Are your Cyclops engine covers sun baked? Try this!

[Valleyvfdfirefighter]

Alright Ladies and Gentleman,

I know im new here and I appreciate ya'll welcoming me to the OCC forum. So I thought it would only be appropriate to try and give a little helpful tip to anyone wanting to get their plastic engine covers a second life!

**Do at your own risk, I am not responsible for any mishaps or unwanted results**

So, are your engine side covers, hood, and grill badly faded or baked from the sun? I have a technique that will more than likely help you out.

I recently bought a 2082 and the plastics were sun baked very bad. Now I cleaned them and the color never changed and running your hands across it it felt like sandpaper!

Well, as I was thinking tonight I thought to myself what about buffing the panels. After all, I buff my fiberglass on my boat all the time. But would it work considering it was plastic and not fiberglass. So I headed to the garage, pulled out my 7" buffer and a good old jar of "Buff Magic". I fell in love with this product about 5 years ago when I was breathing a second life into a boat restoration. The nice thing about it compared to other buffing compound is that the more you buff with it, the more it itself breaks down and eventually turns into a polish!

The trick, as when buffing anything, is correct speed and keep moving. You don't want to stay in the exact same spot to long or you can actually burn through it.

I used two very light layers of buff magic, spread on lightly with an old paint brush and turned the buffer on 2 and headed to town. Withing 5 short min. this was the result.

Note, I'm not finished as it got dark but I just wanted to show you, you can make these thinks look new again! Best of all, it's as smooth as a baby's bottom!

Rob