About the best you can do is a little vinyl dressing to help hide the dullness of the abrasion. Alternatively, a little shoe polish in a close color match might be worth a try.
Yeah, you can't really polish that out. It'll make the plastic look shiny and weird. I'd rub it with a damp Mr Clean Magic Eraser. And then cover with a little interior protectant.
Heat up that sticker with a hair dryer and then pick at it with your finger nail. Some Goo Gone will clean up the sticky stuff thats left over.
Just be careful using the goo gone with plastics. It might melt the plastic. If you want to be safe, use WD40 on the sticker. Sounds weird, but it really works well. After all the stick residue is gone, just wash the WD40 off.
Yeah Goo Gone is pretty safe on plastic. Although I probably wouldn't use it on clear plastic, like a gauge cluster. I only use Goo Gone when simple interior type cleaners aren't strong enough.
Little late on the post, but searching some old threads came across this one. Those scratches drive me crazy on my interior. I found vaseline to work and last very well. Just put it on a rag and polish untill all the shine from the vaseline is gone and the scratch is condition back to an unnoticable finish. The vaseline, for me, seems to outlast all the protectants I've tried. Hope this helps for anyone looking.
Never heard of the Vaseline method, but I'll give that a try. My Highlander has developed a boatload of scratches in the rear I'd like to get rid of. I'll try your technique and post back what I find.
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Yeah, I had never heard of it either untill a friend of mine, who is service manager of a local dealer, told me thats what they use to help restore interiors on trade-ins before they put them back for sale. It's now the only method I use getting those scratches to disappear. I use it on the light grey plastic. Don't have any scratches on the upper black part of the doors so I'm not sure how it would work there, but good luck.
I finally set aside some time today to tackle the numerous scratches in the back of my Highlander and I have to say the Vaseline trick works very well. I'll still reserve judgment for how long it lasts, but in the short term I'm impressed. For some of the deeper gouges my camping gear put in the plastic I used a fine file and worked down the plastic burrs, then applied the Vaseline and whamo! they pretty much disappeared. Thanks for posting that tip...worthwhile!
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