I have a crack in my lenses on my gt--the price (e-bay) is nuts on gt's--so rather than replace just for a crack I would like to bond and seal them without looking too horrible
I googled how to fix lexan, plexi, abs, acrylic--they all have a different process and rather than having alot of chemicals I thought someone here might know what they are made of
thanks

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Pat Jones

Pat,

Here is what search turns up: https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/120528.html

Probably polycarbonate.

Larry

thanks--seems like paint stripper contains the chemicals needed--dont want to keep too many of the dangerous chemicals around (pets, kids, me!)

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Pat Jones

Why doesnt someone start making new lens covers for these cars? They would make a fortune, provided they didn't come with a greedy pricetag.

quote Originally posted by Stainless1911: Why doesnt someone start making new lens covers for these cars? They would make a fortune, provided they didn't come with a greedy pricetag.

Tooling for any molded part is expensive. Im guessing since theres not a big demand, price would be pretty high.

yeah. The tail lights on my Z28 are 250$, so I wouldnt pay over 175 each.

Id buy one wouldnt you?

Visit a plastic molding factory and you will see why it won't happen. There must be a few right around where you live.

http://fierostore.com/Produ...px?s=51542&d=275&p=1

the fiero store did a short run on taillight lenses.

quote Originally posted by Gall757: Visit a plastic molding factory and you will see why it won't happen. There must be a few right around where you live.

I used to work at one.

The Fiero Store told me that the LF marker light wouldn't be in stock for 6 weeks, because they were waiting for a new batch to come in from manufacturing. If they make all 4 marker lights, why not the tail lights also? They will be selling them to the same people, they are making profit from the marker lights, why not the tail lights?

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The old tooling is still around? That's a lucky break.....I wonder who owns it...probably not the Fiero Store.....The machine time for a tool that size is maybe $1000 per hour, and the first hour of production would be junk.....so it's a big business gamble. You have to make enough of them to make money at an established price. $150 is probably as low as it will get....How many can you sell in a year?... 10?....100?

The Fiero Store had a company using their (The Fiero Store's) tooling to make the lenses but they closed their doors without notice taking the tooling with them. Tooling for a piece would run well into six figures to reproduce. Assuming they molded 100 sets at a time and sold 16-20 sets a month it would take 5 years just to break even. Only a fool would make that investment.

Dr. W.

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As far as I know, the tooling is scrap - the company TFS contracted to make the GT tails went under and everyone bailed.

[Will beat me to it. F'n crappy data reception out here]

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