Remove scuffs from plastic trim

sparkymark75

sparkymark75

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The centre console plastic on my Audi has scuff marks on it. Does anyone have recommendations for how best to tidy this up?

I've looked at videos of the Autoglym Magic Sponge and the Meguiars PlastX in action and they both look like they could do the job but they seemed to get used on the rougher door plastics. This is a smooth matt black plastic.

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You might be lucky to have any positive result on that, from memory it's got a sort of 'skin' on it.
 
As @Dis86 mentions the plastic has a soft touch coating to it so you are unlikely to get a good result. You'll need to either spray it with something like plastidip or replace the part. It'd be worth finding out how much a replacement part is first, every time I've needed OEM trim parts they've been suprisingly cheap.
 
You can't really. All you can do is completely remove the soft touch coating so it is uniform hard plastic.
 
I feared as much. It is actually a replacement part as I need to fit it as part of upgrading the MIB1 unit in my car to an MIB2. It didn't look too bad in pictures but when I received it, it's worse and it would bug me. Thankfully the seller accepts returns so I've sent it back. Looks like it's been scuffed by someone wearing a watch or something while in use.
 
Acme said:
You can't really. All you can do is completely remove the soft touch coating so it is uniform hard plastic.
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Remove the switches and soft touch and apply some plastidip... Job done! Alternatively do what I do with my audi, never clean it, hover it or anything so then the whole thing looks a total mess. Win.
 
Abyss said:
Annoyingly it looks like the part is sold with the switches aswell so probably quite expensive.

The part looks like it's "8V0919614" but please check this first!
http://www.oemepc.com/audi/part_sin.../919/subcategory/919000/part_id/258281/lang/e

This might be suitable?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audi-A3-...877066?hash=item3d914ef98a:g:AukAAOSwfcddVCad
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That is the part, although there are various revisions depending on features. The "damaged" one I pictured was the BJ revision (no laughing!) which included the touch/writing feature. I'm not fussy for the touch as I never use it so ordered a better condition BE version (same but without touch/writing feature).
 
I had a similar issue with a soft touch door handle on the drivers side of my E92. In the end I peeled the soft touch material off and just left it as plain black plastic, looked perfectly fine underneath.
 
Burned_Alive said:
I had a similar issue with a soft touch door handle on the drivers side of my E92. In the end I peeled the soft touch material off and just left it as plain black plastic, looked perfectly fine underneath.
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I've also done this to a VW and a Volvo, both with the same result.
 
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