Repairing scratches on door card plastic

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Is there a way to remove these scratches on plastic?

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I triage Mguires Ultimate Black but it has no affect. The scratches are not deep as I can't feel them when I run my finger over them
 
I’ve got this scratch on mine, yours look worse. No way to repair it.

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I scratched plastic trim in my Audi and asked my detailer if he could fix it and it was a no - it would need replaced.
 
Seems to be a fair few youtube tutorials that you could try on a small patch first, i think you can reduce their visability greatly but not totally fix to be honest
 
It's repairable with the right tools and skills. At my old workplace, the cars they sold they would get someone in to do all sorts of trim repairs to remove things like that.
 
I reckon they'll be a company out there somewhere that can fix it. Maybe try asking on a more specialised car forum like Pistonheads.

It might be that spray painting it could improve the look of it considerably, as the scratch is white against the grey.

You could try asking Paul Cowland on Twitter for a contact.
 
I bought a Nissan Xtrail once with some pretty scuffed up plastics, I got 90% of them quite presentable using a hot air gun.. YouTube is full of vids.. for harder plastics it’s worth a shot before contemplating replacement.
 
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Nice design on the 8P Audi S3. Whenever the rear seatbelts retract they clatter against the hard plastic to the side of the seats, leaving a lovely mark that will be attractive to potential buyers. Not sure how I could replace that.
 
elrasho said:
Is there a way to remove these scratches on plastic?

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I triage Mguires Ultimate Black but it has no affect. The scratches are not deep as I can't feel them when I run my finger over them
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No, the only way to remove scratches is to remove material, and since it’s textured it would look strange.


You could use a trim restorer though to make the scratches more black and hence more hidden.


This is what I’d do.
 
andy_mk3 said:
It's repairable with the right tools and skills. At my old workplace, the cars they sold they would get someone in to do all sorts of trim repairs to remove things like that.
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yep had a transit dash repaired when i was reshelling it, the vehicle had hit a car park barrier at speed, whole screen splintered and dash scratched to hell and back. company came out took the dash away to there unit, delivered it back 4 days later all done like new cost about 200 quid .
 
gc123 said:
yep had a transit dash repaired when i was reshelling it, the vehicle had hit a car park barrier at speed, whole screen splintered and dash scratched to hell and back. company came out took the dash away to there unit, delivered it back 4 days later all done like new cost about 200 quid .
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seem to remember them saying they flatted ,filled and resprayed the whole dash perfect match:)
 
to the op there must be a product out there maybe try a valeter etc. when we had our newish car it looked great inside after about a month a 3 inch scratch appeared on glovebox lid plastic just like a high heel had caught it......yeah i know but i gave up wearing high heels years ago, they used to be called platforms:)
 
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