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General => Cosmetic and bodywork matters => Topic started by: JDM82 on 27 March 2009, 20:18

Title: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: JDM82 on 27 March 2009, 20:18

I no longer can stand the wooden effect interior in my golf mk4 and im thinking of changing it to carbon fibre i would like to know where I can get the carbon fibre kit from and how difficult is it to fit? Im after the good quality stuff not the cheap crap on ebay etc

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: iMation on 27 March 2009, 20:22

Gime a few days mate, i will show you what i can do :D

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: iMation on 30 March 2009, 18:53

(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa292/ubley/Carbon%20work/IMG00033-20090323-2052.jpg)

(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa292/ubley/Carbon%20work/IMG00034-20090323-2055.jpg)

more to come

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: navmk4gti on 31 March 2009, 22:10

where you get that carbon fibre stuff from??

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: iMation on 31 March 2009, 23:13

A mate who works for a F1 team

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: navmk4gti on 01 April 2009, 01:05

thats no good for me then  :sad:

you know anywhere you can get that stuff

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: bomp on 01 April 2009, 11:21

You can get carbon kevlar and carbon fibre rolls at CFS, about £20+ a meter for carbon kevlar and £30+ for carbon fibre. http://www.cfsnet.co.uk/acatalog/Specialist_Fabrics.html, but you'll need a vacuum chamber to degas your resins and a vacuum pump if you want to draw resins through a bag over the contour of a surface.

There's tons of youtube videos of how to do it other ways though.

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: monzablue16v on 01 April 2009, 12:19

Surfboard resin and layering like Glass fibre is the way I am looking at doing some bits. The surfboard resin tends to be quite good at removing bubbles from the piece as you would need a hell of a big vac bag to get an 8' longboard in :)

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: bomp on 01 April 2009, 12:33

Aye, a good set of tools to help is the best, a load of disposable brushes, a couple of metal rollers to push air out/off the surface and a tub or two of acetone to drop the tools in before the resin sets.

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: monzablue16v on 01 April 2009, 12:35

This guy is probably cheapest for Carbon fibre,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAMPLE-CARBON-FIBRE-TWILL-WEAVE-CLOTH_W0QQitemZ330315405822QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_ToysGames_RadioControlled_JN?hash=item330315405822&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1318 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAMPLE-CARBON-FIBRE-TWILL-WEAVE-CLOTH_W0QQitemZ330315405822QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_ToysGames_RadioControlled_JN?hash=item330315405822&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1318)

And here is where I have been advised to get my resins from :)
http://www.seabase.eu/product/ (http://www.seabase.eu/product/)

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: navmk4gti on 01 April 2009, 12:38

thanks for that link... does say its cloth  :huh:

like what imation has done tho ...

i currently got the crappy carbon fibre look vinyl on my dash which looks very tatty.. £7 ebay job  :grin:

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: iMation on 01 April 2009, 12:59

www.carbon-mods.co.uk

These guys are good, bit expensive tho

Title: Re: Carbon fibre golf mk4 dash
Post by: navmk4gti on 01 April 2009, 13:28

cool.. thansk i mation..  :smiley: