Restoring plastic parts with plasic polish
 

Some time ago bought myself a set of 99 spec brake lights, which had some swirls, scratches and few dings. They weren't looking bad in daylight, but I had to address that problem.

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I know there are a lot of methods on restoring plastic but I had tube of plastic polish/scratch remover laying around decided to try it out. I used xerapol - acrylic scratch remover which seems to work pretty good.

Basically you have to put few dips of polishing paste on the cloth and work it using heavy pressure with a finger. Due friction paste heats up and fills all imperfections. It's rather time consuming method because of the small working area. I also found that microfiber cloth for glass cleaning gives somewhat faster results.

Deeper scratches could be sanded out with a 1000 or 800 grit sandpaper and later polished out with the same scratch remover.

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Found out that some of the clear coat had been sprayed on the plastic which had to be removed with sandpaper.

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Ended up like this. Now's the hard part - polishing.

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Still a lot of work left but it looks promising.

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Here is another example of using plastic polish

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In the end I could say that this product works really well. Downside is that it's time consuming and you won't be able to feel your fingers for next few days :)

where do you get that product? never heard of it,ive had good results with the meguiers plastic polish...i would use a power tool attachment for the larger parts

Got it from random automotive parts store in Lithuania. It's made in Germany and it can be found on any eBay. Agree, mequiers are really good. Power tools would help out. I would consider on using small polishing discs as the tube is only 50g / 1.76 oz. and you don't want to waste that stuff

Came out great, good job :icon_tup:

Saw some stuff similar to this today at O'Reilys - wondering about giving it a shot on the side trim.

More specifically - my Mazda emblems (black matte plastic) have some sort of white stain on them - either someone was SUPER stoked to see the car or they dripped wax or something on it. Think this might get that out, or is this stuff more of a 'final touch' polish?

~Geoff