Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

**MobolWerks** · 03-05-2010, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by tommy grantham

.HARD WORK

Whats are those white lines on your ragtop???

**MobolWerks** · 03-05-2010, 09:41 PM

Maybe its the sweat from all your hard work

**Dubbin1** · 03-14-2010, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Mike.Phillips@Autogeek

If you have an open jar of peanut butter that's been used, usually you'll see some clear liquid pooling on the top of the peanut butter, this is vegetable oil,

And all this time I thought it was peanut oil

**Rsurfer** · 03-14-2010, 03:41 PM

DLB
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I like your swirl remover.

**Da Fats** · 03-20-2010, 04:07 PM

8 once poli-seal + 1 once opti-seal= extra protection from poli-seal

I use this to buff and seal all exterior glass and smooth plastic parts, it works phenominally to clean any and all stains on the plastic trim around windows/windshield, plastic mirror housing's ect ect...

PB's trim restorer for all the textured plastic, buffed off after 30+ min soak time to bring back the trim...

Try um... nothing beats em yet

**TLMitchell** · 03-20-2010, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by Mike.Phillips@Autogeek

If I had a jar of peanut butter for every time I've posted the reason why peanut butter is used to remove polish and wax residue I would have a pantry full of peanut butter...

The crunchy is tough to get out of nooks and crannies. Don't ask...

I discovered by accident ONR makes bedliners look new. No matter how much I scrubbed or what APC I used bedliners still looked dingy. If someone's got to walk on 'em, especially in the rain, I don't want to dress them. I spilled some ONR mix on a tailgate liner and when I wiped it up I was amazed!

One I've appropriated from a participant on another Forum, AA Tire Foam isn't so hot on tires, IMO. It works great on underhood pads, blackens 'em up and has some real nice cleaning properties.

Around the house: since Johnson Wax discontinued Jubilee kitchen and appliance wax I've been looking for a replacement to no avail. UQW works primo... nice on mirrors and windows too.

TL

**Little OCD** · 03-21-2010, 05:16 AM

If you have alot of baked on bugs or splatters on your front bumper or windshield, take a water soaked beach towel and lay it flat on the effected area 20 minutes prier to rinsing the car for a wash. The water will soak into the bug leavins and soften them up for quick and easy removal. I have been doing this for years to remove bugs from my motorcycle and plastic faceshields on my helmets.

**Nappers** · 03-21-2010, 07:19 AM

Having my detailing products shipped to my work address and smuggle them home!

Some good tips here though!

UQW on windows....I used UQD but it made the windows streak a lot.

I did use M205/polishing pad on glass with bad water spots that clay wouldn't touch and they turned out awesome.

**O.C.Detailing** · 03-21-2010, 08:46 AM

Here's a secret a TON of people will get good use out of.

If you use the Meg's twins, 105/205, and you're having a hard time removing M105 from paint after polishing, put a couple of drops of M205 on your pad along WITH the 105 and polish. It makes the 105 MUCH easier to wipe off, reduces dusting a bit and gives 105 a longer work-time.

Turtle-wax Bug and Tar remover on a microfiber towel has been the best bug-gut removal product I've used to this date, thanks to John (VR8) for both of these tips. They do work.

Mike Phillips · 10-26-2020, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by Mike Phillips

The Peanut Butter trick is actually a trick that misses the mark...

Somehow, somewhere, someway someone posted about using Peanut Butter to remove polish and wax residue and the post spread from there... it continues to this day.

Here's the skinny...

If you have an open jar of peanut butter that's been used, usually you'll see some clear liquid pooling on the top of the peanut butter, this is vegetable oil, it's the vegetable oil in the peanut butter that helps to break-up and dissolve polish and wax residue and also turn faded trim a darker color which will also act to mask the problem.

Here's an old home-remedy for removing gum out of hair, which is a problem that sometimes happens to little kid, or how to get chewing gum out of carpet which is a problem usually caused by little kids, take and work some vegetable oil into the gum and it will act to dissolve it so instead of being a difficult, medium to remove it will break-up and then can be pulled out of or off of whatever it's stuck too...

If I had a jar of peanut butter for every time I've posted the reason why peanut butter is used to remove polish and wax residue I would have a pantry full of peanut butter...

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