Interior scratches?

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Discussion Starter · Mar 5, 2017

I know a lot of you are very fanatical as I am about your CR-Z. I was cleaning out my car and I noticed some of the hard plastic has some scratches. Some caused by me some caused when work was done on the car. What do you you all do to hide or minimize scratches in the pebbled and smooth plastic inside your CR-Z?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.:smile2:

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Defiant

· #2 · Mar 6, 2017

Either the smooth or the textured inside plastics are rather soft, it seems. I don't know if there's a more effective solution than to camouflage it. I'd use 303 Aerospace Protectant. It can be fussy to find, but Amazon has it. They've been around a long time, but are only now getting serious about the customer market, it seems. Think of it like a grown-up Armor All.

I find some polarized sunglasses make my dashboard look like it hosted a hockey playoff. Odd.

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Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 6, 2017

Defiant said:
Either the smooth or the textured inside plastics are rather soft, it seems. I don't know if there's a more effective solution than to camouflage it. I'd use 303 Aerospace Protectant. It can be fussy to find, but Amazon has it. They've been around a long time, but are only now getting serious about the customer market, it seems. Think of it like a grown-up Armor All.

I find some polarized sunglasses make my dashboard look like it hosted a hockey playoff. Odd.

I have used Back to Black and a similar product from Meguire's on the interior panels and for the dash and dash top pocket it gets rid of what you are seeing with the polarized sunglasses. When it is paid off and if I have some money I may wrap the panels in something higher class and less fragile or maybe some other treatment:dunno:

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keithjmason

· #4 · Apr 5, 2017

It seems to be possible to improve this with a heat gun (used carefully) - not sure if anyone on here has tried that technique.

I think i'd rather try it on a scrap part first however

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Koala Yummies

· #5 · Apr 5, 2017

For the glossy interior trim pieces a good technique is to rotate whatever cloth is being used up and away as you wipe the surface so any material picked up isn't rubbed back against the surface but is instead lifted away. Use a clean rag each time or unused portion of it.

So you have the rag in your hand and as you wipe twist/rotate your hand with the rag so only clean cloth is touching the surface. If one just wipes haphazardly then anything on the surface that gets picked up by the rag is acting like an abrasive.

Also as per the thread you linked in your other thread on interior scratches I'd avoid using any greasy oily or overly harsh products (armor all for example, a bunch of the members there reported the problems after using those types products). Clean water or diluted stoner brand invisible glass is all I've used on my 2011 original owner interior, perfect dash.

And when wearing polarized sunglasses the dash almost looks like its made of suede or felt to me so might want to change the cleaning products used on these surfaces.

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Discussion Starter · #6 · Apr 5, 2017

In my case it is scratches in the hard textured plastics for the console and interior panels some put in by the dealer others from a bicycle I moved that slid during the trip.

The glossy trim around the mirror controls was scratched by me wiping with a very clean microfiber towel while dusting :frown2:

Koala Yummies said:
For the glossy interior trim pieces a good technique is to rotate whatever cloth is being used up and away as you wipe the surface so any material picked up isn't rubbed back against the surface but is instead lifted away. Use a clean rag each time or unused portion of it.

So you have the rag in your hand and as you wipe twist/rotate your hand with the rag so only clean cloth is touching the surface. If one just wipes haphazardly then anything on the surface that gets picked up by the rag is acting like an abrasive.

Also as per the thread you linked in your other thread on interior scratches I'd avoid using any greasy oily or overly harsh products (armor all for example, a bunch of the members there reported the problems after using those types products). Clean water or diluted stoner brand invisible glass is all I've used on my 2011 original owner interior, perfect dash.

And when wearing polarized sunglasses the dash almost looks like its made of suede or felt to me so might want to change the cleaning products used on these surfaces.

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Defiant

· #7 · Apr 6, 2017

Koala Yummies said:
....And when wearing polarized sunglasses the dash almost looks like its made of suede or felt to me so might want to change the cleaning products used on these surfaces.

When I got mine, about a year old, the detailing wonk at the dealership had cracked open a side window and used a funnel to completely fill the interior with god-knows-what (well, maybe.... omniscience only goes so far) kind of silicone-rich fluid and let it sit for a week. I thought I'd never get that crap to go away. And still, polarized glassed make sunlight do odd things with the dash, purples and stuff. Or, perhaps it's the fumes.

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ncgeek

· #8 · Sep 25, 2017

The silver plastic door handles have scratches on my Z and will try 303 to see if I get any results.
It would be nice if there were a way to restore them.

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