Best product for buffing scratches out of gauge cluster area?

[ixo]

My new baby has some scratches that must have been a rough test driver. I get her at the dealer with only 20 miles on the ODO, but there was clearly someone who took an aggressive wipe across the cluster with some gritty paper of some sort. The photos don't properly show (tried to use the flash to get it to pick them up), but there one long set of scratched along the whole cluster, and an area with smaller scuffs over the left wide. I reckon there's some polish product I'll need to put on something like 3000 grit sanding cloth and go to work?

Any advice from someone who has fixed this before would be huge, thanks.

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[SnowmanJPS]

Screen protech advertises or shows their product reduces viable scratches of the cluster by installing their film, I did it on mine and it looks pretty good

 

[Kdbradley85]

This is a good question. Like @SnowmanJPS mentions, there are products you can install to protect the screen, and maybe they'll help to mask existing scratches, but I'm curious if anyone out there has found a good polishing compound that will work on the clear plastic. I know I'd want to get out those scratches as best I could before installing anything on top of them, but there may not be a good solution aside from replacing the whole thing . Meguiar's PlastX or similar products seem like they may have some potential, but I've never used them myself. Might be worth a shot! Afterwards, I'd consider trying out the "Screen Protech" that others seem to rave about.

 

[ixo]

I'll report back, but THIS is arriving today:

it specifically calls out gauges:

...fingers crossed. I'll try and get a few before and after shots.

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