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Piano black trim - surface swirls /scratches

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Piano black trim - surface swirls /scratches

Post by Gjm91 » Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:56 am

Hi All been getting my new E89 upto my standard of clean and have noticed the piano black trim around the gear selector is full of surface swirls and scratches - nothing deep but quite noticeable - has anyone any tips /product suggestions for sorting this out - many thanks G
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Piano black trim - surface swirls /scratches

Post by ph001 » Wed Jul 10, 2019 11:18 am

You can polish them out the same as you would your paintwork. I used a small 1” pad on my da polisher. You don’t need an aggressive compound..it’s considerably softer than the paint top coat. I guess you could do it by hand pretty easy with something like megs ultimate compound.
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Piano black trim - surface swirls /scratches

Post by Gjm91 » Wed Jul 10, 2019 3:56 pm

Cheers for the tip ph001 will have a go at weekend - G
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Post by Vijay » Tue Jul 30, 2019 6:10 pm

Use some wet and dry 3000m then polish. they will come out...
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Piano black trim - surface swirls /scratches

Post by ph001 » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:21 pm

I would suggest wet and dry is far too aggressive on that.
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