How To Repair Broken Plastic Footwell On Atv

You tin can expect to pay anywhere from $100, $200, even $500 or more for replacement fenders and other plastic parts for clay bikes and ATVs . At present, you accept an economically priced selection to bargain with the problem of croaky and cleaved fenders -- the ATV Fender Welder! The ATV Fender Welder is the first plastic welder specifically designed for the practice-it-yourselfer. It's so piece of cake...

Take a look at this fender. This will give you lot an idea of the kind of repair that tin can is possible with the piece of cake-to-use ATV Fender Welder.

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Hopefully, your fenders aren't this bad, merely it'due south reassuring to know that it can be repaired.

"Will information technology make the fender expect make new?"

I wish it did. Unfortunately, you volition be able to meet where the repair was fabricated. But y'all need to decide what is more important... Having expensive new fenders that look cracking, or... Having fully functional fenders and saving some cash.

Here is ane style you lot can go far look a lot better (and this is what I did with mine)...

Subsequently your weld has cooled down, sand it with 80 grit, and so 180 grit. It will look really bad at this signal, but you're not done yet. You lot might fifty-fifty say it looks fuzzy.

Now have a heat gun... and simply blast the hot air accross the fuzz. This will cook the plastic just plenty so that it looks wet. When it cools, information technology will look smooth again.

*** Be conscientious non to agree the rut on the fender as well long though. Otherwise yous will warp the fender. You are trying to cook just the surface.

"Is it a stiff repair?"

Aye. If the fender does break again, it will probably interruption in the same place, only there is a fashion to make it much stronger. Here'due south how...

Cutting a piece of Stainless Steel Reinforcing Mesh about 1 inch wide and the length of the crack. Use the tip of the welder and push it downward into the plastic . (Yous might want to do it on the backside, since it volition not exist pretty). Allow it cool off and then end the repair. Burying the wire mesh into the plastic is like putting rebar in concrete... it makes information technology much stronger.

"Can I pigment the plastic?"

We have heard some success stories in painting ATV fenders. Here are some fenders that were painted by Full Blown Kustoms

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