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Side covers - beyond repair??

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exzachtly1

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Alright, I'm looking to repair these side covers if at all possible. I just can't spend the $60-70 per side cover for the OEM ones (for the wrong color), and ebay is pretty dried up.

Below are the pics of the front and back of each. The rear plastic "hook" style tabs are broken on both, so I'd need to fabricate those somehow but the other fasteners are OK. Prior owner made an attempt to use a piece of metal wire as a hook - I'd be more interested in seeing if I could actually reconstruct them with plastic putty.

As you can see in the pic the left one is missing quite a chunk... is there some sort of plastic putty that I can use to fill the gap? Ideally something I could grab at autozone or advance auto parts to save on shipping time. I'd love to work on it this weekend.

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thats pretty bad, but salvageable. post up in the classified wanted section. you may get lucky.

as for the repair, use what is known as plastic slurry. grab some acetone at your local hardware/homedepot/lowes..
grab some abs plastic also, mix, set, spread. condensed version
 
I've fixed broken tabs and cracks before, but I'd throw that one missing the huge chunks in the trash.
 
I think Cycle Recycle here in Indy has a couple of 650L side covers that color. If you want, I can check on how much Rob wants for them.

I agree with Nessism, the one with the big chunks missing is trash.
 
Griffin said:
I think Cycle Recycle here in Indy has a couple of 650L side covers that color. If you want, I can check on how much Rob wants for them.

I agree with Nessism, the one with the big chunks missing is trash.
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That would be cool. Let me know!
 
Awesome, just what I was looking for! Subscribed to that thread :clap:
 
Maybe you mentioned it in the thread... but how did you re-do the pin stripes? Also, since mine is blue do you have any suggestions for how to match paint color as closely as possible?
 
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