I have a carbon hood vis hood. Do you guys clear coat them before you put them on? SO they dont fade.

 

yes.

 

i put a double coat on..

 

i did'nt know you have to clear coat the cf hoods......but we don't have to sand the hood do we??

 

I had the oem vis for 10 monthes and faded im goign to ask my body shop to clear it then

 

Has anyone cleared the trunk I might get the roof from kaminari too.

 

mmmm i had my cf hood for a while also but no clear coat yet.. i dont have the money to have someone do it for me

 

IN sunny areas it is a must.......I have not done my Kami hood yet.......a good polish and wax pruct that has UV protection in it wil also help ........but recomend gettign it cleared with a UV protector and then the UV wax.

 

thank you my body shop is doing it for me next week on the hatch and the hood then my fenders in springs

 

i thought most c/f hoods for the tC were clear coated and UV protected from the factory.

atleast that's what it says in most of the descriptions on websites

 

Ive had VIS hoods from my GT-S to my TC and never had any issues with fading, chiping, yellowing, etc, just wash your car and wax it...aka take care of your ish... and you will be fine

 

I have an uber-cheap CF hood I bought used for $200 and I have no fading. Just take care of it.

 

my VIS hood faded super quick. i live in super sunny southern california. I park it under the sun at work (40 hours a week), but garage it at night. The fading and cracking on my hood occurred primarily in the center. Perhaps the underhood insulation might have minimized heat damage (I never used the insulation with my cf hood). I wash and wax the car about every 2 months (i'm lazy).

Pics from a year ago (got much worse later):
Check out the fade. Thats a crack in the resin (near the nozzle hole). You can see how shiny it was where the stickers used to be.

Taken on a cloudy day. You can see where its fading.


Rather than paying to fix it or buy another cf hood, I tried something different.


On my previous cars I had the cf hood clear coated and it never faded. My very first VIS hood (8 years go) faded and turned yellow like no other. Their quality has improved from those days.

 

orangetc i have the hood now what should i use to get some of the scraths out of the hood anyone

 

HKS Speed I Love that hood, uber jealous

 

hey hks speed did that 3m restorer wax help at all? i have a vis hood too, but no garage to park it. Always parked on the street.

 

that 3M stuff is just a mixture of rubbing compound and wax. I tried after reading a thread on Honda-tech. I just polishes the hood, but its not a permanent fix.

Here's a photo after applying the stuff for 45 minutes by hand. I wasnt impressed. People who used a buffer got better results.

 

ive honestly never seen a carbon fiber hood on a tC that bad. ether you didn't take care of it at all or clear was defective.

 

I had my CF hood in Arizona for 12 months and it didn't fade at all. Never cleared it, never waxed it, nothing.

 

wat hood did u have carbonxe?

and hkspeed, hmm well i kinda thought so, got my hopes up for nothing.