Help: Carbon repair
 

I caught a curb a couple of days ago and damaged the bottom side of my seibon lip :shakes head:. Your thoughts on how to repair this?

It looks like it's only the bottom. If they are just scratches, how about black touch up paint.

Fortunately it looks like u just damaged the clear and not the actual carbon fiber weave. A bodyshop should be able to reclear it and make it look like new.

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Agreed. Clear is chipped pretty badly. Off to the shop... sorry to see that.

That looks like more than just the clear, looks like the resin got cracked thru.

i dont think you can clear that bro.. the resin on the portion is gone... :(

Thank you all for the replies. :tup: should I be worried about this spreading? (this is my 1st time dealing with carbonfiber)

I think it is going to be a tough repair. I have worked with an issue like this in the past and the body shop had a hard time with it. It never looked 100%.

I'm not sure what lip you have but maybe paint part of it to match the car. You can always follow the lines on the lip so that some CF still shows.

yah as simota mention the resin is gone so will be difficult to get it to the same level as the surrouding CF, but clearcoating it will definitely help make it look less noticable.

me personally, I would tape it off and put some more resin over that spot so that it doesnt start to crack further back.

I’ll be stopping by a body shop to see what can be done, I was thinking a boat repair shop might be a good choice (they must deal a lot with different types of resin) Some of you have suggested I paint it… any thoughts on a good pattern? You can see in the picture that some of the damage is noticeable from the front/side.

Lips get chewed up, such is life, my OEM carbon front spoiler looks like hell but hey at least it wasn't your bumper

Before going to a body shop, you might save a few bucks by buying your own touchup paint and bringing it to the shop. A lot of those places charge 3-4 times as much and the consumer has no idea. Here's a list of all of the '09 370z colors on a site I found: 2009 Nissan 370z Touch Up Paint Colors

you could paint the part that you have circled on both sides might look cool, I'm no good with photo shop or else I would just start photo shoping ideas for you to consider, maybe someone else on here can do that