Interior panel scratches HELP

[DSalisbury]

I have some MAXL One ceramic spray on coating. I sprayed on scratches above door handle and immediately wiped off and it is gone! Interior.

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[MattTX]

Quick update on those two trim pieces that don't fit properly in my 2024 Maverick. I went to my local dealership yesterday and after waiting about an hour the service rep let me know they'd be ordering new trim pieces and it was all covered under warranty. He also said there is a TSB for the trim pieces, though in doing a quick search here and on Ford's TSB / recall / customer satisfaction program site I didn't see one for it.

 

[Manollo3]

303 spray protectant covers them up pretty well

Yeah, absolutely. Have been using 303 for years already. Dated back to the days when I have a sailboat and it was great to protect everything from the sun. Love this stuff.

 

[EJK33]

Yup...I've already run into this. 303 will help mask it, but breaking out a heat gun is the only real solution, IMHO. Just be patient/careful at first and you'll get a feel for it. It's not going to hurt anything unless you literally hold it there long enough to actually melt the plastic...but heat is the answer for scrapes/scratches/ light gouges. 303 overtop of it after the fact, will together make a pretty big difference and can clean about 95% of it up. It's going to be a regular occurence though and be inevitable that there will be some marks that won't perfectly come out...it's horribly cheap plastic.

 

[Waterick]

Yeah, absolutely. Have been using 303 for years already. Dated back to the days when I have a sailboat and it was great to protect everything from the sun. Love this stuff.

Use care when using that 303 stuff. There's a thread on here where someone permanently mared their lenses on the instrument panel with accidental over spray.

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

Use care when using that 303 stuff. There's a thread on here where someone permanently mared their lenses on the instrument panel with accidental over spray.

Absolutely correct. If you want to use it on the interior dash of the Maverick spray it on the cloth first outside of vehicle then wipe it on the dash.
Below is an example of what happens if overspray gets on the instrument panel.

Long story short, I cleaned my vehicle with 303 Vehicle Interior cleaner and evidently, it etched my gauge cluster on my XLT.
I ordered a lariat cluster lens (Cluster Lens - Ford (M1PZ-10890-A)) - and this lens does not fit the XLT//XL trucks.
Despite contacting Ford corporate, my local ford dealer, and numerous parts suppliers, not a single soul can find a new gauge cluster lens part number for the XLT models.
Do these exist, and how can I get this ordered to end the suffering of etched instrument cluster plastic?

Thanks in advance, everyone!

 

[EJK33]

Here's a big one...go buy a pack of Crayola Crayons and target "Cadet Blue". Not making this up...it's useless on the non/less textured panels, but on that "checkered/waffled" top panel and the like...the wax fills in the ding and the color is a 98% dead-match. Just use your finger and some elbow grease to rub and blend it all in and it's pretty amazing...

Seriously, just go to town on the scratch and remember to rub it like mad afterwards. It'll look like a disaster at first, but then it'll leave you speechless once you start buffing it into thr plastic. This is the best filler/pigment match I've figured out yet. 100% only for the textured part only though.

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