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How can I hide a scratch in plastic?

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Somehow I have managed to place a scratch in the grey, metallic like, plastic seat backing of one of my 997 adaptive sport seats. The scratch is not very deep but appears as a thin, near vertically running, straight, white line about three inches long just below the coat hanger.

Does anyone have any helpful suggestions as to how I might camouflage this?

BennyGca Member

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...I've done the same thing... With golf clubs, I think.

In my case I think it would have to be sanded and touched up with some matching paint...

They scratch WAY too easily, I'm probably going to live with it. I'd hate to keep fixing it.

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Most Auto part shops have colored car wax/polish - used to hide scratches on exterior paintwork.

Match the closest version to your seat back - and see how it fares. A plastic polish won't work - since the scratch has removed the paint, and exposed the plastic composite color below - you have to somehow replace the lost color, and the suggested automotive colored wax is probably the easiest solution - other than using a touch up pencil or brush..........

snarf Member

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Most Auto part shops have colored car wax/polish - used to hide scratches on exterior paintwork.

Match the closest version to your seat back - and see how it fares. A plastic polish won't work - since the scratch has removed the paint, and exposed the plastic composite color below - you have to somehow replace the lost color, and the suggested automotive colored wax is probably the easiest solution - other than using a touch up pencil or brush..........

Yes I'm sure you are right, I will check out what coloured waxes are available, other alternatives that have been suggested are shoe polish and a permanent pen marker. My local body shop warned against polishing as this results in a localised high gloss finish that looks wrong against the original matt sheen.

snarf Member

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I thought you might be interested to know that black shoe polish did the trick. Not a perfect solution but good enough to be unnoticable at anything less than a close inspection

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snarf Member

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Black? Aren't the back of your seats silver-grey?

Yes, to be precise it's Volcano Gray. I tried blending grey and black shoe polish to get the correct tone but neat black gave the best result.

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