Oakley Visor Scratch

[Canuck 0]

So last week I take a high stick to my Oakley Aviator Visor. I buffed most of the marks out using water and a lint free cloth. However, the impact appears to have been hard enough that it removed the outer coating on the outside of the visor. You can't really tell unless you look closely, but the area where the impact occurred no longer has a reflective shine on it. Anyone else ever have this happen and were there any solutions to repairing this? Tried the Oakley AFR and it didn't fix the damaged area either. I used searched past post and couldn't find any that dealt with the removal of the outer coating. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[IniNew 53]

If it scratched the coating off there is no fix.

[Canuck 0]

Thanks for the info. Oh well, guess I'll replace it once it gets really scratched up.

[jarret_g 5]

What i usually do when a visor gets old is take a torch to it. This is after i already purchased a new one...because the success rate for this method is very low. If you're careful though you should be able to remove all surface scratches, the deep ones, however, will always remain. You can get them out but you're left with a very blurry spot on the visor

[Xtra 0]

Don't know if you have any near by stores that sell some substance called future. It's suppose to be a type of applicable wax to polish up wooden floors, flooring, scratched glass, scuffed/scratched plastic etc.

This basically gives scuffs and scratches a good shine-over and somewhat eliminates them from being noticeable in your peripherals.

I had the coating of one of my visors start peeling in the dead center. I've done this successfully ONE TIME of 3 attempted tries on my other beat up visors.

It doesn't damage the visor but if done correctly, Future coating should eliminate the visible scuffing you see from the peeling layer. Again, it's only worked once for me and I'm currently using it on my helmet:).

All you gota do is fill up a wide enough container with FUTURE and dip the scuffed up area of your visor into the substance. I held my visor in it for a few mintues ( 10-15 max ). Remember, if you do go with this method, don't dip your WHOLE visor into it.

Anyway, if you wanna give this a shot. This stuff should be found under the home products of your local super-market.

my .02

[Canuck 0]

Thanks for the info. I'll give it a shot and see if any of those techniques work. Especially if I get it scratched up even more. :D

[Xtra 0]

I should also include, if you do the future technique -- after dipping it in the future for a few minutes, cover it up with a container so that no dust particles are collected from the wet future and dry along with the polish

[BMcLean 0]

Playing Jr I get a lot of high sticks and stuff in the visor, one of the tricks i have learned is alcohol swabs it works really well to get stuff off it seems odd but it works!

[Monty22 835]

What i usually do when a visor gets old is take a torch to it. This is after i already purchased a new one...because the success rate for this method is very low. If you're careful though you should be able to remove all surface scratches, the deep ones, however, will always remain. You can get them out but you're left with a very blurry spot on the visor

Not that it needs to be said, but heating up the polycarbonate will likley do grave damage to the protective qualities of the visor.