Can you remove wear lines?

Wear marks on a soft top convertible roof before treatment.Wear marks on a soft top convertible roof after treatment.
Wear marks on a roof, before and after weatherproofing.

Wear marks are a problem with the texture of the roof, and so removing them would require restoring the texture. 

They can be improved by using a lint remover, or even using heat to shrink back the stray fibres, but this is only a marginal improvement.

Re-weatherproofing the roof darkens the entire roof, making them less noticeable overall, but they still can be seen depending on how light is reflecting off the roof.

The photos show a hood before and after cleaning and re-weatherproofing. This hood was very clean, so wear marks weren't highlighted by dirt, however this is a mid-grey coloured hood and so fairly light in colour. (it is actually bi-colour, a mixture of black and white fibres). As you can see, our 2-year coating darkened this soft top considerably, helping to disguise the wear marks. This was done without recolouring.

If you still can't live with this, then a replacement roof is probably the best way to go.

Written by . Last updated 25/08/2022 17:14