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Interior/Exterior Best Thing to Clean wheel flairs

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Old 06-06-2003, 03:35 PM
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What is the best thing to clean the plastic on the wheel flairs, and the spoiler, and the rear lower lip ??
 
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Old 06-06-2003, 06:58 PM
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Be sure to check out this thread for information on cleaning the wrinkled black finish of the wheel arches, front spoiler, etc. Here is another article I found on the net that mention using peanut butter as a good cleaner:

Popular Mechanics (look for the mention of peanut butter near the bottom of the article)

Hope this helps!

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Old 06-07-2003, 07:14 AM
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Peanut Butter!

Apply it like wax. If you get any on the paint, rewax the painted area (with your regular car wax). If you get wax on your trim, re-PeanutButter it.

This gets rid of the white wax overwipes that are common on black plastic trim.
 
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Old 06-07-2003, 07:23 AM
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As this is more of detailing question than a mod I'm moving this thread to the Detailing 101 forum.

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Old 06-07-2003, 07:39 AM
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"Simple green" is the a great thing to the plastic, inside the wheel wells and aspecially the wheels & tires. Just a bucket with warm water and a sponge with a brillow pad on side of it and your golden.... won't even scratch.....
 
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Old 06-13-2003, 10:09 AM
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Mothers makes a nice a nice product called Back to Black.


Works good for me.
 
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Old 06-13-2003, 10:17 AM
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>>Mothers makes a nice a nice product called Back to Black.
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>>Works good for me.


But would this work on Michael Jackson? (snort, honk)

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Mothers' Back to Black works great... for a few days. It doesn't actually remove the wax. Within a week or two, the wax smears resurface. Peanut butter does work great; peanut OIL works as well, and is cleaner to work with...

jayoung...
 
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>>But would this work on Michael Jackson? (snort, honk)


 
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I really like a product made by Lexol called Vinylex, it makes the trim really black without looking shiney or greasy and seems to last longer than any of the other products I have ever used and I've used alot of them over the years.

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>>>>Mothers makes a nice a nice product called Back to Black.
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>>But would this work on Michael Jackson? (snort, honk)
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If you are really looking for excellent product, be sure to check out Griot's Garage.

Rubber & Vinyl Dressing



 
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The mothers works very well on a temporary basis. Another I like to use is Meguires vinyl protector. Neither of them will get rid of the wax swirls so I will soon be trying peanut oil.
-Chris
 
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