Dash trim scratches?
 

I was at the dealership drooling over some FR-S's and I got to sit in a nice red 6MT model. It ended up belonging to the owner of the dealership and he puts his car up for display and lets customer sit in it and take a look.

Anyway, he'd been driving it for a few weeks now and I suppose to keep the dust down and keep things clean, he'd been wiping the dash with a cloth or something. I couldn't help but notice the "carbon fibre" dash trim had tons of little scratches all over it.

Has anyone else noticed that that trim piece is easily scratched / scuffed? Is there a way to protect it?

Funny, I just noticed some dust on that piece in front of the passenger. Wiped it down with my hand, now it has micro scratches all over it :brokenheart:

can you take a picture?

Subaru dash pieces are notoriously easy to scratch.

maybe i will opticoat my dash :D

I noticed this also. Really watching out for it now.

True.

I was looking to cover mine in leather with red stitching to match the car. The upholstery shop I have typically gone to indicated that the the leather is just too thick to be able to properly cover these pieces.

Anyone had any luck with something similar?

+1 that idea :)

Mine does this too. Take a good quality wax and wax your panel like you would wax your car. Now it's really harder to see the scraches plus it's now shiiinnyyy :P

I use one of those California dash dusters. Great for removing dust and such. I use it daily and on my '06 GTI and no scratches even after six years and 95,000 miles.

Leather might be too thick, but I bet that 3M DiNoc stuff would work awesome! Not to mention it's basically what it already looks like, only with some texture you can actually feel!

http://nextmod.com/webstore/images/detailed/3M.jpg

Buy one of these and leave in the garage, it's guaranteed that you won't get scratches anywhere.

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