| Author | Message | ||
     Moxin |
I have due to a mistake used Mr Cap Wheelcleaner on the fairings. aOfc it was the bugremover I where supposed to apply but both spraycans look identical. The fairings and cowlings showed white dots from the aerosol and cant be rubbed away, it seems ´like the clearcoat have been etched...It seems that changing the plastic parts or do a new paintjob on them seems like the only solution. Could you order the plastic parts OEM ? Il rather not repaint them since the bike is new....  What could the cost be? And no it isnt MR. Cappd...my car is. | ||
| Slypiranna |
While I am mostly lost in your writting...I managed to gather that you used a caustic agent on your plastics. Any Buell/HD dealer will have the parts book/numbers and they are not that pricey...thats why the insurance company likes this Model moreso than others. This fact was also part of the marketing ads. If I'm not mistaken, the 11's black "paintjob" is molded into the plastics...not a basecoat/clearcoat after the fact. I believe your owners manual covers this. You can, however, topcoat with auto style pigments if you prep properly...wetsand and seal, wetsand and basecoat, wetsand and clearcoat...finally, wetsand and buff. New plastics seem the most likely choice here. Good luck. | ||
| Kenneth |
Or you could try to polish the spots off with Novus....the product you are suppose to use on your Buell plastics. | ||
| Pizzaboy |
x2 on understanding what you were trying to write. proofreading and commas ARE your friend, my friend! yep sounds like a perfect opportunity to make your 1125 look different from everyone elses! if i was in your situation, i would paint it and make it look unique... there are a lot of paint schemes i would put on that bike. you asked(i think) if buell sells those fairings... they do. i have already had to replace the front air dam fairing thanks to its ritualistic 'break-in-bike-drop'. | ||
| Moxin |
THanks for the response guys, I really appreciate it! Sorry for the english though, next time I will try not to write and be in a hurry! Here we go again  I use to use my cars Mr.Cap Bugremover on my bike. (we all know how hard those can be to remove) So far that have worked well. Now I have used the wheelcleaner agent instead of the bugremover since the bottles look exactly the same. The Wheelcleaner according to the contents read on the bottle are 15-20% Phosphoric acid, a fairly weak acid. After some 30sec I realized what I had done and washed the cleaner agent away, leaving nice white spots and dots of which some where very small. Like an aerosol that landed on most of the bike but mainly on the fairings. I had a "polishing" expert there at my house trying to just polish it but that did not work. After reading this forum a bit more after my first post I have came to realize that the plastic isnt clearcoated or painted at all. So in theory you could just wetsand the damaged parts and then "just" polish them up again. Is this correct? If it would prove to be to hard to polish the fairing back to its original state then maybe buying a new one would be better? What would the cost be? The biggest problem in my opinion are that the matte part of the cowlings also have the white dots and cant be removed AND you can´t polish them. Maybe I would be better of to buy new ones.. I hope this post come through a little bit clearer. Cheers. PS. And yes, taking the opportunity to paint the bike a little more individually have crossed my mind since you can only order the bike in one color. DS | ||
| Xb984r |
Maxin,I would try to use a buffing agent before wet sanding,that will probably be enough. | ||
| Zac4mac |
Welcome Moxin Sweden, huh. I dare say your English is MUCH better than my Swedish. I'd have to use Babelfish or something. +2 on the fine rubbing compound. Z | ||
| Xbdude |
Definitely try to rub it with compound and then re-polish the area. I had a similar situation with my XB airbox cover (actually caused by the dealer's detail guy!). They got me a new cover, but I was able to make the spotted one look like new again. Good luck with it! | ||
| Doerman |
Fredrik lives close enough to Norway that he can be counted as a Norwegian.  Greit nok det Fredrik? Gratulere med 1125R'n da.  Hold deg unna UP saa godt du kan. (Message edited by doerman on May 26, 2008) | ||
| Tasmaniac |
Try toothpaste it's one of the finest cuting polishes known to man or Autosol if you need a slightly corser paste. Brett |
