My factory Bose headunit had TERRIBLE scratches all over it. I decided to take the screen off and polish it!

Before:


The screen simply pops off, but its not extremely easy. You can grab the sides with your fingernails, but it's locked in the middle just above my fingers in the picture. you need to wiggle it a bit and work it off.





I used my Flex 3401 DA polisher along with Meguiars M205 Finishing Polish that I got from DetailedImage.com for my detailing business. I polished all the scratches for a good 10-15 minutes total (stopping frequently, so heat didn't build up).

By polishing, you're wearing away a thin layer of the material you're using it on, enough to get to the level of a scratch. With that said, notice the "VOL" label is gone. This is because I had to polish deep scratches out from near the volume ****. The scratches weren't as bad near the "6CD CHANGER" label, so I didn't spend much time there.

And the final result:






The auto climate control screen, gauge cluster screen, and clock screen were scratched as well, and they polish out very nicely too!

 

That turned out nice ! I want to try to polish a set of turbo taillights I have for my 84 z , but kinda afraid of messing them up.

 

As long as you use some sort of finishing polish and NOT any compounds or heavy-cut polishes, you'll be fine!

 

Looks good...

I might give this a shot now...I have bad scratches all over the gauge cluster screen, so I might try that too.

OP, what kind of pad did you use on the buffer? I'm guessing foam?

 

good stuff...not alot of us like teh bose deck, but definitely good to know

 

That's good ish man. This mod is about this only thing I really like about this headunit.

 

And who says you can't polish a turd.

 

Funny thing is, I dont even have the deck in my car. I have a JVC nav unit. but I have a few friends who havent changed their decks out, so I wanted to see if it works before I suggest they do it.