Hi all,

 

I today did the unthinkable and reversed into a metal post protecting a tree. The tree was unharmed, but did some damage to the rear of my car.

 

The black panel which reads '300 ZX' has some scratches on it now caused by the metal bar. Thank god it did not touch my red paintwork.

 

Anyway, does anyone know if it is possible to remove this scratches. The panel is black, but now has some grey scratches, which is the undercoating I think of the panel.

 

Is there any wax, scratch remover, t-cut, etc that could possibly hide or remove the scratches ? Could it be fixed by a bodyshop ?

 

Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

A.

Isnt it solid plastic. You cant T-Cut it, at least I dont think you can. If anything if you read come T-Cut bottles it says keep away from plastics.

The only way I can think of is polish it out, but I dont think that is it that easy.

I polished my my dash with some house hold glass polish and now it has very light scratches on it where the polish has eaten the pastic. After reading the bottle it said do not use on plastic. However you could use this is your advantage.

You will have to be good at polishing and get some good polishing cloths to do it and you MIGHT make it a little better.

Dont hold me responsible if it makes it worse.

 

Hope this is some help.

Its all I can think off.

Stuart

You could just get a new centre section. I believe that Craig has a load of these laying around in his garage.

 

Andy

You can buy little black sticks (like lipstick) that you rub over scratches.

It aint perfect but it might make it look a little better.

Sorry to hear some stoopid tree caused this.

Bloody trees, all they do is sit around all day filtering out all the crap from the atmosphere that us lot spout out from out Zeds, there is no need for them to get so aggressive towards us

 

 

 

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Glen

:)

Or you could get a black vinyl rear strip

from the z centre and stick over the damage?

www.zcentre.co.uk

 

It`ll cost you £35 squid though!

 

Cheerz

Ian

Thanks everyone. I'll try all that tommorrow. I'll let you know what happens.

 

Keep the suggestions coming though.

 

Craig, do you have these black plastic parts ?

 

Thanks.

 

A.

Depending upon how deep the scratches are...

 

...when restoring cars in the past I have used BRASSO to polish plastic lamp lenses to great effect, be *very* careful but if the scratch is deep you can flatten it first with 1200 wet and dry and then buff with Brasso to a high shine.

 

Take it VERY Slowly!

 

Good Luck

 

Tim

 

As always cant accept responsibility if you F**k up the lenses lol

Hi all,

 

Thanks for all the tips on how to fix the scratches. Sorry to say I ignored everyone's advice and tried my own fix !

 

First, I used petrol to buff the scratches. Using petrol was great and it gave it a smooth finish again. I then used black show polish to cover and mask the scratches. This worked great and you can now hardly see the scratches unless you get your specs out.

 

Thanks for the advice all.

 

PS. I met Charlie (in Derby) who has a nice red / maroon colour 300ZX. Nice car and nice chap.

damn, you mean i might have missed out on a sale...

 

everyone else sells stuff off my site, why cant i ? haha

 

ok. i will have a look in my garage tomorrow and see if i still have it, in case you still want to change...