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Old May 20, 2017 | 09:10 PM
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Despite the use of expensive microfiber cloth I am starting to see early swirling on the interior piano black trim.
I want to fix and then protect it before it becomes more noticeable.
Does anyone have any recommendations?

Ps. My own research has raised a few possibilities with products like "Klasse all in one"
Finally any thoughts on using ceramic coatings like cquartz to coat interior trim
 
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Old May 20, 2017 | 11:45 PM
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the only gloss black in my cabin is immediately around the gearshift and door switches...is this what you're referring to?

ceramic coatings get swirls too...that's not your answer.
 
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Old May 21, 2017 | 12:31 AM
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I'm fairly sure the piano black F-Type interior trims are clear coated. On other cars, including the clear coated woodgrain interior panels on my XFS and XFR, I have used two different clear coat scratch removers to good effect - Nu Finish Scratch Doctor and Meguiar's PlastX.

Edit - this inspired me to clean up the piano black bits in the F-Type, as I had never really tackled the fine scratches in them.
PlastX got 95% out, but left some fine marks and cloudiness, mainly around the sound system on/off button.
Finished off the job with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, which got 95% of the remainder out and removed all the cloudiness.
It's possible that Ultimate Compound is all you need unless the scratches are really bad.
 

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Old May 21, 2017 | 01:38 PM
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I'm fairly sure the piano black F-Type interior trims are clear coated. On other cars, including the clear coated woodgrain interior panels on my XFS and XFR, I have used two different clear coat scratch removers to good effect - Nu Finish Scratch Doctor and Meguiar's PlastX.

Edit - this inspired me to clean up the piano black bits in the F-Type, as I had never really tackled the fine scratches in them.
PlastX got 95% out, but left some fine marks and cloudiness, mainly around the sound system on/off button.
Finished off the job with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, which got 95% of the remainder out and removed all the cloudiness.
It's possible that Ultimate Compound is all you need unless the scratches are really bad.
Thanks - that sounds like it would do the trick - they aren't bad but I want to keep it that way
 
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Old May 21, 2017 | 03:23 PM
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Megs ScratchX works well on the Piano Black bits, inside and out.

I usually coat it with a good carnuba wax afterwards, but it will scratch if you just breath on it!
 
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Old May 21, 2017 | 09:29 PM
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3M Plastic scratch remover #39017 works well.
 
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