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🙂
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🙂
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 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?
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.
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
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🙂
soak in very hot(not boiling but very hot) water for a few minutes then you can strip it very easy. Thank me later.
I will certainly try that method next time, thanks for the tip🙂
Beautiful video with clear instructions and perfect results. I love the epic music as you reveal the before and after. Thank you!🙏
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🙂
That's really satisfying to watch, good job dude❤️🔥
Thanks for the feedback, i'm glad you liked it mate🙂
Just pour boiling water on the parts, the coating just shrinks and then rubs off. quick and easy for me !!
Well that sounds like a much easier way to do it, on what vehicule did you do it? Cause the coating on my parts was really strong...
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
Great video, quality improving everytime!
Thanks man, really means a lot to me🙂
Very nice job,i will try it on my interior soon.thanks for tip
Glad you liked it, and good luck🙂
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🙂
Great video, will be doing this on my 325ci trim!
Really glad you liked it! I wish you good luck, don't hesitate to comment how it went once your done🙂
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 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?
i'm sure the e46, 325i touring i'm waiting for at the moment (i already bought 😃) will get some of this treatment.
😊
Honestly, its the biggest improvement that you can make interriorwise, it makes the interrior look like new again🙂
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.
I poured boiled water over the soft plastic from a Renault Laguna 3 center console. It didn't work. Best bet is to use acetone and a microfiber towel.
I didn't think of acetone but yeah that could work quite well i'll definitely try that next time🙂
its realy cool! thx)
Glad you like it!🙂
Scotch pad might work well for removing coating. Could possibly be too abrasive for the plastic
To be honest, I have no idea because you can't buy that stuff in France but thanks for the tip🙂
What were BMW thinking coating parts with goo.
I will go for water transfer instead of flat black!
Yea that coating was a horrible idea. I did this to my 04 BMW, and other equipment. Rubbing alcohol did the trick.
use technical alcohol for better results
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
Better use alcohol. Fill a bucket and drop the parts inside for 24h, then rinse With fresh alcohol and let dry
Thanks for the tip, i'll maybe try that next time🙂
Honestly i don't know why they used that shit coating, probably for a reason. To protect the plastic from beneath.
Yeah, I don't know why they used it either
This is absouletly not worth the time, scraping all this shit off. just buy new or stick foil over it.
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🙂
i like it, good work.
I'm glad you liked, really apreciate your coment🙂, thank you for watching my videos... Of nee bedankt voor het kijken😉