Exterior Scratches on Plastic :finger:

[jimmyvoelker]

Is there anything I can do to hide/cover/fix scratches that I have on the outside plastic panels of my Xterra?

Thanks
Jimmy Voelker

[diversetek]

Same problem i'm having, well mine is beyond minor but still, just incase i get it scratched, how do we remove it? If we can't, how much would the plastic bumper cost?

[rrdstarr]

You guys are hilarious!!! You take your trucks off road, right? Your just gonna get more scratches...
Mother's Back to Black works great at restoring the color...but you'll never get the scratches out!

[diversetek]

I am here for just simple modding... I'm not an off road person. I'm from L.A, but maybe one day I'll go camping with some friends. Off road is just not my style, I don't like taking risks with my car.

[boodie]

Originally posted by rrdstarr
You take your trucks off road, right?...

...Not necessarily on purpose...

I was going down a curve at about 50 the other day, and hit a bunch of [Winter salt/plow damaged] ripples in the pavement...Front end hung on; but the rear end began hopping all over the place...I couldn't hold it straight, had to turn into the impending spin and drove off the shoulder onto the grassy runoff area...

No scratches, and no dry-cleaning bill; but that Add-A-Leaf is starting to look pretty good...

[OffroadX]

Not sure if an AAL would have made a difference, but good shocks probably would have.

Brent

[Schludwiller]

Originally posted by OffroadX
Not sure if an AAL would have made a difference, but good shocks probably would have.

Brent

Yup. Good shocks (Bilsteins) will keep the tires from hopping on washboards, etc. But at 50mph there might have been forces that would override even that.

[Schludwiller]

Originally posted by diversetek
I am here for just simple modding... I'm not an off road person. I'm from L.A, but maybe one day I'll go camping with some friends. Off road is just not my style, I don't like taking risks with my car.

Come on Rick. He live in LA, and calls his Xterra a "car". Pretty obvious he doesn't take it offroad. (just screwing with 'ya Diversetek).

[evergreen]

my truck looks like i drove through a barb wire factory.

[Toy Man]

Those are not scratches, they are 'beauty marks.

Toy Man

[boodie]

Originally posted by Toy Man
Those are not scratches, they are 'beauty marks.

Toy Man

Well, someone left a white/blue 6" beauty mark on one of my rear fender lips [plastic]...

I'm going to try a 3M pad & see if the paint will come off...

The scratch can stay...

[bajadan]

Hola...........I recently returned from Baja and 11 days of offroading.......... where there isn`t................I found my "truck" to be the bearer of new and beautifull "baja pinstriping"..............wonderfull! ..........such charactor!...............jmo leave the beauty marks alone..............hasta