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Grimm
09-28-2007, 08:35 PM
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?
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/1585/p1020314ao3.jpg

Here is another area showing what the marring looks like (more to the left by the water spots).
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2884/p1020315jo2.jpg

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.
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3622/p1020312wg7.jpg

Dust2Glory
09-28-2007, 09:22 PM
that's pretty cool.... prob more fill in since the glaze has carnuba base in it

Meghan
09-29-2007, 08:23 AM
Its nice when you find other uses... XMT 360 works great on window deflectors and front bug guards.