Body and interior

Body and interior guides cover the parts of a golf buggy that take weather and wear rather than current: windscreen scratches and replacement, seat cover repair and replacement, canopy fitting and leak fixes, faded plastic body panels, paint touch-up, fitting mirrors and small accessories, and hunting down body squeaks and rattles. Most of this work is straightforward, and the guides concentrate on the details that prevent new damage during the repair. Buggy windscreens are acrylic or polycarbonate rather than glass, so they scratch far more easily than a car screen: wash them with plenty of water and a soft cloth and never wipe them dry, because dragging grit across the surface causes the hazing that owners later try to polish out. When fitting mirrors or other accessories to plastic panels, drill a pilot hole first and put rubber or nylon isolation washers under the fixings, since a screw overtightened into unprepared plastic starts the crack that later spreads across the panel. Squeaks and rattles usually live at fixing points and hold-downs, and tightening them with a soft washer added cures most of them. Nearly everything in this category suits an owner with hand tools and patience. The exception is damage that reaches the structure beneath the panels, or a windscreen frame bent in an impact; in those cases book a Hawke engineer to check the vehicle before any cosmetic repair goes ahead.