Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

[Sleper]

Does the tire shine attract dirt??? I use 303 Aerospace - similar application, but without the dirt attraction qualities of tire shine....

if you use foaming tire cleaner it does not attract the dirt. If you use the shinny wet look then yes

[Sleper]

I have been told that peanut butter can be used to remove that stubborn white wax residue from black plastic trim.

Has anyone heard of this?

Yes and it does work well

[Sleper]

I use old toilet paper rolls flattened. (look like a "C") then wrap with a micro towel and spray with instant detailer. Makes the best barrel cleaner I have found to date.

[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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Kind of fun to see this thread from 2010 brought back to life.

I bumped it for my own use. A recent comment about our latest LIVE Detailing Class caught my attention as someone mentioned using Peanut Butter to remove dried wax from black plastic trim.




It's not the Peanut Butter - it's the Vegetable Oil. And this is such and old, worn out urban legend.


there is no new thing under the sun



But yeah, keep this thread going or someone start a new one.

[mailman]

Wait a minute. Skippy? SKIPPY!!?? Real men use Jif and Jif only!! And don't even mention that brand with the little transgender elf on the label!!!

[jps832]

I use a thin flexible card, like the cards issued by supermarkets, wrap a microfiber towel around it and spray it with an exterior detailer or waterless wash to clean panel and other seams. Surprising what you can pull out of there.

[DUBL0WS6]

Kerosene on single stage paint