Plastic panel repair

J

Joe's Notchback

Looking for advice on how to fill scrapes and gouges on plastic interior panels and
still have the factory texture too them. The panel have PP on the back side.
Here's a picture of what I'm looking at now.
 
Haven't done much hands on work with textured coating, but there are a few methods that can be used.
First you want a good cleaning. There are dedicated plastic cleaning products, but you can read their msds sheets to see their makeup. I might do xylene as a first wipe, then denatured or isopropyl alcohol; & soapy water with dawn as a final.
​PP is polypropylene.
High spots can be scraped or sanded off first.
There are some products I've seen, such as dash repair, that have fillers & a textured sheet to press against the surface to try to match the texture. Another similar method I've done on certain textured plastics is heating the area & pressing a metal textured item against it.
Other than that is sanding the worst of it down & respraying most or all of the part with a product such as SEM surface texture spray [forget exact product name].
Then finally spray entire panel with SEM adhesion promoter & color.
Urethane supply company is one source of plastic repair product & info. Forums for vehicles such as chevy avalanche may have some repair info
 
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