Car salon: how to remove scratches from plastic - only effective and proven ways

"A person is good, since the bright inside. Do not look at the brilliant appearance!" - Nosar Hisro. The same can be said about cars. If the car is beautiful outward, but under its hood is a motor that does not match this appearance - it will never conquer world recognition. Analogy situation and with the interior. Only a beautiful and tidy interior deserves respect for the car and its owner. Agree, you can hardly admire the dirty, "hidden" salon, even though externally, the car is very attractive. In general, there should be harmony, and even if your car is already "not young" and does not pull on the "first beauty", it still needs to be careed.

Scratch. These small, at first glance, invisible and harmless pests, everywhere. On any surface, if you look closely, there are risks, jackets, chips, burrs, yes, how they are just not called and what people do not make rid of them ...

Today I will tell you how to defeat the scratches on the plastic in different ways so that your salon will shine beauty again and looked like a new one. Go...

Types of damage to plastic

Scratches on plastic can be divided into two categories: deep and not very. To remove deep scratches on plastic, a cardinal approach is needed. Such a surface is restored by specialists, while special equipment and materials are used. In some cases, the only output is a complete replacement of the plastic interior detail. I will somehow tell about it in the following articles, and today I will try to help those who have less severe case - small, shallow scratches and risks on plastic.

Small scratches, though less noticeable, but still pretty spoil the appearance of plastic and the entire cabin as a whole. These unpleasant "malyas" appear from careless movements or inaccier and negligent behavior in the car. Over time, small scratches on the plastic form one large web, which turns the glossy surface into the matte, adding the salon for several years, this is especially important when selling a car.

Ways to remove scratches from plastic:

1. Removal of scratches using a hair dryer;
2. Polishing plastic with a special napkin;
3. Removal of small scratches by heating the surface, an open source of fire (practically the same as a hairdryer, only more dangerous);
4. Removal of small scratches by polishing with special polyrollas using polishing machines;
5. Restoration of the plastic surface with a special camouflage pencil;
6. Overhaul of plastic (grinding, primer, painting, etc.).

Now in more detail about each of these methods.

How to remove scratches with industrial hairdryer

For this work, it will be necessary not easy, but industrial or construction as it is also called a hairdryer. The principle is as follows: I exhibit the average temperature of heating and begin to heat the scratch from afar, while we observe its change. If nothing happens, add the temperature and bring the hair dryer closer to the scratch. Here the most important thing is not to do worse, be very attentive and neat, overheating can forever spoil the plastic product, for example, deforming it or having done a hole in it. Removing scratches on plastic with a hair dryer must be completed when the scratch was dragged and became invisible, well, or practically invisible. Do not guide the hot air flow at one point, try to dispel it, it will save you from unnecessary problems. After the scratch went, do not rush to check the smoothness of the surface. First, it is hot and you can burn your fingers, and secondly, on the hot plastic, the prints of your fingers can remain, which will then be very difficult to remove.

Remove risks and scratching lighter

This method is similar to the previous one, since it is built on the same principle. For this work, a lighter will be required, in which the gas is fed under pressure, forming a flame like a flame of autogen. This lighter is also called a "turbo-lighter". It is necessary to act more carefully, since the flame is much faster heats the surface and with an incorrect approach can harm the plastic surface. I click the button lighter, during these clicks the flame will melt the jackets, thereby making them less noticeable.

Removal scratches with a special napkin

There are special napkins that can be quickly and effectively remove scratches from plastic. The video located just below is perfectly visible how these napkins work well. Napkins on the principle of heating and polishing are operating: the surface of the plastic is heated and the scratch is delayed. There are also napkins with a special polyrolh, which are a manual analogue of a polishing machine.

How to close scratches with a napkin - video

Repair of damaged plastic polishing

Polishing is one of the most popular plastic restoration methods, but it is not suitable for all types of plastic. The glossy surfaces or those covered with a layer of paint and varnish can be polished. This method is practically no different from the ordinary polishing of the body, which thousands of articles and benefits are written on the Internet. The principle is quite simple, a special polyrolol is applied, after which, with the help of a polishing machine, the surface is communicated to the perfect state. If the damaged plastic is matte or has a structure, polished can hardly restore the surface.

Actual:

Disguise scratches with a special pencil

This method is perhaps the easiest and requires a minimum of skills, however, the effect after it is not always perfect. As a rule, scratches become less noticeable, but instead of them, spots from a pencil appear on plastic, which differs from plastic in color. Why is different? Because it is very difficult to find a recovery pencil into your salon, and sometimes it is impossible at all. In addition, the pencil does not fill and does not eliminate scratches, he only masks them. If this method is suitable, you can easily use them, but as I said, do not expect any "excess" from him.

Alternative ways to remove scratches on plastic (painting, vinyl, carbon, leather, etc.)

If the surface is very damaged and the restoration is meaningless, or simply did not give the desired result, you can use one more, not the cheapest, of course, but very effective plastic restoration options.

Painting. Everything is very simple here, the surface is prepared under painting, after which it is covered with several layers of paint and varnish. The option is not bad, but not the cheapest, plus is not always and not everywhere you can use it.

Vinyl. The direction popular has recently, it will completely come to disguise damage on the plastic. The item is simply tightened into a film that looks decent and masks scratches.

Carbon. This is perhaps the most expensive and difficult way to remove scratches, as carbon is expensive and in most cases the value of the material exceeds the cost of the part itself. Therefore, before resorting to such a way, think, maybe it will be cheaper and better will simply replace a damaged card, a door handle or plastic panels.

Leather. A pretty good way to retesting your salon, in the end you and the salon will make more attractive, and scratched scratches. The only negative is that it is not possible to integrate the skin into each salon. In some cars, the salon is completely velor or rag, and if you cover some details of your salon, such as door cards, leather, the view can be quite ridiculous. Before proceeding with such work, consult with experts and "count" how everything will look like that later I don't have to get sidden or change.