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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 02:22 PM
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Default How do you clean rubber and plastic?

Iam trying to clean my chin spoiler and grill delete.. and the thing between the hood and windshield... i used to use armoral.. but for some reason it stained it prety bad.. and i have to repeatedly use armoral to keep up the shine with out that fadded look... does anyone have any other products that won't stain the plastic and rubber on exterior trim?
Old Dec 25, 2005 | 05:45 PM
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it stained it? what do u mean??

i use armoral protectent wipes on my delete and chin spoiler, and i have no complaints

try a mcguires prodcuct......i find them to be top of the line
Old Dec 27, 2005 | 11:24 AM
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Default RE: How do you clean rubber and plastic?

I use WD-40 to clean/remove wax residue from black plastic peices. This would probably work just as well for your need. It cleans it down to the original dull finish, so you'll want to apply some shine back to it (armoral, macguires, etc..) once its cleaned.

Are you sure they are stained from the armoral, or did the armoral just protect and enhance the stain?? Sounds like wax residue under armoral to me. Strip it off/clean it with WD-40 and it will back to black
Old Dec 27, 2005 | 01:04 PM
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not sure... i wax the car every so often but iam prety sure i didn't get any on chin spoiler.. but iam sure wax still somehow got on it.. because my windshields and class on the car is always water proof after i wax the car for some reason. and i didn't touch any of the glass parts with the wax.

i'll try your WD-40 and see if it does the trick. i kinda feel nervous about spraying that stuff so close to my paint. i remember getting WD residue all over my glass once trying to fix the squeeks from rolling up and down the windows.
Old Dec 27, 2005 | 01:50 PM
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Apply the WD-40 to a rag, don't spray it on the part near the car
Old Dec 27, 2005 | 03:36 PM
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Meguiars NXT Protectant works great. Just put it on very lightly.
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