Author: Gone Years
Hello, everyone, I am the years, and I haven’t seen you for a long time~
Recently, I’m really too busy (lan) so N hasn’t written an original for a long time, and the friends have written a circle of old driver cheats, basically, all the old driver cheats are almost finished, from maintenance, to self-driving, from car washes, to car wash supplies, this is simply not to give me this pseudo old driver to live ah, after thinking about it, I really don’t know what to write, write cheap car wash, credit card car wash? This coincides with what the great god wrote before, give up, just when you are in a desperate situation, you accidentally see a small scratch on the central control of the car, if you have, then write the repair of interior scratches ~~
This article is not long, a total of 32 pictures, about 3300 words, you can read casually, I hope it will be helpful to all real drivers.
Product introduction
The two contestants who participated in the test this time were QUIXX from Germany, which according to the introduction is specially designed to repair minor scratches on plastic products, and the other is 3M polish, which is also used to repair scratches on plastic products according to Taobao’s keyword search. As for other so-called scratch wax and other products, they are basically not very reliable and are not in the scope of discussion.
▼ The first thing I saw was the QUIXX polish imported from Germany, after opening the box, in addition to containing a tube of polishing agent, I also sent two polishing cloths, and two small pieces of sandpaper, because the sandpaper cut is very small, you can’t see the specific mesh, and the visual inspection should be more than 1000 mesh. This small tube polish is only 50 grams, JD costs 121, Taobao is slightly lower, around 98.
Germany imported QUIXX fast cresp repair paste polishing paste grinding paste car dashboard tail light acrylic mahogany piano paint watch glass repair QUIXX 50 grams repair paste 121.5 yuan
▼ And 3M polishing liquid, there are no auxiliary supplies, you need to prepare your own polishing cloth, but the content of the two is still quite different, the former is only 50 grams, and this large can of 3M has 1000 grams, the price is similar, but the amount is 20 times worse.
▼ The polish is ready, please come out of this test supplies below, the first is my homemade air quality detector, the acrylic trim purchased at that time, there is a piece of innate flaw, and the two piano paint veneers specially purchased at the same time.
▼This is the piano paint veneer of the steering wheel of the Volkswagen High 7.
▼This is the old high-end Cruze air conditioning veneer, all piano paint veneer.
▼Before the test, let’s take a group photo. At this time, the two veneers are still brand new, and after a while, I will use a small driver to manually create scratches of different shades to test whether the two polishes on top are effective.
Test the process
▼ A simple distinction was made with masking paper, with the QUIXX polish test area on the left and 3M on the right.
▼ First, a small driver was used to make deep, deep, and shallow on the steering wheel decoration cover of the Volkswagen High 7, 3 pairs, a total of 6 scratches, and the polish of QUIXX and 3M was tested respectively.
▼ This is on the piano paint veneer of the Cruze, also made deep, deep and shallow 3 pairs of scratches, using QUIXX and 3M polishing agents respectively.
▼Try QUIXX’s polish first, squeezed into a medium-viscous milky white liquid, without any taste. Slightly greasy, probably because of the added lubricant.
▼According to the product introduction, after applying the polish, it is recommended to leave it for 8 minutes, and then wipe it with a matching cotton cloth for 10-15 minutes. It seems that polishing scratches is also an individual task!
▼After applying the polish as required, schedule it for 8 minutes, and polish it later.
▼ Let’s take a look at the polish of 3M, this large bottle, the cap can be unscrewed directly, the same milky white slightly viscous liquid, smell, has a slight sweetness.
▼The correct way to open the cap is to squeeze out the polishing liquid by pulling it out forcefully, and its viscosity is more viscous than QUIXX, because 3M is not equipped with polishing cotton cloth, and the polished cotton cloth supplied by Q is directly used here
▼The seller’s introduction, its main function is to remove 1000-1500 mesh sandpaper sandpaper after sanding marks and fine scratches.
▼ Then, next, let’s really see the actual effect, first look at the transparent acrylic plate that is messed in
Because it was messed in, in fact, this product was the last polished, and the arm was already tired at that time, so the original plan was to test QUIXX and 3M separately, but in the end, only the polishing effect of QUIXX was tested, and the effect is as follows:
In the green circle part, the original defects are basically polished clean, and some residues should be completely cleaned up by further polishing, which can basically perfectly polish off such defects that protrude outside the plane, and there are no sandpaper and other polishing residues, etc., quite delicate and smooth.
▼As for the test of piano paint veneer, what is the real scratch repair effect?
This is the No. 1 scratch, is the deepest of the three scratches, after applying QUIXX polish to the scratch and standing for 8 minutes, grind hard for about 10 minutes (not grinding for 15 minutes, too tired, after all, there is no unicorn arm), through the comparison before and after polishing, it can be seen that the scratch has indeed become slightly shallower, but because the original scratch is relatively deep, through the polish, there is no way to deal with it, maybe grind for half an hour an hour, may be able to polish the scratch off, In fact, the scratches are eliminated by sanding the entire piece of plastic, and it is uncertain how much impact it will have on the original piano paint surface, and it can be seen from the photos that the gloss has changed slightly.
▼ And for this kind of scratches that are not particularly deep, the effect of the polish is still relatively obvious, the original scratches are basically only shallow a little mark, and because the degree of grinding is not deep, the gloss of the entire panel is not much different, the scratches basically disappear after polishing, of course, you can still see it if you look closely~ But it is not as conspicuous as the original.
▼ And the original very slight scratches, the effect is still obvious, through simple polishing, about 2-3 minutes, you can dispose of the slight scratches, and basically will not have any effect on the original gloss, the effect is still good.
▼ Let’s see how 3M performs next, the same is a relatively deep No. 1 scratch, after applying polish, grind with a cotton cloth, 3M polish for such a deeper scratch, is also more helpless ~
▼ The deeper No. 2 scratch gave me a certain surprise, although the shot was a little blurry, but I can still see that the original more obvious No. 2 scratch, after about 5-8 minutes of grinding, the scratch is like a shadow, do not look closely, in fact, it is not easy to see.
▼ The shallowest No. 3 scratch is that part of it has completely disappeared, and the surface of the piano paint has not changed much, and there is a slight difference in gloss, I believe that it should basically disappear after wiping with a brightener such as dial wax.
▼ This is a cotton cloth after grinding, and the cotton cloth does not seem to be stained with too many plastic traces, probably because I polished this piece later, and my arm was relatively weak.
▼ This is clearer, the darker cloth on the left is used by QUIXX polish, while the one on the right is the one pictured above, the cotton cloth used in 3M polish.
▼Let’s take a look at the polishing effect of the piano paint veneer on the Cruze. The first comparison is the lighter scratch. After grinding with QUIXX polish, basically the shallow part of the scratches are also treated relatively cleanly, only the darker section marked by the green circle is not disposed of, I believe that it can be cleaned up after further polishing.
▼ For scratch No. 2, the effect of the same treatment is also good, basically after a long scratch treatment, only the last bit remains, I believe that it should be completely processed after polishing again.
▼ For the relatively deep No. 3 scratch, the same treatment is relatively weak~ After about 10 minutes of polishing, it is still relatively clear.
▼ Let’s also look at the situation of 3M on such scratches, for the relatively shallow No. 1 scratch, after about 5 minutes of polishing with 3M polish, basically except for a little deeper part, the rest of the scratches are disposed of.
▼ For the deeper No. 2 scratch, I don’t know if it’s because of the location or because after more than two hours of polishing and taking photos, the physical strength is seriously exhausted, and the treatment effect is not good, or maybe it’s because my hands trembled when I made the scratches, and the scratches were too deep?
▼ And this already deep No. 3 scratch, the result is not unexpected, no drama. Can’t handle it.
Summary of effects
Finally there is a summary link, this old driver cheats seem to write not much, but in fact, it is a personal work, but the preparation and testing before and after spending nearly 6 hours, mainly a lot of time spent in the polishing link, pure manual operation, the final effect is generally good, but to perfect repair I feel that there are still certain skills, such as the strength of polishing to operate according to the depth of scratches and so on.
Advantages: For shallow scratches, such as some hard objects unintentional scratches, there will be a better polishing effect, and for deeper, sharp objects caused by deep scratches, in fact, is relatively weak, of course, through sanding, the originally conspicuous scratches, become less conspicuous.
Cons: Purely manual operation, really tiring.
Recommendation: After using the polish, use an interior wax such as dial wax to polish the interior, which can further improve the polishing effect of shallow scratches.
Finally, for whether the interior polish (whether it is QUIXX or 3M) is worth buying, my personal advice is, depending on the hands-on ability of your friends, if the hands-on ability is strong, you can first check the price of the veneer, if like the two products I tested, only about 60, simply buy a new do-it-yourself replacement. After all, a tube of polish still needs about 100!! If the price of the panel that needs to be replaced is higher than that of polish, then try it with polish~!
In addition, in fact, for the scratches of the interior panel, there is also a solution, that is, the use of various stickers, the most popular is the so-called imitation carbon fiber stickers, however, the use of stickers also requires a relatively strong hands-on ability, and the final effect, not very sure, may be a bit of a copycat sense ~ ~ In short, how you choose depends on your preferences~!
painted eggshell
▼QUIXX polish is marked specifically for plastic, more helpless to metal, and 3M is a full-purpose polish, if the hardware at home has been used for a long time with scratches, smudges and the like, you can 3M can also take it to make ~ I wiped the shower faucet at home at will, not to mention, the effect is not bad, wait for the day when you are free, clean up and try.
Finally, as usual, the main sub-town building ~~