Scratch on iDrive panel - repair or replace?

[clive_candy]

Managed to scratch the panel in the picture below. Really small but very irritating.

Question is, do I try and repair it or, better, can the panel be replaced? It's a little piece of plastic but no doubt BMW would want big bucks for it!

[drdino]

Could be my monitor, but where is the scratch?

[clive_candy]

drdino said:

Could be my monitor, but where is the scratch?

Not your monitor, just me being lazy and using a pic from the internet to illustrate the bit that's scratched.

[Glassman]

clive_candy said:

drdino said:

Could be my monitor, but where is the scratch?

Not your monitor, just me being lazy and using a pic from the internet to illustrate the bit that's scratched.

Seeing the scratch will be helpful, no?

[ian332isport]

Year and model would help too.

[Luke.]

This thread is hilarious. For what it's worth, I'd just live with it. But given we can't see the scratch, what do I know?

[drdino]

clive_candy said:

Not your monitor, just me being lazy and using a pic from the internet to illustrate the bit that's scratched.

So where is the scratch? On the rectangular(ish) black panel below the idrive controller? If so, I'd get a storage cubby off of Aliexpress (there are two flavours, one with and without a flip-up panel). I've got the latter.

[MitchT]

My girlfriend is ugly, should I dump her? BTW, here's a picture of Margot Robbie.

[clive_candy]

It was more of a 'I don't really think it's possible to repair/cover up a scratch on a piece of plastic so does anyone know if it's possible simply to replace the little piece of plastic you can see in the picture?' kind of post but I didn't make that sufficiently clear.

I'll get a pic of the scratched panel when it stops raining.

[clive_candy]

MitchT said:

My girlfriend is ugly, should I dump her? BTW, here's a picture of Margot Robbie.

Though this is funny.

[MitchT]

Joking aside, if you look on YouTube you'll probably find a video of someone changing one.

[mmm-five]

I've used my CSI skills to enhance the picture, and I can see it now...

Edited by mmm-five on Thursday 12th September 15:19

[rottenegg]

mmm-five said:

I've used my CSI skills to enhance the picture, and I can see it now...

Edited by mmm-five on Thursday 12th September 15:19

You're onto something there! Personalised interior service

As for the scratch, it's that rubberised coating isn't it, so all you can do is remove it off the whole section and repaint it with plastidip. Really not worth the faff.

[mmm-five]

rottenegg said:

As for the scratch, it's that rubberised coating isn't it, so all you can do is remove it off the whole section and repaint it with plastidip. Really not worth the faff.

If it's the same as the iDrive panel on my F31, then it's just a hard textured plastic.