Heater / Electric panel plate - precat

[Hoover.]

The black panel on which the heating and window controls are mounted is to what I refer........ the face of mine has been superficially scratched and I was wondering if this type of plastic is what is referred to as acrylic..... can anybody inform me?

I ask as I've just bought a 3 stage polishing systems for plastic (Novus) and it recommends to only use the stage 3 on acrylics..... in the ideal world I would try this on a hidden place to see the results, but the whole panel is in full view.

Cheers from Hoover, looking to someone who knows about these things.

[PeteGriff]

Hoover. said:

The black panel on which the heating and window controls are mounted is to what I refer........ the face of mine has been superficially scratched and I was wondering if this type of plastic is what is referred to as acrylic..... can anybody inform me?

I ask as I've just bought a 3 stage polishing systems for plastic (Novus) and it recommends to only use the stage 3 on acrylics..... in the ideal world I would try this on a hidden place to see the results, but the whole panel is in full view.

Cheers from Hoover, looking to someone who knows about these things.

Hi Hoover, this panel is acrylic (i.e. perspex), but be careful as I think my old plastic panel was coated to make it black on the surface, the actual material being clear acrylic. If you can ascertain that yours is actually a black material you can polish out the scratches easily with a car polish! I have polished perspex before now with 'T-Cut' and finished it with a car polish! Hope that's of help? Pete

[Hoover.]

Pete if I were a betting man you would of been my fav to have the answer......

I'll have another look at it to see how its made black..... thinking about it must be sort of clear to get the light to shine through it to highlight the controls

Got damaged when someone was working on the dash binical making the leather look better..... would of rather had tatty leather then damaged trim to truth be told.... as leather can be replaced, plastic trim is no more

[Barreti]

There is also something called Polywatch which is used to polish scratches out of acrylic watch glass. It comes in a pathetic little tube but don't let that put you off, you use a tiny bit on a cotton wool ball and polish one way then at right angles. Its marvellous stuff and will remove all but the very worst scratches.

[Wildfire]

Sounds a bit stupid, but toothpaste does work on minor scratches in Perspex.

On a side note, anyone know where I can get another one? Mine broke some years ago