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HERE is the thread for what he did
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You could always get the trim chrome wrapped
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Sounds like a good option. Any photos of this done ?
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May be an option here, ive just spent the last couple of hours cleaning up the rear bumper chrome trim.
Gave it a rub down with 1200 grit wet n dry, followed by a liberal application of Alumagic paste. A quick buff down with microfibre cloth seems to have cleaned it up. How long it lasts is anyones guess
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Seems I remember boiling in simple H2O will cause a surface layer of aluminum oxide to form - a very durable substance. Only trouble is it's a matte gray finish AFAIK.
Yes in the US I bought some "Air Conditioner Coil Cleaner" liquid which turns out is simply a strong sodium hydroxide (lye) and water solution. It foamed up madly and removed 40 years' worth of dirt from my evaporator and condenser coils on the home HVAC, and shined up my dear departed Granma's espresso (moka) pot. Can't one buy lye drain opener in the UK? Haven't experimented much with it as it requires full protective gear which is HOT and cumbersome in the Tennessee heat... and I actually heed warnings to the point of buying a $90 respirator w/ organic vapor filter for this job. Along with industrial rubber sleeve gloves, face shield, etc.. Having worked on an ambulance here in "Hey man, hold my beer and watch this!" country, I've seen some things...
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Yes you can get Sodium Hydroxide drain cleaner here. some have recommended it for cleaning the drains in the scuttle (probably called something different in USA ) but I am not sure I want it near paintwork even under the bonnet(hood) as is (obviously) caustic. By the way, how did the coffee taste?
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Aluminium and Caustic soda is a VERY VERY BAD IDEA! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdRrZH3M5O0
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But look at how CLEAN it is!!
That could be your body work.........
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I don't know what the US equivalent of "scuttle" is ("Sump?) however I do know what the word means, but I know VWs and Audis have a definite problem with their (scuttle) drainage! *My wife is from Germany, moved to the US when she was 13; when I met her 20-odd years ago, she could not say the Al word either way; especially funny since she has two Masters' degrees - and one is biology! (A good old science joke here is to have someone say "aluminum" ten times as though it were a tongue-twister, then ask them what a tin can is made of)... Quote:
In any case I have misunderstood the question - OP is talking about the plastic strips, and I was thinking of the removable window trim that is worn-looking on so many of our cars. I have always wondered how they chrome-plate plastic (assuming they do). There was an episode of "How It's Made" (Canadian TV series) which detailed the process IIRC.
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I've seen comments about people polishing the trim with just WD40 and have tried that myself. It works in some areas but not others. Thinking about it, where it works the damage must be mainly on the surface, so I tried a test area with a thin layer of lacquer topcoat, having cleaned it thoroughly first and it worked quite well. It's the small shiny area in front of the mirror pivot in the first picture below. That trim on the drivers door is only slightly milky. I think a fair bit of the trim on my car is just affected by surface degradation, so I plan to treat all of it, in stages, with clear lacquer. I know some bits (notably the trim under my offside headlight) will not be improved much by that, but I'll give it all a go eventually, I don't have enough lacquer on hand at present to do anything other than small tests. The second picture shows that headlight trim, it was all milky but I treated the centre and right areas. The right improved a lot but the centre highlighted the deeper damage that is shown by the obvious milky streaks.
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chrome, discoloured, oxidised, plastic, tarnished |
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