| Depends on how big the crack is and how much paint has come off.
Plastic welding isn't hard, you can do it yourself with a soldering iron. All you do is take the fairing off and apply the soldering iron to the back of the fairing. As the plastic melts you sort of zig zig the soldering iron to stich the two sides of the crack together, or if you've got a spar bit of plastic you can use that as a sort of welding rod. If you're resonably careful you can make quite a neat job of it, but that doesn't matter anyway because it'll be on the inside of the fairing and nobody will ever see it.
That should hold the crack rigid again so it doesn't flex. Then, go around the outside of the fairing again and just the merest scrape of filler and a light sanding should make everything smooth and lovely again.
If there's only a tiny bit of paint missing you should be able to touch it in quite easily. You can get Ducati colours from paint factors and if it's only a small bit like the bit between the lights you'll probably be able to do it yourself and make a reasonable job of it.
Of course if your a perfectionist, you'll need to go down the professional repair or buying new route, in my experience buying mint panels from eBay is nigh on impossible, they all need some work on them (why would people be selling otherwise)  |