Fiberglass Crack, Oh no! Options

[celicaboy04]

Howdy boys (and girls, specialy the one with the red~celi *panting*)

Anywho, I am a poor college student up in Santa Rosa, CA and someone hit the front end of my Celi last week turning right into my lane from an adjacent street (I had the right of way thank you).

Anyways, my front fender got destroyed so I bought a pair of the z3 fenders off of cyber best buy. The fenders are great all except for one crack in one of them. I could send this back of course, but I think its a simple fix, and its not in a visible area either. It is at an unvisible location from the exterior, but it is close enough to the mounting points that it risks breaking off from the vibrations.

I have NEVER done fiberglass work and I am curious as to what I should do to fix the crack.

For those of you pimpstas here at 6gc that do all your body work, please enlighten me on the manner of which I should pursue fixing this crack (and please be specific with amounts of material - as much as can be anyways).

Thanks guys!

Will

This post has been edited by celicaboy04: Nov 17, 2004 - 8:18 PM

[playr158]

erik, there really isn't any safty issue with fiberglass fenders VS stock metal fenders (the fiberglass is actually harder then the metal ones, aka the metal will bend in and so forth waaay before the fiberglass ones break)

but when fixing the fiberglass cracks just make sure you sand down the surface and mix the appropriate amounts of resin vs hardener,

use fiberglass CLOTH (it looks like a basket weave) and this lays much easier and cleaner...

cheapo paint brush and just "paint" the resin onto the cloth(which is on the cracked surface) just enough to penatrate the cloth (it will go from white to translucent) then let completely harden your pretty much set

but if you need it on the outside of a piece...then you'll want to sand and apply a small amount of bondo and resand smooth primer and paint