So I've built up quite a few scratches on my machine over the past few months. I was bored today so I thought I'd do something about it.
I'd heard from a bunch of posts that using a heat gun very carefully would slightly melt and smooth out the imperfections in the surface of the body plastic. So I started with my heat gun on the low setting, but that took forever. I stepped it up to high and used a circular sweeping motion to cover about 8-10 square inches at a time. It worked pretty good, but I noticed that the warning stickers were melted at the edges... Well, one thing led to another and I decided that if one sticker came off, all the warning stickers should come off and that led to using Orange Glo to remove the adhesive (worked very very well!!!) and put a shine on the plastics... Again, one thing led to another and I would up spraying and scrubbing down the whole body, seat, and all with Orange Glo. Looks better than it did the day I bought it!
I'm undecided on whether I should remove the "Sportsman 850HO EFI" and "AWD" decals on the sides and the "Touring" decal on the headlight pod. Anyone else removed those decals? Pics?
Here's what she looks like now.
I'd heard from a bunch of posts that using a heat gun very carefully would slightly melt and smooth out the imperfections in the surface of the body plastic. So I started with my heat gun on the low setting, but that took forever. I stepped it up to high and used a circular sweeping motion to cover about 8-10 square inches at a time. It worked pretty good, but I noticed that the warning stickers were melted at the edges... Well, one thing led to another and I decided that if one sticker came off, all the warning stickers should come off and that led to using Orange Glo to remove the adhesive (worked very very well!!!) and put a shine on the plastics... Again, one thing led to another and I would up spraying and scrubbing down the whole body, seat, and all with Orange Glo. Looks better than it did the day I bought it!
I'm undecided on whether I should remove the "Sportsman 850HO EFI" and "AWD" decals on the sides and the "Touring" decal on the headlight pod. Anyone else removed those decals? Pics?
Here's what she looks like now.


