Scratches in dashboard plastic..

My kids have scratched up the passenger side dashboard area by putting their feet up on it. This is the pebbled soft touch stuff above the fake carbon fiber strip, not the strip itself. Any way to reduce or remove these?

Murf said:

My kids have scratched up the passenger side dashboard area by putting their feet up on it. This is the pebbled soft touch stuff above the fake carbon fiber strip, not the strip itself. Any way to reduce or remove these?

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Nothing that I can think of...

I have the same issue, except it was the dealer that put a nice scratch in there while they were detailing the car. Very upsetting, and after talking with a few professional detailers, there is no fix outside of replacing the whole dashboard.

Not the response I was hoping for.

Yeah unfortunately it doesn't look like there is a fix although I'm going to keep looking. I've tried Mothers Plastic Polish but all that did was make the area around the scratch shiny. I've seen people use heat guns on the hard trim plastic of the door panels but I don't think thats a good idea on soft touch stuff.

Extremely annoying because now my eyes are drawn to the area every time I'm in the car.

The heat gun will make it shiny too. It heats the plastic and melts it. I would not recommend that.