Forever Black product troubles on Chevy Avalanche

[Soap Monkey]

Attached is a picture of a plastic reconditioning that I performed on a customers Chevy Avalanche. As you can see it's been something of a source of contempt. My question is


Does anyone know why this would have happened?

Does anyone have suggestions on removal of product?


I'm wondering if this could have had to do with the number of layers I had to apply to make an even coat (7, in case you were wondering).

[GenesisCoupe]

I have to restore trim on a 2002 Avalanche in a week or so..now i'm scared. was planning on using CQUK as the coating...

Not sure how that would happen though. Never had that issue.

[eaglefan]

I own a 2005 avalanche. 5 years ago when I bought it I did the plastic on it. I used tuff shine plastic restore kit with the clear coat. Scrubbed it many times with the tire cleaner to get all of the other crap off of it. Its held up great for me.

[davey g-force]

Yikes!

What did you use exactly, and how did you apply it?

[Soap Monkey]

after washing and drying I taped off the area and applied the forever black with foam brushes and pads. The real problem is the customer would like the service redone, but I don't know that re-applying would lead to the same result. Any suggestion would be excellent!

[Mike Phillips]

In my July 3-day class and my September 3-day class I used extremely neglected Chevy Avalanches to teach two things,

Production Detailing
Plastic Trim Restoration

I have not had time to get the before and after pictures from the September class onto the forum but I do have a FULL write-up for the Production Detailing Class in July.

For my money and time, the way to go is with Solution Finish. The KEY however is you really need clean plastic to start with. It's best if someone else has not already applied other products as they can hinder the Solution Finish from properly migrating into the plastic and bonding to the plastic.

Check it out here...


How to do high quality production detailing - Your largest market!


p.s.

To get the plastic clean, I teach machine cleaning using Cyclo brushes on Porter Cable polishers. Hand scrubbing works but you get tired and when you get tired you don't scrub as well as a machine that runs on electricity and never gets tired.

[Setec Astronomy]

after washing and drying I taped off the area and applied the forever black with foam brushes and pads.

So you just used car wash? The usual prep for doing any kind of trim restore would be to use an APC or tire cleaner with a medium-stiff brush, a good rinse, then an IPA wipedown. You want to remove any old dressing, wax, dirt etc. from the surface and down into the texture of the plastic.

When I say tire cleaner, some people like to use the Tuf Shine tire cleaner for this.

[Soap Monkey]

Gotcha, so I probably need to prep the surface better. Regarding removal I suppose any medium bristle brush will work?

[dcjredline]

To me that trim looks dried out. Where are you from?

[Soap Monkey]

Mid-Florida, the happiest place on earth