I am really embarassed to even post this. I went absolutely BRAIN DEAD tonight and applied Aircraft Surface Remover to the clear center "Camaro" portion of my 91-96 centercaps....yup, all four. Please, dont even ask.

It went down pretty deep, severly melting and pitting the clear plastic. I have been sanding all night with 60 grit and have gotten most of the bad plastic out, there is only a little bit of pitting left which I will try and get at tomorrow. But the ugly part now is that even if I get all the pitting out, I am left with severly sanded and foggy centercaps. I am 90% sure these things are toast, however I'm not going to give up just yet. What do you recomend I do? My plan was to go from 60 grit to 100, then 150, 220, something in the 300 range, maybe 400, then some rubbing compound and finally some polishing compound. Any suggestions?

 

Dark, plastic is pretty hard to make look good as it did originally when it was molded. IMO, I'd do a search on *baymotors for a new set. IF you still want to spend the time trying to fix yours, the grades you mentioned would do but you'd want to go all the way up to like 1000.

 

Grr, yeah, I just took another look and these things are goners. I just sanded with 60 grit to take off the white melted plastic and stuck em back on. From 6 feet they look fine. Down the road when I do my wheels I'll replace them. What a tough lesson. WTF was I thinking!

 

ouch.. that sounds as bad as when my four year old son got ahold of a bottle of brake clean and decided to wash my car

 

Dude that sucks, but it reminds me of the time the EPA stopped by to yell at us for using too much aircraft soap on our ospreys...so we took the priviledge of washing their truck for them

 

That sucks...When I was younger a freind of mine and myself used to wash his fathers company vans...We figured Brillo worked so good on the tires we should use it on the van. aVan was black too...Man did we leave some scratches on that thing. My friends dad was not very pleased.

 

I saw an Impala with similar looking centercaps except with a red bowtie emblem...will these fit? I wouldnt mind having those ones on my Camaro...

 

just get a new set on ebay. they're dirt cheap on there, and you can usually find a few nice sets

 

why did you puit air craft paint remover?did you confuse it with something elsE?

 

Ouch..... that sounds like the time my mom used a gallon of nitro methane I had on my workbench because she thought it was windshield washer fluid! They're both blue.... but I'm still not sure how she made that mistake.....

 

Or as bad as my father deciding to clean his brushes next to my car that had paint thinner on them.

 

I had just finished painting the nose and front ground effect on my car. Had it sitting on some saw horses in my garage.

Well...after i cleaned my paint gun with reducer. I hung it up in the same place i always do. which just happened to be right over my freshly painted nose.

Came back out a few hours later to see my new shiny nose. The gun still had some reducer from the cleaning. It dripped from the gun and ran down the nose and ground effect. Melted the paint right off it.

 

ive had the nitro methane one happen. my stepdad filled up his trucks and my moms car with it. sucky part is that night we were out and had to use the sprayers. all that stuff does is foam up so u cant see anything, kinda scarry.
matt

 

you could also look for late model s-10 center caps, they use the same wheels and caps as yours. you might be able to get them a little cheaper that way too.

 

ive always wondered if those impala center caps would fit, they look exactly the same size.

 

I think they maybe the same size. I may check this, if the sales people leave me alone long enought to test fit one. Or go under the cover of darkness... Just joking, i know people in the parts department of gm dealership they may can get some measurements for me or let me get some.

You can buy new ones cheap though.

This reminds me of the day i had slammed on brakes to teach a friend who was riding with don't cuss at the driver or back talk for that matter. Anyways got to his house, decided i check and see if i cut into the rotors. So i stuck finger back there feel the rotor. Can we say, "dumb move".:P

 

LOL I did the exact same thing makes me feel better now that I know someone has done the same thing I also touched the muffler on a lawnmower when i was like 7 asking my dad isnt that the muffler.....ouch

 

yeah i touched my rotor on my first z28 and it was after i was driving like an idiot all day and my fingertip turned into a plastic like feel

 

I was riding my friends crotch rocket and the Muffler fell off when I was goin bout 50mph down the road, so I go back and not even thinking pick up the muffler ...needless to say the next day my entire hand was one huge blister.

Also it was my right hand and I had to ride the bike back with the burnt hand

 

ive done that before ^

when i was like 7 i desided to go help my dad change the oil in his brand new truck.....i put a quart of oil in the washer fluid ........ he was wondering all day were that last quart went.....he was a little pissed next time he had to clean the windshield...

 

Haha, that's strange. It actually pitted my mom's windshield a bit. But dang, it sure does foam up. Scary indeed.