1st Gen R50 Cooper Most liked posts in thread: Scratches on door card plastics—alternatives to replacing?

How deep are the scratches? Maybe you can polish them out with some 1000 grit sand paper and buffing compound.

 

You will want to practice this first on something you don't care about. But you could use a small torch. It will soften the scratches so they will be less noticeable.

 

You can buy leather and vinyl repair kits that include filler compound, graining papers, and a small electric iron for using the graining papers. I've used one with some (but limited) success on my door cards. Not magic, but can often take something from looking like total crap, to just looking like crap.

 

If it's the hard plastic you can repaint it, or disassemble the the panel and replace the parts with some pieces from a used black door panel. I think the plastic rivet heads can be carefully cut off, then use small screws to re-attach the trim.

 

I used this on some vinyl seats a while back. The texture came out okay. Getting the color right was difficult.

 

Ah, thought you were worried about scratches in the textured molded panel. Best solution in your case is to re-paint the painted part of the panel, probably.

Speaker grille has melted bosses, like the other parts. Replacement speaker grilles mount with locking washer-type clips (like held the wheels on a wagon when you were a kid, kinda).

 

Yep or just disassemble it and repaint it instead of replacing.