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Sun faded plastic colour restoration


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I saw a video on youtube about restoring colour to plastic parts that have faded due to sun exposure and thought I'd give it a go. One piece on my bike was really badly faded. I used a stanley knife blade to scrape away the faded top layer of plastic and you get to the coloured plastic underneath. It was quite easy actually.



I just tried a little bit to see if it would make a difference

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Realised it was working so I decided to do the whole thing

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There was a couple of spots I couldn't get to with the blade so I had to finish it with some t-cut

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The t-cut got rid of a lot of marks as well and made it much better

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It's still not perfect but it's much better than it was.

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