Novus 7136 Plastic Polish Kit - 2 oz.

If you have ever inadvertently sprayed Windex on clear plastic, you may have discovered that it is not recommended. Many clear speedometer and other gauge clusters are covered with polycarbonate plastic that clouds when hit with ammonia often found in cleansers like Windex. This leaves a water-spot pattern on the polycarbonate that is close to impossible to remove.I recommend this - inexpensive - $14 for the 3-bottle kit of 2 ounces each. So little is needed, the 2-ounce bottles last for years.Oddly, not a lot of elbow grease was needed, either. Just a little dab on a soft cloth cleaned it up. I didn't need to use Step 3.

Works great!

I used these to clean clear acrylic that looked cloudy and scuffed in certain areas and it did the job for me. It wasn’t perfectly clear when I was finished… however it looked much better and that’s all I really wanted. I can recommend!

Holy crap. I scratched my LCD display on my bike with gravel and was just hoping to make it readable again. Scratches are completely gone, looks factory new.

Unfortunately this cannot be used to remove scratches from sunglasses.

I recently got a really good deal on a Galaxy Note 8.0. tablet.The reason was the lens cover for the camera had major scratches, really deep and the photos came out as if you had a “soft lens” on it.Like for 1980’s glamour photography.Usually you can just replace the plastic lens cover, I have done it before on a galaxy S4 phone. So I bought it and after much searching found no lens covers for sale that would work for the Note 8. Only choice was to buy the entire back case, for too much money.So onto Amazon I went looking for something to polish the lens cover.I have up-loaded a photo showing the before and after, it is a pretty dramatic difference.First off, I read many of the reviews for the NOVUS Plastic Polish and saw many that said they never even used the #3 Heavy Scratch Remover.I think because of the amount of scratches I had, this was the one that really removed the deep scratches and the haze.At first I tried to use the cloth that came with it, and just my finger, I started with #2 thinking #3 would be too harsh, but I soon realized that this way was not going to do it. Or maybe it would have worked but it would take many, many hours of rubbing.I used my Ryobi 5 in. Random Orbit Sander, and a cotton cloth cut to fit on it.I really don’t think you could achieve what I did with out one, the whole process took about 45 minutes. I taped up the back cover with painter tape to protect it while buffing. I had to run it in short sets, like 30 seconds a full speed then stop and make sure the lens cover was not getting too hot. I would add a very small amount of water to the cloth then some more #3. But slowly I could see the outer edges of the scratched area getting smaller and smaller. I kept the process up until almost all of the haze was gone, there was a small spot (size of a pin head) on the outer edge that would not effect the camera’s image.I then changed out the cloth and began the process again with the #2. There were noticeable swirl marks from the #3 but still much clearer than it had been, I would have been happy with that. But after the 3rd stop to add dabs of water and more #2, the small spot that was left over from #3 was gone. I kept it up until it looked like nothing was changing; it was not getting any clearer.I removed the painters tape, and started the clean-up process. Peeling the tape up and using the #1 cleaner on the back of the tablet and ending with the lens cover. The results were way more than what I expected, the lens cover was polished and shiny, the camera’s photos looked great. Even the decorative metal ring that is around the lens cover was shining.So to wrap it up the NOVUS Plastic Polish is capable of amazing results, but you might need to have some other tools to really get the most out of it, namely a random orbit sander or a small buffer. The RYOBI sander I used does 12,500 orbits per minute, if you moved your finger once every second across the area you wanted to polish, it would take a person 3.5 hours to do what this sander does in 1 minute. Or 5 minutes using a sander would be the equivalent of 17.5 hrs by hand.

I bought this to remove scratches on the firing of my ATV, decided for this because there is a picture of a utility tractor on the ad, so I figured plastic is plastic after all, the scratches were fine but can be felt when I slide my nail on them, I didn't want to go with a car product because I was afraid of causing more damage. Applied first the heavy scratch polisher, then the fine one, ended up with the same scratches but with a haze/dull finish that couldn't be removed either by hand or machine. Ended up using 3M car products to restore the plastics but still can see some hazing when I looks from an angle. I'm not happy with this products, the hard scratch looks like 3M buffering/rubbing compound, the fine looks like 3M polishing compound and is missing the 3rd that is the finishing compound. the cleaner is just a solution of water and some sort of silicone, didn't clean the haze or the surfaces. I don't recommend this product at least for vehicle/ATV plastics.

works as advertised