R1150RT Type of Plastic used for dash and fairing?

[MarkMillman]

I have a 2003 R1150RT and I need to do some repair work on my dash and mirror casing. The dash has a one inch chip out of the lower corner and the mirror-casing has a similar chip. The damage happened during a dead-stop fall-over and instead of breaking away the mirror and dash chipped each others' lower corners off.:banghead

So I bought this book "How to Repair Plastic Bodywork" by Kurt Lammon. While I haven't attempted the repair yet, the book looks excellent and even if I don't attempt the job myself, I will feel considerably more confident selecting someone to do it for me.

The first question I need to answer is what types of plastic are involved. The book suggests that it might be one of:


ABS
PC + ABS
PA or PA+PPE
SMC, UP, FRP


I could just dissemble the bike so that I could read the ID symbols which I expect are marked on the inside of the parts, but that seemed like an awful lot of work compared to posting a question on the Forum!:type

If you happen to know what the plastic type of the dash is (the mirror interior looks like it's the same) can you let me know?

And, if you have actually done any plastic repair, I'd love to get some advice; even if it's just "find someone who knows what their doing!".

Thanks, Mark

[x2nobody]

i repaired my blinkers with abs glue...my way of testing if its going to work is i find a test area...use acetone on it and if the material is affected then i am pretty sure its abs gluable...it has to be black of course if i try this.

Then i clean the area very well and sand if possible so the glue can use the micro-undercuts to grab

this has worked for me many times

other plastics i am not up on

[RiverRat280]

Don't know what type they use but most are ABS. Allot of times I use URI-weld on mine since it will bond any plastics which is nice on some poly-olifins that get greasy when heated making it hard to weld. I work in a body shop and repair allot of plastics so if you ever make it to the Eugene area I could probably help ya out or just pm or email a question but it may take some time before I get back to you.