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| Author: | Eiji [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Plastic discolouration |
My TX1 is showing signs of cosmetic wear. The interior plastic has loads of marks and discolouration. What is the best way to get rid of them? They aren't deep scratches or anything but the discolouration looks bad. What is the name of the colour that LTI have used on the dark-greyish looking plastic panels on the inside of the cab and dashboard? Anyone else touched up the interior plastics? If so, with what? 
random picture from internet Thanks. |
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| Author: | Nigel [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:55 pm ] |
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Can't help you on this one mate, I can only tell you to get in touch with one of them trim people who go round in the nice white vans with trim repairs on the side. They can re spray your old dashboard I think. |
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| Author: | Chris the Fish [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:18 pm ] |
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I like the picture...... Seems the LTI comes with instruction guides on where to put your feet! Sorry I can't help with your problem. |
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| Author: | MR T [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:20 pm ] |
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What you need is a good cleaning agent.... we use a product called strike ... or use what you can...... spray it on..... clean it off using a cloth and a bucket of warm water.. keep rinsing the cloth .... dry with a clean towel..... the towel is important..... then spray with back to black .... you can get this from T&S Liverpool it will come up clean and shiny and most of the scratches will disappear.. |
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| Author: | Saltmarket [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:13 pm ] |
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I used to work in a company that hired two-way radios. The plastic cases were always coming back discoloured and looking generally manky. Our process was as follows. 1. Clean the case by soaking it in Isopropyl Alcohol. This removed ink, paint, gummy crap and the like. 2. Brisk application of a little boot polish. The kind that comes in the squeezy bottle and is dispensed on a foam pad obviously colour-matched to the plastic case. This was then rubbed in until there was no wipeable residue and was able to be buffed up. 3. Seal the whole thing with spray-on silicone polish and buff to the best shine you can achieve. I used this technique to bring up the dashboards on countless numbers of my cars and it never let me down. The biggest mistake most people make is by slopping on the boot polish. If you get the colour-match right you only need tiny amounts to fill in the discolouration. Hope this helps. 
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| Author: | Eiji [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:48 pm ] |
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Thanks all! I'll get right to it 
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| Author: | GBC [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:32 am ] |
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I've always used Turtle Wax dash cleaner, it seems to leave it shiney and smelling of lavender.
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| Author: | grandad [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:22 am ] |
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Saltmarket wrote: 3. Seal the whole thing with spray-on silicone polish and buff to the best shine you can achieve. Don't use this stuff on the rubber pedals or your feet will slip off. |
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| Author: | Saltmarket [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:34 am ] |
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grandad wrote: Saltmarket wrote: 3. Seal the whole thing with spray-on silicone polish and buff to the best shine you can achieve. Don't use this stuff on the rubber pedals or your feet will slip off. Of course not, dash only, definitely not pedals or wheel. The good thing about it is the way it seals everything and makes it super slippery. You only have to do it once or twice and the dust stops sticking altogether. |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:29 am ] |
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GBC wrote: I've always used Turtle Wax dash cleaner, it seems to leave it shiney and smelling of lavender.
I hate shiney Dashboards on cars...all the reflected light that shines upwards just tends to shine backwards off the windscreen on sunny or bright days and into you eyes..can be dangerous as the glare is like looking into fog and reduces your vision by a fair old percentage.. Far better Matt finishes or better still a rubbery finish on car dashboards.. |
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| Author: | tcabbie [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:52 pm ] |
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Do leather seats in silicone spray and watch the punters slide from one side to the other when you go around a bend 
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| Author: | captain cab [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:51 pm ] |
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tcabbie wrote: Do leather seats in silicone spray and watch the punters slide from one side to the other when you go around a bend
thats always a classic
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| Author: | Saltmarket [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:55 pm ] |
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tcabbie wrote: Do leather seats in silicone spray and watch the punters slide from one side to the other when you go around a bend
And you find yourself talking to a pair of feet. "Oh, did you forget to put your seatbelt on?"
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| Author: | Stationtone [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:23 pm ] |
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I used to use furniture polish on the floor of my cab noir(voyager) ,it was so slippy that when i braked they were unable to stop themselves slippy of the back seat .served them right for not wearing seat belts. |
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| Author: | Doom [ Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:53 am ] |
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Burn it, you'll feel better. 
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