How do you clean the interior metal trim?

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04-20-2015, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Scottish Pete

The Fresno Porsche Dealer had a standard trim piece removed from a car to replace it. They cut the removed standard trim piece to see what it was made of, hearing that it is "just painted plastic" like many on this list claim.
They found that the standard trim piece has a real metal veneer covering it . . . not paint.

It is plastic....it's just been electroplated with a metallic substance. It's formal name is "galvano" plastic...it's like the chrome found on kids plastic models' bumpers etc.