Member Since: 16 Jan 2007
Location: Hornchurch Essex
Posts: 1789
Scratched trim
I couldn't be bothered to wash my D3 last week and took it to a hand car wash place locally. Used them loads of times (lazy fat ba$tard=me) for my previous car and the wifes TT. Never had a problem before. I didn't notice at the time of cleaning, but when I got home I leathered a few water streaks and found a scratch on the plastic trim cladding to the lower tailgate. Because this panel is so big and plain it shows the scratch in all it's glory. I may have had the scratch there before the clean and washing it just made it more obvious. Whatever!
Anyone know of a knack to remove the mark without making it worse? FFRR 2017 4.4SDV8 Autobiography. Cost so much I must be mad!
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31st Jan 2007 7:17 am
pjv
Member Since: 22 Sep 2006
Location: Northwest
Posts: 184
Scratched Car
Good news - the 3 yr old cleaned my D3 (and the wife's X Trail) today all on his own.
Bad news - his sponge was a sharp rock!
Anbody advise on polishing scratches out and legalities of auctioning a young child
31st Jan 2007 8:25 pm
DN D3 Decade
Member Since: 24 Jun 2006
Location: W.London.
Posts: 2296
I've collected scratches on this panel, 1 long one each side, and I think they were done at dealers, probably when washing it, and pulling a hose or something across the back end of the car. Yup it annoys me too, don't seem to be able to get them to show less either.
31st Jan 2007 8:49 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72799
Re: Scratched Car
pjv wrote:
Anbody advise on polishing scratches out and legalities of auctioning a young child
Don't auction, think of the tax retun complications. Just tell the recipient that it is a gift!
31st Jan 2007 8:50 pm
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15214
Golden Rule is....
Don't Let Anyone Wash Your D3
... except yourself [and poss dealer, cos they do it anyway].I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
31st Jan 2007 8:51 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72799
Spent half the morning cleaning mine! Now gleaming!
31st Jan 2007 8:54 pm
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15214
washing mine tomorrow morning .... cos the wifes at work.
[if I do mine, I got to do hers ]
was going to do it this afternoon but she came home early!!
shiny java tomorrow I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
31st Jan 2007 9:25 pm
THUB
Member Since: 10 Dec 2005
Location: West Berkshire.
Posts: 717
Big scratches.
Try Trimline Systems of Aldershot Hants. Kev Allwood on 07774 278773
Phil Allwood on 07778 895257.
My local dealer recommended them when I melted part of my interior trim (plastic) They did superb job and rates were reasonable. Best of all they come to you!
31st Jan 2007 9:52 pm
fisherman
Member Since: 16 Jan 2007
Location: Hornchurch Essex
Posts: 1789
You gotta be right Ronp.
Just washed it myself today. Just needed the motivation from somewhere and found it by walking round and thinking how it looked dusty (having just had it washed on Sunday). Where I'd wiped the rear screen it had left dusty streaks down the tailgate. Next thing I knew I was running a bucket of water and getting stuck in. Took about 40 minutes of slog but it looks a treat and well worth the effort. Ronp just give me a kick now and then to remind me I owe it a wash just because it makes me so happy. FFRR 2017 4.4SDV8 Autobiography. Cost so much I must be mad!
D4 HSE 2012 Like a second wife, more expensive but goes better! I almost cried this time!
D3 HSE 2006 (Almost 8 years together, true love)
Land Cruiser VX 1994 11 years together, wife cried when I p/ex'd for my D3
1st Feb 2007 12:20 am
Mr Bling
Member Since: 06 Mar 2006
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 259
Get yourself some "Finesse-it" by 3M - it's a micro-abrasive (like T-cut, but far supeior and less aggressive)
Damned expensive (about £15/litre), but lasts forever, and gets out all sorts of scuffs and scratches.2005 Disco 3 TDV6 7 seater. Leather, DVD, fully colour-coded.
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