Cleaning piano black bits of my Seltos: How I found a simple solution

It's a product to remove scratches from glass surfaces, but quite effective on glossy plastics as well.

BHPian Col Mehta recently shared this with other enthusiasts:

Piano black plastic - one of the pain points present in modern automobiles. Looks great on day one, not so much later. It's a dust, fingerprint and scratch magnet which requires constant cleaning. Unfortunately the Seltos is also plagued with it, thankfully though, it is used mainly on the gear lever console. However it keeps getting new scratches even after we being very careful with it.

So had to find a solution and stumbled upon this plastic watch scratch remover polish on Amazon which has some positive reviews. It's a product to remove scratches from glass surfaces, but quite effective on glossy plastics as well, as seen in one of the YT videos.

It's quite a small package. Picture for reference:

Happy to report that the results are quite satisfactory. Not at the professional level, but good enough for a two minute job. One needs a little drop of polish on the plastic and apply it with a foam applicator in circular motion for a couple of minutes. It works really well on minor scratches and swirl marks. Deeper scratches will need more than one application.

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Our Seltos is going great otherwise! No niggles, no complications, just a blissful ownership experience so far. Touchwood. With over 12k kms on the Odo, the engine feels more refined and responsive. The TC gearbox is ever so smooth and trouble free. Will change the engine oil at about 13.5k kms (5k kms after the last change). Closing with a few random shots.

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