How To Restore A Carbon Fiber Hood 

Finally a video that isn’t 35 minutes long and uses $100,000 shops.. sand my hood in my living room right now and this is the perfect video to reassure me on what to do

Great video! Going to try and restore a free carbon fiber hood that I got and this video was very informative. Thanks for taking the time to make the video 👍

Thanks bro I’m pretty noobie when it comes to working on cars this gave me the confidence to do it on my own and not to mention it’s the best video I’ve seen so far on how to restore carbon fiber🙏

Thanks for this man. My focus st has a carbon hood that has been taking a beating. Going to respray it this weekend with your instructions 👍

Well I just did mine. used the 2k clear. waited a day, then I sanded wet sanded at 2000. I had some meguiars ultimate compound and polish. It still very orange peely though. I've already waxed it and all. Not sure if I should just start again and re wet sand it maybe at 1500 instead, then compound polish it again. Its shiny and all, just orange peely. I might just live with it. It was dull and matted before, now its shiny and ... kind of blurry. I wasn't trying to see my reflection in it and all, I just didn't want it dull and oxidized anymore.

looks great! good work man

Great video man couldn’t have been better!

Bad ass job. I'm gona try this on my evos hood. Thanks for the video

My carbon hood is getting white mist on the clear coat thank you for the video will have to get round to this asap

how did it look after the 1500 wet sand after clear, but before the polish? mine looks kinda grey. is that how it’s supposed to look? also how is it holding up

W video I’m going to try this on my hood and this time get PPF lol!

Fantastic content bro

Thanks for this vid man, very informative. One question, my CF hood has only small spots here and there clouding. Can you use this for spot restoration or would you recommend doing the whole hood?

I DIY ceramic coated mind, still looks brand new :)

Looks awesome! About how many cans of clear coat did you use? Planning on doing this to my hood on my Evo this weekend and just wasn’t sure how much to get.

Bro great vid

Best video

Thank you for this video I bought a Xavien hood cost me five grand within one year it’s already starting to peel discolor looks like a ghetto car and it’s an M3 not acceptable. I guess I’m gonna have to pull the hood off and do what you did I hope I get the same results where did you get the clear stuff at the two-part thing that you were talking about

I was told you need a UV protection clear coat on CF... How is the 2k holding up?

Hey how long did it take you start to finish sanding a clear coating

What alcohol do you use after sanding it down?

What type of polishing pad did you use for the 3 polishers?

i was thinking about doing this real soon, mine looked the same but a little worst, you can see some areas peeling. you didnt need any epoxy rosin?

Do you sand it with the sanding block in circular motions or?

Did this process except used 2x clear coat and the results were the same, however after going through a touch less car wash i see that there is clouding spots appearing outwards of where the hood vent is (08 wrx). Why is this? Do i need to sand these areas and polish again? Clear coat again? I waited a few days before I even washed the hood by hand, and a few more passed until I went through the touch less car wash. It only started clouding after the latter

What technique did you use to sand with 1500 grit before polish? Are you going up and down or circles? How much pressure to use? Cuz i tried it once before one regular paint clear coat and left tiny scratches

What brand hood is that? I have a Seibon and I've heard that if you re-clear those they get cracks in them. Dunno if its true or not.

The wind was taking all the material

Awesome video! Quick question, how many coats total did you use of the clear coat? Just the two in the video?

Did you wait in between spraying coats or did you just blast it with the whole can

The clear coat will stick to 1500 grit?

Decided to try a 1500 grit sand and polish the whole hood, it’s shiny but it’s definitely full of overspray and my hood is not mirror like finish, should I just go with a 1200 grit and redo it or use a different method?

What setting to use on the orbital sander ?

what compound are you talking about?

At the process where I am spraying my hood, how much time do I let dry between each layer of sprays

Where can I get 2k clear coat?

how many cans did you use total?

Nope, you use resin before the 2k clear.

So I’m at the part where I spray my clear coat and waiting till tmr. There is alil over spray on the sides but after I hit it with 1500 grit do I clear coat it again or do I just go into waxing and such?

Hay Id like to no if there is anyone u no in miami that fixes hoods like u. I have a carbon fiber hood with the same issue n what wood it cost to have someone repair it

Do I wet sand on 1500 or nah

Great video! Just curious if your hood had small hairline cracks in it.

where did you buy all of those?

How's the hood looking to this day?

How many cans did you use?

How many days did the process take from the point you took the hood off to put it back on

Hows it holding up?

If I sanded it down but you can still see the white lines from when it was peeling so I need to sand more?