I don't care what anyone says.....you CAN paint carbon fiber. There would be no reason why you can't. thats like saying you can't paint plastic. for me personally i don't know why you wouldn't want to paint it. in my opinion if you painted it...it would be more stealth. you'd save weight and it would still look good. but thats just me

Case in point: The Mercedes McLaren SLR. I've told a few people about this AMAZING car (0-60 3.8s; 120-0 240ft, top 204mph).. granted, it runs $600,000.... but the entire body is carbon fiber, and it comes in Silver.

yea you can paint carbon fiber, it just needs a different
primer to help it stick to the surface better.

Minus the fact that you CAN paint carbon fiber and commenting back on the first post of this thread, October '05's issue of Turbo and High-tech Performance features an Editor's 'Next 10 worst things to do to your car-the sequel' ( I must have missed the initial offering). Some of these items listed include Japanese/Chinese text stickers that you have no idea what they mean, unneccessary hood scoops, and spray painted rims...

the car i just bought has a carbon fiber hood on it i dont paticularly care for it but ill keep it on anyways but as far as paint goes most kids dont ever paint their body kits let alone their hood i think the carbon fiber has a distinctive look that looks nice on some cars my favorite hood ive ever seen was a fiberglass hood with a small carbon fiber insert ill see if i can find the picture of it

mike i had to disagree with you cuz i normally agree with you but this statement - "yea you can paint carbon fiber, it just needs a different
primer to help it stick to the surface better." is NOT true. you can just paint carbon fiber without primer. you can lay the basecoat right on top of the carbon fiber. I mean you still have to scuff up the surface but there is no primer needed.

I was just browsing the internet looking at random sites and saw an urgent warning. The warning stated that Kaminari is no longer distributing carbon fiber hoods due to a global shortage of carbon fiber materials.

— Burgndy87SS

mike i had to disagree with you cuz i normally agree with you but this statement - "yea you can paint carbon fiber, it just needs a different
primer to help it stick to the surface better." is NOT true. you can just paint carbon fiber without primer. you can lay the basecoat right on top of the carbon fiber. I mean you still have to scuff up the surface but there is no primer needed.

Well if you think about it that statement is still true... You are using a different type of primer, and that is no primer... I dont know just felt like being a smart ass this morning...

Jeremy

lol, Tom

And Jeremy, I was thinking the same type of thing as what you said.
It's like.. you're still "priming" the surface, but in a different sense of the word. It's like, you're not referring to the noun, primer.. but the verb, priming.. and so, although you still have to "prime" (verb) the surface, you don't technically need the primer (noun) and so it is technically true that you don't need primer (noun)

..so.. you both win.




...assuming of course that this "scuff up" technique does really work : )