This week, the guys hang out in the garage and review how to repair the carbon fiber interior of a Porsche 996 Turbo. The 911 Turbo is well known to have a problem prone interior overlay on its optional interior trim packages. Time, and sunshine damage carbon, as well as the other OEM Porsche optional interior trim such as the wood trim.
While we are primarily focused on repairing the interior of the Porsche 911, Andy is off to the side jumping into the action to repair his carbon wing on the turbo Miata. This is proof that the technique we use will work on any sort of carbon fiber resin based surface, which should be all carbon fiber items.
Our technique of repairing the carbon fiber interior is not adding new wrap. We are truely repairing the surface of the carbon fiber resin. If you follow our guide you can think of this as a carbon fiber repair kit to perform DIY (do it yourself) repair without expensive replacement of interior panels.
00:00 – Intro to repairing carbon fiber and why we are doing it
01:19 – Disassembling the Porsche Interior begins
01:46 – Sanding Carbon Fiber epoxy resin parts
02:13 – 996 Turbo interior is mostly disassembled
02:40 – Andy rinsing dust off of his carbon wing with water to see where he is with sanding
03:13 – Porsche sanding and overview of how to sand for carbon fiber repair
04:46 – Sanding progress update, Bryan rinsing off Porsche interior part to show where he is
05:43 – Final prep with Acetone before applying epoxy resin
06:39 – Placement considerations during epoxy resin application
07:20 – Mixing the epoxy resin, mix ratios, and what does this stuff do
08:26 – Applying epoxy resin to the parts
10:00 – Removing air bubbles from wet epoxy resin (neat trick!)
10:32 – Wet 996 Interior pieces, this is what wet epoxy resign looks like
11:02 – Wet sanding a dried piece to get a final finish
11:23 – Polishing after wet sanding with a DA polisher
12:20 – Porsche interior progress update and showing off how GREEN the gauge hood was (OMG!)
12:57 – Defroster vent carbon repair on a Porsche 996 Turbo
13:43 – Final thoughts and retrospective (the finished product!)
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Hi! Interesting work! I am I interested in the defrost panel trim, what issues did you have ?
Thanks !
Satisfying video. My 996 interior has carbon fiber vinyl attached and the actual thing looks much better. I’m interested in the carbon fiber vent defroster
Good stuff you two…what will clean old glue and what new glue for peeled dash strip..if you know? And tks Steve
Great video! Can you share the vendor that sold the dash defroster trim you bought?
This is the best video I've ever seen in my life
Nice video. Sanding carbon sucks. I highly recommend wearing a quality respirator or at the very least sanding outside because the tiny carbon and epoxy particles are worse than asbestos. If you don't want to itch for a week, gloves help too. Also, if you have the means, you can use UV shielding urethane clear instead of re-epoxying. This will slow down any future yellowing process.