. I actually have the diffuser with me now and as the seller did say the damage is actually very little ie. Looks so much worse in the photograph. So okay I am going to sand the area down slightly and lay a small bit off carbon vinyl wrap over the affected area and feel sure this done right will be a good enough fix.

Next problem is finding a carbon fibre effect wrap in this particular shade / style , anyone seen anything on ebay that looks as if it could be a good match ?

[Jono400]

Sorry should have said that now I have the diffuser here with me can 100% confirm that its purely the lacquer that has cracked the carbon underneath is 100% intact.

[FPSCanada]

Bit of a ghetto fix, but you could always use clear nail Polish called shellac (Don't ask how I know). From what I understand its like a durable gel that lasts much longer than normal Polish, and IMO it kind of has the same "shine" as the clear coat on the cf diffusers. or you could try just normal clear nail Polish.

[Jono400]

Okay thanks again so much guys you really have been very helpful with your advice, tried a piece off carbon effect vinyl wrap I had laying around using just enough to cover the effected area but it just did not look acceptable so I will try the clear nail varnish method suggested will report back in due course to let you know how it went ?!