Herb
Mar 23rd, 10, 10:43 PM
Some folks may not agree with this but - I made my inner fenders, core support and firewall (and everything else under the hood) look like the day I painted them by using a piece of "Never-Dull" metal polish cotton wad about the size of a quarter. It put a perfect streak-free low sheen on those semi-flat black painted surfaces that looks like they were just-painted.
Since my car gets driven on weekends. I never could get the streaks off those semi-flat black surfaces after washing or wiping them with anything to remove the road dust and dirt. And if I did get them clean, they weren't crisp looking. But I accidentally rubbed an area with the piece of wadding I used to polish my aluminum valve covers. Wasn't thinking and rested my hand on the inner fender. When I wiped it off with the micro fiber cloth I was buffing the covers with, the dang inner fender area looked great. So I did another area and achieved the same results. I kept going with that one small piece of polishing wad and detailed all those surfaces. Rubbing them with the polish wad and then wiping them off with micro fiber cloth. Everything under the hood!!! Looks great. I was initially worried about using metal polish on a painted surface. But this stuff is non-abrasive and pretty mild. Has no negative effect on the paint. But like I said, I used the same piece of wadding on everything. The more you use that same piece the better because the less actual metal polish you are applying. The end result is the same on the semi-flat surfaces. Doesn't take much of this stuff to make them appear new.
Try it if you don't believe me in an inconspicuous place, like maybe an inside surface of the core support.
Since my car gets driven on weekends. I never could get the streaks off those semi-flat black surfaces after washing or wiping them with anything to remove the road dust and dirt. And if I did get them clean, they weren't crisp looking. But I accidentally rubbed an area with the piece of wadding I used to polish my aluminum valve covers. Wasn't thinking and rested my hand on the inner fender. When I wiped it off with the micro fiber cloth I was buffing the covers with, the dang inner fender area looked great. So I did another area and achieved the same results. I kept going with that one small piece of polishing wad and detailed all those surfaces. Rubbing them with the polish wad and then wiping them off with micro fiber cloth. Everything under the hood!!! Looks great. I was initially worried about using metal polish on a painted surface. But this stuff is non-abrasive and pretty mild. Has no negative effect on the paint. But like I said, I used the same piece of wadding on everything. The more you use that same piece the better because the less actual metal polish you are applying. The end result is the same on the semi-flat surfaces. Doesn't take much of this stuff to make them appear new.
Try it if you don't believe me in an inconspicuous place, like maybe an inside surface of the core support.