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Bootpolish?

-- Malc

If you keep on using it!

Tyre gel works very well, lasts for a couple of weeks with a "wet glossy" look, and quite a bit longer with a black matt look.

This may sound really odd but over on a US detailing forum, all the guys there are ranting on about the outstanding results they are getting from......

wait for it.....

Peanut Butter.

I have yet to work out if they just mean the oil or something else but at the moment, it seems that Americans are all out smearing SunPat all over the sides of their cars :-)

Well, they use earth to polish the paint, so I suppose it's logical enough.

Baby oil. Really.

Si

He knows... one day, whilst clutching a bottle, and being distracted in other ways, he managed to spill a bit on his gimp suit, and was amazed at the Sealion-esque result.

HTH

-- JackH

Yeah, would have said exactly the same thing myself.....!

Have you got a fecking camera in here somewhere??

And FYI it was walrus-esque.

Si

ROTFL.

Ew... what an image... :'(

-- JackH

I have actually been over to the forum and asked what the score is.

It is not that the peanut butter (or the peanut oil in it) restores the colour.

The reason is that often, the trim goes grey because of it's reaction to the wax used when polishing the car. The peanut oil is actually very good at removing said wax.

So before you start trying to colour your trim, you might want to see if it is just the wax from the car wash that has made it look grey.

Simoniz do bootpolish for cars. Seriously, it's black toothpaste-consistency stuff and very good. Only for black plastic trim though.

toothpaste-consistency

I just cleaned my briefcase with one of those sponge on the top of a bottle type of shoepolish. Worked a treat, so I reckon it would work on car trim.

-- Malc