cozart02

I have a 92 Ducati with fiberglass fairings. Just normal riding causes all kinds of rock chips on the bottom behind the front wheel. I have had good results with color rite color and then color rite clear. The first couple of times I screwed up by trying to lay the paint on thick enough to make it shiny on its own. The problem is when you put down enough paint to make it shiny, you are an instant away from putting down enough paint that it runs. I have had much better luck putting on numerous lighter coats, and then polishing with 3M polishing compound. Power buffers are nice, but you get get yourself in trouble pretty quick with them. For a small area, I prefer to do it by hand. As are as the repair goes, I have had good luck with a product called Plastifix, made by Urethane Supply Company. It is a powder / liquid two part chemical weld that is easy to use, and I have never had it deteriorate, even when holding fasteners and load bearing tabs in place. It comes with this clay bar thing you mold over what you want to fix. I swear you could almost build a whole fairing out of this stuff. You can order it for about $35.00 on the companies web site.

Knoxhawk

I am new to the forum, baught a 05 hawk last week and have a little under 1000 miles on it. Then of course last night I high side my nice new bike and scratch and crack the front left fairing and broke off the footpeg. For repairing the cracks and scratched places would the plastifix or fiberglass jelly work better? I have a little experience with auto body work but dont want to screw it up with the difference of sheet metal to plastic base matieriel.