Interior Tidy Up

[Best in Red]

Hi, 

 

My Gen 1 is in great nick apart from some irritating scratches on the hard black interior plastics around the drivers door handle surround and also the centre consul, basically look like ring damage. Rather than replace is there a process to refurb them, read somewhere about applying heat.

 

Appreciate any tips or knowledge on where to go around the Peterborough area to have this sorted.

 

On another matter, passenger airbag warning light needs replacing (cracked), is this a simple prise it out and plug a new one in or will the airbag system need resetting in any way?

 

Appreciate the advice

 

Steve

[sevenfourate]

14 minutes ago, Best in Red said:

Hi, 

 

My Gen 1 is in great nick apart from some irritating scratches on the hard black interior plastics around the drivers door handle surround and also the centre consul, basically look like ring damage. Rather than replace is there a process to refurb them, read somewhere about applying heat.

 

Appreciate any tips or knowledge on where to go around the Peterborough area to have this sorted.

 

On another matter, passenger airbag warning light needs replacing (cracked), is this a simple prise it out and plug a new one in or will the airbag system need resetting in any way?

 

Appreciate the advice

 

Steve

 

 

Applying heat technique is usually done to fading / greying exterior black plastic to encourage the oils in the plastic to the surface again - which gets them from grey to black again. This isn't usually the case on an interior.

 

Plus the Gen1's have a soft-touch rubberised coating on some interior parts (Centre console for example ?) and if 're-furbing' - this needs to come off first and foremost. Acetone does a great job of this i'm lead to believe.

 

I'm about to do the same thing to mine over the winter. And in terms of the centre console; i think i'm going to remove it and have painted black with a Satin type lacquer to blend in with the cars age etc - not a bright / gloss Piano type black finish as used in many modern BMW's, Audi's and the like.......

 

Good luck.