Cleaning/renovating lux rear spoiler

[stjohnsmythe]

Me again []

Just wondering what everyone recommends using to clean up/renovate the standard rubber lux rear spoiler. I presume back to black or something similar?

 

[FistsOfHam]

I used Autoglym bumper care on mine, brought it up to a nice black and also beads the paint off of it nicely. Still looks good several months later. The car doesn't go outside very often though.

 

[Peter Empson]

I too have found bumper care to be good, the spoiler on my 944S was quite bleached and this has bought it back pretty well, better than anything else I tried. I also like the wonder wheels tyre and trim dressing fluid, it's nicer to apply than the slimey AG stuff and lasts pretty well, but wouldn't restore the black quite as well as the AG.

 

[andy watson]

Smooth peanut butter, excellant results works on all rubber trim.

 

[944 man]

hink of the smell though... DO NOT WANT! []

 

[homesea]

Nice post on RR about peanut butter and other products to clean black trim up:
http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=60592

 

[Pastry]

ive used AG bumper care; its ok but doesnt last that long imo. i'm gonna try linseed oil next.

 

[xenon]

Kiwi Black Shoe Polish. Perfect.

(think about it; it's a black-coloured wax. What could be better?)

 

[ocallen]

I've used AutoGlym tyre and rubber conditioners and the tyre one had the better result.

Strangely though the upper surface of the rubber is marked right in the middle of the spoiler as if there had been a fitment resting on it at sometime like a rear high density brake lamp, any ideas anyone ?

 

[ocallen]

I'm wondering if my spoiler that I've described in the previous post may have been fitted second hand and came off a car that had a high density rear lamp fitted for another market, does anybody know if this is possible ?

 

[944 man]

Ive only ever seen cars imported from California, which can be different to other American models; but their brake lamp was fitted to the top of the inside of the hatch glass.

Simon

 

[ocallen]

It's such a wierd marking on the rubber, dead centre, right up against the glass and perfect straight lines as if something had been tightly fitted to it for several years.

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: andy watson

Smooth peanut butter

OK, so assuming that I was to try this ... how do you do it? Grab a lump of the stuff and rub the spoiler with it? Smear it on, in a layer on the surface, as you might if you were spreading it on toast? (It wouldn't go too far if you did this.)

I can see the logic in it, but the consistency seems wrong to be smearing it on parts of cars.


Oli.

 

[944 man]

If you can bear the smell, then get smooth and not crunchy.....