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How do you clean rubber and plastic? - 12/25/2005 12:22:05 PM    Vash the Stampede   Posts: 524 Joined: 2/13/2005 Status: offline 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? _____________________________ Pics and Specs Post #: 1

RE: How do you clean rubber and plastic? - 12/25/2005 3:45:55 PM    sandcracker21 Posts: 1781 Joined: 3/17/2005 Status: offline 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 _____________________________ PERFORMANCE Steeda CAI BBK Throttle body BBK Plenum Ford 4.10s Flowmaster 40s Steeda UDP Eibach Pro-Kit Bilstein Shocks/Struts Diablo Tune (in reply to Vash the Stampede) Post #: 2

RE: How do you clean rubber and plastic? - 12/27/2005 9:24:46 AM    sowaxeman Posts: 3897 Joined: 3/31/2005 From: Indianapolis, IN Status: offline 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 _____________________________ Saleen Club Of America - Central Region Director http://www.saleenclubofamerica.com/Central (in reply to sandcracker21) Post #: 3

RE: How do you clean rubber and plastic? - 12/27/2005 11:04:32 AM    Vash the Stampede   Posts: 524 Joined: 2/13/2005 Status: offline 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. _____________________________ Pics and Specs (in reply to sowaxeman) Post #: 4

RE: How do you clean rubber and plastic? - 12/27/2005 11:50:10 AM    sowaxeman Posts: 3897 Joined: 3/31/2005 From: Indianapolis, IN Status: offline Apply the WD-40 to a rag, don't spray it on the part near the car _____________________________ Saleen Club Of America - Central Region Director http://www.saleenclubofamerica.com/Central (in reply to Vash the Stampede) Post #: 5

RE: How do you clean rubber and plastic? - 12/27/2005 1:36:47 PM    pitch   Posts: 131 Joined: 12/16/2004 Status: offline Meguiars NXT Protectant works great. Just put it on very lightly. _____________________________ (in reply to sowaxeman) Post #: 6

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