Removing scratches/scuffs from gloss black plastic

[Jonny Wishbone]

Exterior trim; but basically the same stuff as piano black interior trim. I'm not bothered about the hairlines but there is a scuff on one of the trim pieces on the door which I see every single time I open the car which is triggering me. Google doesn't come up with much (Megs Plastrx is for clear plastic). I skim read the other front page thread on black plastic but the suggestions on there are more for refreshing/reviving rather than scuff removal. Apols if I've missed something obvious.

[Carlososos]

Jonny Wishbone said:

Exterior trim; but basically the same stuff as piano black interior trim. I'm not bothered about the hairlines but there is a scuff on one of the trim pieces on the door which I see every single time I open the car which is triggering me. Google doesn't come up with much (Megs Plastrx is for clear plastic). I skim read the other front page thread on black plastic but the suggestions on there are more for refreshing/reviving rather than scuff removal. Apols if I've missed something obvious.

I don’t think there is really a repair for piano black stuff, normally it’s bin and replace unless you sand and repaint probably to something different as getting it piano again is going to be tough.

[Iceblue]

Jonny Wishbone said:

Exterior trim; but basically the same stuff as piano black interior trim. I'm not bothered about the hairlines but there is a scuff on one of the trim pieces on the door which I see every single time I open the car which is triggering me. Google doesn't come up with much (Megs Plastrx is for clear plastic). I skim read the other front page thread on black plastic but the suggestions on there are more for refreshing/reviving rather than scuff removal. Apols if I've missed something obvious.

I,ve used Tcut (metallic) to buff out scratches on the gloss black trim on my Golf R buff out vigorously with a dampened microfibre cloth wipe off then use a mild abrasive polish like Autoglym super resin polish, repeat again if not perfect.

[Jonny Wishbone]

Iceblue said:

I,ve used Tcut (metallic) to buff out scratches on the gloss black trim on my Golf R buff out vigorously with a dampened microfibre cloth wipe off then use a mild abrasive polish like Autoglym super resin polish, repeat again if not perfect.

Thanks for this suggestion. Whilst I didn’t go for it due to a fear of ballsing it up given the abrasiveness of T Cut your post prompted me to do some research and I bought a Novus plastic polish kit. I’ve just spent 10 minutes and I’m pretty impressed. The scuff has been buffed out and all that remains are a couple of tiny scratches which are deep enough to be felt with a nail (so I wouldn’t expect to be able to easily buff these out). What’s more is it’s done wonders for reducing the swirls on the trim. I’m sure that with more time and patience I could get the trim into almost as new condition. I have no doubt this will work on interior black gloss plastic trim too. I would recommend.

[Funk]

I can't stand this trend for gloss black plastic everywhere, it just looks st and tired in no time at all.

Actually it doesn't even look that good when brand new either.