Maintaining piano black gloss trim
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Despite the use of expensive microfiber cloth I am starting to see early swirling on the interior piano black trim.
I want to fix and then protect it before it becomes more noticeable.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Ps. My own research has raised a few possibilities with products like "Klasse all in one"
Finally any thoughts on using ceramic coatings like cquartz to coat interior trim
I want to fix and then protect it before it becomes more noticeable.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Ps. My own research has raised a few possibilities with products like "Klasse all in one"
Finally any thoughts on using ceramic coatings like cquartz to coat interior trim
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I'm fairly sure the piano black F-Type interior trims are clear coated. On other cars, including the clear coated woodgrain interior panels on my XFS and XFR, I have used two different clear coat scratch removers to good effect - Nu Finish Scratch Doctor and Meguiar's PlastX.
Edit - this inspired me to clean up the piano black bits in the F-Type, as I had never really tackled the fine scratches in them.
PlastX got 95% out, but left some fine marks and cloudiness, mainly around the sound system on/off button.
Finished off the job with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, which got 95% of the remainder out and removed all the cloudiness.
It's possible that Ultimate Compound is all you need unless the scratches are really bad.
Edit - this inspired me to clean up the piano black bits in the F-Type, as I had never really tackled the fine scratches in them.
PlastX got 95% out, but left some fine marks and cloudiness, mainly around the sound system on/off button.
Finished off the job with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, which got 95% of the remainder out and removed all the cloudiness.
It's possible that Ultimate Compound is all you need unless the scratches are really bad.
Last edited by OzXFR; 05-21-2017 at 01:14 AM.
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I'm fairly sure the piano black F-Type interior trims are clear coated. On other cars, including the clear coated woodgrain interior panels on my XFS and XFR, I have used two different clear coat scratch removers to good effect - Nu Finish Scratch Doctor and Meguiar's PlastX.
Edit - this inspired me to clean up the piano black bits in the F-Type, as I had never really tackled the fine scratches in them.
PlastX got 95% out, but left some fine marks and cloudiness, mainly around the sound system on/off button.
Finished off the job with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, which got 95% of the remainder out and removed all the cloudiness.
It's possible that Ultimate Compound is all you need unless the scratches are really bad.
Edit - this inspired me to clean up the piano black bits in the F-Type, as I had never really tackled the fine scratches in them.
PlastX got 95% out, but left some fine marks and cloudiness, mainly around the sound system on/off button.
Finished off the job with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, which got 95% of the remainder out and removed all the cloudiness.
It's possible that Ultimate Compound is all you need unless the scratches are really bad.