scratches

Hello again! You guys always seem to have some great suggestions for me when I'm having a bug problem. My newest issue involves my brakes, or more specifically when I brake. A little while ago I ran over a huge fallen palm tree frond. I tried to avoid it but circumstances lead me right over it...

I have a 2001 new beetle and I notice when I got it it had scratches on the dash, but not the part that's always in the sunlight. Just around the CD player and the AC settings. I was trying to find something that was the same substance as what was coming off under my finger nail when I lightly...