Hi, today I want to find out how to restore plastic pieces.

Here are the plastic panels I want to fix.



This is the damage I want to repair.



Once I sand down the melted hi spots and fill the low spots what do you recommend to coat the piece to remove all the scratches?

I was thinking about spraying the parts with plastic paint if there is even such a thing!

Any ideas will be appreciated.

These are the panels on either side of the hood latch and are the first thing you notice upon opening the hood. So the better they look the better the impression you make opening your hood to a interested person!

 

luckily this is ABS plastic, if you really would like to worry about this piece you can use acetone to recondition the surface, to repair it or to build up areas that need it.

same principle as seen here:

acetone will basically temporarily melt the surface and allow it to lay flay and blend into other nearby areas.

 

I've used heat to reform some bumper cover problems, but on this, I would cut the
section out, fiberglass, filler, paint.

 

using two completely different materials to fill a hole is never really ideal, especially since ABS is a rather easy thing to repair.

 

Thanks for the info about acetone, I will try it out on my panel!

I am trying to use all the stock pieces of my rx7 that I can restore for the next person who get my car!