polish my tail.....
09-06-2002, 04:28 AM
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polish my tail.....
was wondering how i can bring life back into my whale tale. it is faded a bit and all products i have tried turn it a chalky white, its red. ditto with my front bumper.
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09-06-2002, 02:15 PM
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Try Vinylex from Lexol. It restores the black to the rubber, and if it hasn't been treated in a while, the rubber will drink it up. Also keeps wax from making fade marks on the rubber.
09-07-2002, 11:36 PM
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Kyle:
I have a 91 C2 Cabriolet, and I found that the retractable tail, as well as the heaadlight rings were prone to white spots.
So this spring I decided to go the whole nine yards, strip all the old wax from the car that I could and start from scratch.
I went with line of products that Prestige Car Care products sells, but I have no expereince with anyone else, so I cannot give you a comparison to anything.
First, I washed the car using Dawn dishwashing liquid. This was done to strip as much of the old wax as possible. I then went over the car with the Victoria Wax Lite Cleanse. What I noticed, when I worked on the headlight rings and retractable spoiler (tail), that this effectively removed the nasty white spots that I had seen. After cleaning the whole car, I applied a nice coat of the Victoria Wax (Red). The was claims to have a 46% carnuba was content. After all of this, the nasty spots were gone. What I did find, though, was that if I let water sit on the spoiler, like during the rain that occurred at a couple of autocrosses, the spots returned. And I had to repeat the process on the problem areas.
I don't know if anything works better, but I have been happy with the Victoria Wax products, and happy with the Lite Cleanse.
Their URL is <a href="http://www.prestigecarcareproducts.com" target="_blank">http://www.prestigecarcareproducts.com</a> if you are interested in looking at this stuff. Feel free to contact the guy too, as he was very helpful to me.
Good Luck,
Ron
91 C2 Cabriolet
85.5 944 NA
I have a 91 C2 Cabriolet, and I found that the retractable tail, as well as the heaadlight rings were prone to white spots.
So this spring I decided to go the whole nine yards, strip all the old wax from the car that I could and start from scratch.
I went with line of products that Prestige Car Care products sells, but I have no expereince with anyone else, so I cannot give you a comparison to anything.
First, I washed the car using Dawn dishwashing liquid. This was done to strip as much of the old wax as possible. I then went over the car with the Victoria Wax Lite Cleanse. What I noticed, when I worked on the headlight rings and retractable spoiler (tail), that this effectively removed the nasty white spots that I had seen. After cleaning the whole car, I applied a nice coat of the Victoria Wax (Red). The was claims to have a 46% carnuba was content. After all of this, the nasty spots were gone. What I did find, though, was that if I let water sit on the spoiler, like during the rain that occurred at a couple of autocrosses, the spots returned. And I had to repeat the process on the problem areas.
I don't know if anything works better, but I have been happy with the Victoria Wax products, and happy with the Lite Cleanse.
Their URL is <a href="http://www.prestigecarcareproducts.com" target="_blank">http://www.prestigecarcareproducts.com</a> if you are interested in looking at this stuff. Feel free to contact the guy too, as he was very helpful to me.
Good Luck,
Ron
91 C2 Cabriolet
85.5 944 NA
