How to get smears of Instrument cluster plastic

[MattR]

just bought a 200sx and someone has tried to clean the plastic that covers the instrument cluster and now it is all smeary and horrible, any ideas how to get it back to clear plastic? Cheers Matt

[sewid]

brasso. its an abrasive polish so it should cut the plastic back a bit. works good on plastic - eg R33 headlights.

[Stirlo_GTR]

My G/f's Car had the same thing, had to take the screen out/off and used cut and polish, and a large amount of elbow grease, came up tops..

[meshmesh]

"Plexus" you can get it from autobarn etc...

[Chris32]

Matt

funnily enough I had the same thing on my 32, used a Meguiars polish, cant remember the exact name but it was called Paint Cleaner or something like that, used it on my car to get rid of old polish etc.

Worked a treat, did it about 3 or 4 times, looks better than new - will try and get the name of the stuff

[PHaT MR30]

i have this stuff called plastic polish at home, ill check what its called when i get home tonight

[Guest RedLineGTR]

Is the plastic just dirty??? or does it have scratches in it??

If its just dirty try some glass cleaner or something not to harsh. If it has some scratches and bonded contaminants, if your stuck on ideas or cant be bothered going in to the shops then you can try some furtniture polish (Mr Sheen..etc) but one of the products i have used on my dash and also on cd's etc is Meguires Plastic Polish & Meguires Plastic Cleaner with the combination of both the results are nearly as good as brand new. See How you Go.

Cheers Rob

[the phantom]

Plain old toothpaste and elbow grease will work on polishing out scratches from the plastic instrument lens...tried it and it works well.

[MattR]

cheers guys, used Brasso and it worked a treat. took all of about 2minutes looks as good as new