CF hood problem

[TropicalJewel]

Hello,
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions as to what I should do to fix my cf hood. It is about 15 months old and it has a gawd awful haze on it. I have been trying to e-mail the company for a solution but they are slow to respond and I want to get it fixed before it gets any worse. It is continuing to spread and it is sooo embarassing and upsetting. :cry: No one I know or taken the car to have seen anything like this.
TIA,
Monique
www.nm240sx.org

[PAnut240]

I don't know what to tell you bro, but I would have to put money on the clear coat being shitty. The sun tends to do that to things that are epoxy or resen based. Have you tried buffing it out? That may work but no promices. Hey, what base are you at. I noticed the base sticker in your windshield. Good luck.
Jim

[96twofourty]

It's probabally some sort of oxidation. The only thing that I could suggest is use a clay bar, then polishing compound, then wax it real good

[misnomer]

Looks like what turned my hood pink. . . I have no answers, but am damned interested in what could help.

[TropicalJewel]

I work out on Kirtland Air Force Base. I guess that the clear coat was piss poor and could not hold up against the sun up here. The company has yet to reply to my inquiry about a possible solution. I will go ahead and try the clay bar suggestion. It couldn't hurt. Thanks for your replies. I will post again if something works or if I hear anything from the company. If not I think I will just post a warning about the company.

Laterz,
Monique

[Phoen_x_s14]

Well I had scratches and small cracks on my hood during shipping, but since my oem hood was bent I just kept it. A friend of mine that works at a paint shop says, all you need to do is buff the layer of the clear coat that has the haze on it and apply more clear coat on it. Carbon fiber hoods should bend with out a problem the only thing that would actually crack is the clear coat. If the company didn't tell you that it would get damage by the sun pretty easy, then I would try to get them to pay for a new clear coat job. Best of luck tho.

[andrave]

yeah its just like a car with haze on the clear coat, just buff it off and reclear it. you can do it yourself or any paint shop should be able to handle it.

[S14DB]

Your hood does not seem to have any UV coating on it what so ever. If it does it should look brown/yellow in bright sunlight but sill black in indirect light. It realy looks like to me that there is no clear coat on it and the resin is cracking under the UV load.

I would buff it out even wet sand if it's really bad. Then goto a good paint shop and get a UV clear coat. Buff that and go back a month later for another coat for good measure. It will be cheaper than spending $100 to send it back.