Plastic Trim Scratch

[Ride2little]

Anyone have any tricks to repair/hide surface scratches on the plastic wheel arch of my ‘19 Rebel? I got some tree limb scrapes and buffed out the paintwork. But I’m not sure how to correct the plastic bits.
Thanks for any tips or tricks.

 

[Fatherof3]

I’d really like to know the answer to this also .

 

[Jus Cruisin]

The only thing I can think of is to sand out the scratches and repaint.

 

[Ride2little]

There’s no paint. Just raw, black plastic which has a texture.
I saw on-line some folks heating it up w a heat gun and others heated, sanded, re-textured while still hot.
I may try heat and see what it looks like

 

[LimitedGRR]

There’s no paint. Just raw, black plastic which has a texture.
I saw on-line some folks heating it up w a heat gun and others heated, sanded, re-textured while still hot.
I may try heat and see what it looks like

Be careful, it might warp or the texture surrounding it could get worse. You might consider maybe getting spray on/rattle can Bedliner and spray all of them to protect them? The rattle can stuff has a texture but not like full on bedliner like Linex etc. Or plasti dip? Just throwing ideas out there. I’d be nervous about bringing heat to plastic.


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[1FastHemi]

On my old 06 Ram I had some scratches on the glove box door and some on the door panels. I tried heat from a heat gun and it removed about 70% of the scratches. Be careful, you could warp or melt some pieces or even make shiny spots where it got to hot. I have also heard some people have used a hand held propane torch (Blue Bottle). I was afraid to try this method. Also, don't get the heat of flame to close the plastic until you get use to it. And yes, carpet will melt in a heart beat.

If you are going to do it as mentioned above, start with low heat first and watch what you are doing. Once you make a mistake, there is no going back.

 

[Br549]

Careful on the heat very much will make it shiny.