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Old Sep 25, 2005 | 08:18 PM
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How do i make my T-Tops look better?? Someone has to know!!

Ive posted this before without any good responds...But my t-tops look like crap and i cant deal with it to much longer, how do you clean them up and how can you restore them?? Thanks
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Old Sep 25, 2005 | 08:26 PM
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Which part of them looks like crap? The outside edges?
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Old Sep 25, 2005 | 08:37 PM
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If you have the lexan style tops, the "glass" can be buffed out to remove scratches. If you are talking about the trim, you can do like I did with my last car and sand them down and spray a few coats of black paint on them.
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Old Sep 25, 2005 | 08:56 PM
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I am going to do the trim, but what kind of paint do i need...and i dont know what my t-tops are made of, they are on a 91 Camaro, i think it the lexan. What do i buff them with?? Thanks a lot
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Old Sep 25, 2005 | 10:07 PM
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Lexan is plastic. Otherwise they're glass. It should be easy to tell. I used a gloss black car paint from AutoZone to spray the t-tops, mostly because my car is already black and it matched up well. Normally you should use a satin finish black.
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Old Sep 26, 2005 | 07:26 AM
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i have lexan then, i will do that, now how do you clean the center
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Old Sep 26, 2005 | 07:07 PM
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well i used some plastic glass filler stuff that's made to fill in plexglass and plastics and such. It definetly works well but, requires a lot of elbow greese. It gets out all the surface stuff but, the big stuff still shows.

My dad told me about being able to sand it down or such with a real fine sand paper then buff it out or such. He said he saw about it on the d.i.y. channel but, we can't seem to find it on the site and i'd love to know because, mine are still to scratched up for my liking. anyways i hope someone has an answer to this!
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Old Sep 26, 2005 | 08:09 PM
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me too! but using plastic polishing compound will really work??
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