Fairing Fix Up

Hey guys!

On New Year's Day I had like a 4mph slip and drop on the ice on my Fazer 600 and cracked the fairing.
Was just wondering if any of you's know of a method of getting it fixed up and how much it would cost roughly??

Here's the damage:

you can do it yourself quite easily with a fibreglass repair kit and some body filler. the problem is painting over the repair, but if you can get hold of the right paint you should be able to do a decent DIY job. otherwise you could find somewhere that does plastic welding, but I dont know how much that costs and what the effect would be on the paintwork.

[dizzyblonde]

If you do go down the DIY route. Before doing the plastic padding, get some apoxy resin and apply it with a pin patiently(this gives you the right amount rather than a thick mess) then hold the two sides together until bonded, being careful you don't get it coming out on the painted side.
This will give you a good start, and hopefully a nice smooth bond for your repair kit, rather than trying to pad it to something flapping about.
I did this recently with one of my fairings, but it was a good clean crack. I was so impressed I haven't got round to plastic padding it yet!

[Dave20046]

I've done both plastic welding (as per http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv_SpbqyQvI to give you an idea) and also fibre glass on the inside and a sweep over smooth over bodyfiller on the outside. If you prep well and take your time then you can get a good result but like mjc said painting it might look slightly out.
If I was you I'd take the fairing off choose your weapon of choice, repair the crack and respray the whole thing your self.
Or if it's an expensive bike/you want to/you **** up the spraying take it to a pro to spray - I imagine it'd be somewhere between £50-£100 for the whole fairing.

looks like could be a nice fibreglass DIY repair kit jobbie right there, the hardest bit would be gettin the colour right as it always fades a bit with age so gettin a match would be a biatch!

ya could always paint some black go faster stripes to hide the repair or spray the whole nose-fairing fingy if thas the case

[andrewsmith]

about 100 notes for a bikini fairing respray. Most spray shows will do the welding aswell if u chicken it

[yorkie_chris]

Not a lot of point getting fancy respray, just plastic weld the back up to stop it flapping about.