Well I've read a few times on the forum a neat little trick to liven up the interior easily, but I doubt that it's well known to all. SO, as our SCs age, our wood trim starts to fade and such. FEAR NOT!

Hit your wood grain with a little rubbing compound, give it some elbow grease, buff it away. Then hit it with some plastic polish (or even just Scratch Out) and give it a little more elbow grease. Then sit back and enjoy your results.

I just did it on my car for the first after reading it earlier in a thread, man the wood trim looks factory new, and it really shines! It seriously made my interior look so much different, just by having new looking wood! So do it, it takes 5 minutes!!



edit: I am going to try this rubbing compound trick on other plastic surfaces interior wise as well, such as: vents, stereo facade, shift bezel, gauge cluster bezel, light lenses etc. I'll update you guys with the results!

 

sweet!! i will try that on my sc tomorrow!!
give us some updates!!

 

thanks for the hint im going to try it tomorrow!

 

Picture perhaps? Mine is getting a tad faded....

 

hmm i didnt take any pics of it before, so I could only give you an after shot, let me find my camera I'll see what I can do

 

Here are some pics that I just snapped. Notice I painted my door wood panels black, I really like how it looks and will be doing the middle dash piece soon enough!

 

Wow! that looks great

 

I MUST AGREE I will be doing that too sometime then .

 

Could you post on how you removed the trim off of the dash?

thanks

 

I didn't take the trim off of the dash, and from what I read its a really involved process and takes quite a while. You have to remove the top part of the dash, etc. I just buffed it while the trim was still in place. If you look close, you can see some polish on the dash just by the center vent

When I paint, I won't remove it from the car. I will just mask everything off and spray it.

 

You'd wanna take it off if you're going to spray it

 

what brand of products did you use?? looks good!!!

 

i want that sticker.. haha

 

do you need to remove the wood trim from the car to do this or can you do it how it is?

 

This is something that is definitely on my to-do list.
Looks good. From all the pictures i've seen of the members who did this, the trim pieces seem to lack luster. Anyway to prevent this?