I just had an epiphany of sorts today. My Bonneville has some horrid black plastic trim that seems to have a painted finish, but it's almost more like hard rubber and looks like crap after a while. Since I bought the car last year it's become embedded with crap, and I found it is pretty easy to marr. I've been trying to think of how I could clean it up without scratching up the finish. Well last weekend I got sick of looking at the speckles on the trim, so I went ahead and used an ultra fine claybar on a test area. Then I waxed it with Collinite 845. The clay did marr the trim some, but the wax shined it up so it looked OK. Fast forward to tonight, and I thought, "Hey, why don't I try my XMT Glaze?" So I rubbed it in with a microfiber, buffed it and voila!
Here is a picture of what a majority of the trim looks like with contaminants. Some of it almost looks like white overspray?
Here is another area showing what the marring looks like (more to the left by the water spots).
And here is the finished test area. It's not show room new, but it looks 100% better. Just a tad bit of marring is evident, but the shine really helps and it's nice and slick. I don't know if the light polishing of the glaze actually reduced the marring, or if it just filled it in, but I am pretty happy with the outcome.
Here is a picture of what a majority of the trim looks like with contaminants. Some of it almost looks like white overspray?
Here is another area showing what the marring looks like (more to the left by the water spots).
And here is the finished test area. It's not show room new, but it looks 100% better. Just a tad bit of marring is evident, but the shine really helps and it's nice and slick. I don't know if the light polishing of the glaze actually reduced the marring, or if it just filled it in, but I am pretty happy with the outcome.
