In this video I show you how to restore old soft touch plastic parts by removing the coating and repainting the parts using only simple tools and products! This transformation was performed on my 1999 BMW 316i.
Best method so far! Tried 5 or 6 different methods, this one was the best by far! Be careful to not let the product sink for more than 5min, otherwise it will turn grey/white
Very nice repair. I also bought the same painting products as you did. Motip is a good company. I will try tomorrow on a Renault Laguna 3 to pour very hot water over the center console (which is full of this crap soft coating) to see if the soft coating will flake away. That car has a hopeless interior and very, very rattly.
Can't wait to hear from you if it worked with the hot water trick, keep me posted! As for the paint choice, it is indeed a good brand and I always got great results using motip. If I remember correctly, the laguna 3 has quite a lot of soft touch coating so I wish you good luck and thank you for watching my videos🙂
I have tried your approach on some test pieces of plasic and found that as the colour is black the resulting surtace shows up scratches very easily,, more so than the original soft touch - I have tried matt lacquer on top also but this doesn't improve things. How is your interior holding up?
Hi Jaap, I'm sorry that this method did not work for you, to be honest I was worying about the same thing before I did it but after thurough testing with nail scratches I did not see any visible scratches apear, to be fair I haven't tried it with any metal object but but in general the finish on my parts stayed the same ever since. Maybe its a different paint or a different type of plastic?
The issue with these solutions is that in both casses the finish won't be as durable as a painted surface, and they'r also more expensive but sure it could work🙂
moi j'ai poncé direct mais sur les baguettes de finition + le plastique du levier de vitesse. pour le petit tiroir en soft touch je vais reessayé car j'ai pas assez poncer je crois, j'ai pas obtenu l'aspect lisse.
Well, you just made my day🙂 i'm so happy you liked it🥲 i'm really apreciate your comment and i'm happy to hear positive feedback from my work thank you for watching my videos🙂
We accidentally discovered that some of the interior finishes on the plastic parts (the shift knob trim particularly) lifted after we dropped hand sanitizer on it and let it sit without cleaning it up. I wonder if simple isopropyl alcohol would work as well or better than oven cleaner.
Well, i'm glad you asked because I thought the same thing but it turns out that alcool has no effect on soft touch plastic, I tried it out before using oven cleaner and it did nothing , maybe if you let the parts sit in alcool for a while that it will eventually become softer but i'm not sure...
I tried alcohol first but in my case it had no effect on the soft touch coating unfortunately... oven cleaner is much stronger and does not damage the plastic underneeth
I have had good results removing the sticky paint with isopropyl alcohol as well, it leaves a scratch-free surface ready for priming and painting. We used that kind of paint on equipment ment for use on a ship's bridge, but man, that became just a sticky goo after 8-10 years.. Also, for better scratch resistance, you may consider 2k paint.
