Sunday, June 16, 2013

Those easily scratched plastics

A look at those plastics I was complaining about



The left front seems to be the worst. This is after a wash.


You can't really see clearly here but the seat has some dark marks which I'm struggling to remove as well.



A view of the right hand side, some dirty marks visible after a wash.



Right hand side isn't as bad as left hand side but still visible.


The whole left with some more marks on the plastics behind the frame.




I left the bike to dry and went to revisit the marks with some car polish. All the marks came off pretty easily, except the seat which seem to be hard to show clearly in the pics, I'll use a proper camera when I get a chance. I've never needed to polish the plastics to get them clean before, but at least I can get them clean, they were looking really bad.

Some after polish pics


The seats not entirely spotless, but I'm going to need some better pics to show my problem.


The much improved front left. That polish seems to do the trick!


The polished plastics behind the frame.


The seat - this one still isn't perfect and needs some work.


The right side. Looking much better.


Some polish seems to do the trick on these cheap plastics, I've followed the polish up with some wax so hopefully that'll help keep the polishing requirements down to a minimum for a few washes.

The dash



A quick look at the Honda CRF250L dash. Apologies for the poor video quality, it has two trip meters, a clock, the fuel gauge and of course the speedo. I do like the white backlight, it's very easy to see at night and in the day.