Scratch and scrape..

[96CivicEX06]

Alright, since I bought my civic used, there's some flaws here and there. I want to try to fix these minor flaws, so here goes. The plastic piece housing the speakers in the back and the third brake light is scratched a good amount near the rear-view window. I'm guessing since the car does have some light tint on it, the tinters used a scraper tool like a hamburger flipper to get the film on the rv window and in the process scratched the plastic, so I guess they were either lazy or didn't know how to remove the back part and the third-brake light cuz there's no tint behind the third-brake light. What I wanna know is there anyway I could try to fix the scratches on the plastic? Would using a hair-drier to "melt" the plastic somewhat then molding the scratch ends together help or should I just leave it?

[E-Mang]

Originally Posted by 96CivicEX06

Alright, since I bought my civic used, there's some flaws here and there. I want to try to fix these minor flaws, so here goes. The plastic piece housing the speakers in the back and the third brake light is scratched a good amount near the rear-view window. I'm guessing since the car does have some light tint on it, the tinters used a scraper tool like a hamburger flipper to get the film on the rv window and in the process scratched the plastic, so I guess they were either lazy or didn't know how to remove the back part and the third-brake light cuz there's no tint behind the third-brake light. What I wanna know is there anyway I could try to fix the scratches on the plastic? Would using a hair-drier to "melt" the plastic somewhat then molding the scratch ends together help or should I just leave it?

yeah, sounds like how i bought my civic too, but mine was a 95, there were a couple minor problems with mine and i never bothered to fix them, but then the problems started snowballing and now i'm drivinga peice of crap civic with wayyyy too much money invested in it. So yeah, you might wanna get all that stuff fixed ASAP, because if you don't eventually you won't give a shit and then you'll be sorry.

[96CivicEX06]

Yeah, I'll try using the heat gun tomorrow, the rear-view window looks like a B-I-T-C-H to get the tint off of. I already took off the corner windows and the two driver/passenger windows and that took me some time, but this looks like it's going to be hard. Anyone know what the electrical joints on the side of the window are for?

[knorwj]

Originally Posted by 96CivicEX06

Anyone know what the electrical joints on the side of the window are for?

rear defroster?

[96CivicEX06]

I've heard something about an antenna with an adhesive attached to the rear window... maybe that's it? I have no clue but was just asking.