XT350thumper

Hi I ended up scraping it off with a stanley knife blade. had to scrape quite a lot off before I got to decent plastic and it looks quite a bit better. Cheers John

Hi Finally getting down to doing some bits on the XT350 to tidy it up and get ready for an MOT. Got a question regarding plastics. Mine has the original plastics on it but they are in a bad way. Because the bike is a California inport and seems to have spent a good deal of time sat out in the sun the plastics had suffered badly. What I want to know is this. How do I bring them back? Can I revive them? They seem to have a 1mm thick coat of powdery degraded plastic. Just like what you get on those white plastic tables you leave out in the garden all year round. You can scratch it off fairly easily with a finger nail but when you do this it still don't look so clever. I was wondring if there was something that I could use to wipe this stuff off rather than scratching it off. Ideally I'd like something that would take off the top layer and leave a fairly decent finish. I've thought of using either paint thinners or petrol? Any hot tips lads? I'd replace them if I thought I stood a cat in hells chance of getting replacements. Cheers John

Nice XT... Looks mint. Defo want mine to look like that when I'm done.

Hi Just got myself a 88 XT350. Its an import and needs some TLC, great mechanical order, just a bit scruffy on the bodywork side of things. Looking forward to some fun times during the winter sorting it all out. Cheers John