waxing carbon fiber?

Broken Glass · Post by **Broken Glass** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:08 pm

Is it safe to wax carbon fiber body parts?

glasswars · Post by **glasswars** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:15 pm

KrackstaR · Post by **KrackstaR** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:30 pm

to my understanding you can wax anything with enuff clear on it.

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:58 pm

yes...I wax my hood and all the other cf stuff all the time. makes it look alot better.

srtjesse · Post by **srtjesse** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:01 pm

i waxed mine and it looked like shit if you look at my sig you can see the white marks and i could not take it of so i had to sand and reclear the whole hood

magnus · Post by **magnus** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:00 am

I think that carbon hoods that have not been cleared, but geled, are suceptible to fogging/developing that whitish faded look if you wax them.

I have carbon mirrors that I clay bared and waxed, then a few days/weeks later, they looked like crap. It was easily fixed though. As SrtJesse mentioned, sanding then clearing them fixed the problem. The hastle is what sucked. They have been perfect since, and did not haze when I waxed them.

If you plan on waxing carbon parts, I would suggest testing a small portion to see how it reacts.

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:25 pm

We waxed a brand new, fresh out of the box cf hood last night and it looked even better when we were done. no hazing....