A Pillar thingies

[davidn]

The carbon fibre bits either side of the windscreen, mine are past their best and I've never really liked them. I notice that later Cerbs have a larger body coloured cover, has anyone updated theirs? If so where did you source them? Removal looks fairly straigtht forward, unless you've tried and know different.
Thanks
David

[Bodger Bedge]

Hi
Mine were looking fairly ropey so I removed them and carefully picked off the lacquer so that I was down to the fibre. I then very lightly sanded them down and finally wire wooled them. I then sprayed them in normal celullose lacqure about 4 times to get the depth of finish back and now they look like new.
A couple of hours and less than £5 spent well I think!

[davidn]

Hello BB,
That could still be an option, were they difficult to remove and refix?
Cheers
David

[Bodger Bedge]

Dead-easy. Just drill out the 2 pop rivets where the panel lips inside the door window then they simply clip off if I recall. I rivetted them back on but I guess self tappers would also work.
Good luck.

[carl_w]

Once they're stripped back to bare carbon fibre, there's nothing stopping you painting them body-coloured rather than with clear lacquer.

[robscim]

BB - Thanks!

What an excellent bit of info. I saw lots of cerbs before I bought mine and every one had damage to this panel. I assumed (indeed someone told me!) they were prohibitively expensive and therefore to be avoided. Now, I don't feel quite so bad about closing the door with the window up when the control box decided to play up.

I won't fix it for a while but at least I know it is a DIY job.

Cheers

Rob