I thought I would post an update on my refinishing my plastic on my new-to-me-scruffy 2009 KLX250s.

White side panel; deep scratched and discolored, I eventually sanded with 220 grit on an orbital sander, you have to get the sander very quickly on the part during start-up or if it gets up to speed it will burn the plastic, then I wet sanded with the sander and 600 grit. I shot Fusion gloss white and then wet sanded by hand with 600 grit. Then shot another coat. Very close to perfect.

Now I am working on the front fender, again deep, deep scratches and scuffing, I sanded with 220 and the orbital, then hand sanded with 220 grit (to remove the deep scratches) and then wet sanded with the orbital and 600 grit. I believe you could hand-sand for a month with 600 and not make much headway.

Now here's the deal, I found Fusion in gloss clear at Wally World and after the prep looked pretty good I shot the clear on, it of coarse exaggerated the fine scratches, so I wet sanded by hand with 600 and shot more clear on. I think a couple more laps and it will look new.

Now with the Fusion paint they say no prep, just shoot it, but in my experience if you don't sand it thoroughly and just shoot on the original glossy finish it will fisheye like crazy.


I'll post pix a little farther down the process.




Unrelated PiX to Make the Post More Interesting (Me back in the day, RM370A)

 

I had a new RM370A once...light years ahead of my TM400 !

Bikes were so cheap back then.