I am just curious, has anyone ever tried sanding and buffing out scratch marks on the colored plastic parts?

 

The way I ride it wouldn't do much good if I buffed it out. I never tried to.

 

Cant see the point, for what I use mine for i`m bound to get scratches..As I think will most peoples ATV`s

 

I have buffed out the plastic front fenders on our 500HOs, seems like the natural place to put your feet while crossing creeks. Never needed to sand just used a foam pad and the heat smooths the scratches but they were not deep. If you need to sand, anything finer than 1000 grit is fine to buff, work up from 600 wet for deep ones.

 

Thanks, I kind of figured it could be done but I didn't want to make it worse. I have some deep scratches from the machine being rolled.

As for Tommy and Jumbo, sorry, I can't tell if you are bragging or complaining.

 

Nah, no bragging or complaining, just saying for me I cant see the point, hope you get your sctarches sorted out..

 

It's a ATV it's going to scratched ride it and enjoy.

 

i have a black plastics with kind of a sparkle to it i wet sanded them out up to 2500 grit took the scratches out but made my plastics very dull i then heat guned them it came back a bit but not like new armoral doesnt even do the trick

 

Thanks for the reply. I will most likely have the same thing. My green 550 has some fairly deep road rash and I will have to start out with about 100 grit and work my way up to 1500 and then try buffing.

 

Lovmudd!! I hope you missed adding a 3rd 0 on the grit.